32 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



40406 to 40496— Continued. 



40485. Hikes stenocakimm .Maxim. Gooseberry. 

 " 7465." 



"Shrub 1 to 2 meters high. Shoots vigorous, clotted or bristling with 

 setiform spines, branches glabrous or bristly with similar spines. Nodal 

 spines ternate, very vigorous, the middle one up to 23 mm. long in the 

 more spiny plants: ternate or quinate and much smaller in the less spiny 

 plants. Leaves small, 3* cm. long. 4 cm. broad. 3 to 5 lobed or 3 to 5 cut, 

 with lobes deeply incised, subcordate or cordate base, glabrous or 

 pubescent, ordinarily dotted with glandular hairs. Flowers rather small, 

 whitish or a little washed with red. glabrous or dotted with hairs, pro- 

 terandrous. Fruit rather large, oblong, 20 to 25 mm. long, 8 to 10 mm. 

 in diameter, glassy, colorless, finally washed with carmine, glabrous or 

 dotted with glandular bristles, borne on a peduncle 4 or § mm. long, 

 crowned by the withered flower contracted into a twisted wisp. The 

 pericarp thick, acid, the seeds few in number. Ripens the end of July, 

 but the fruit hangs till October. Native of northern China, in the moun- 

 tains of Kansu and Shensi. The race with glabrous fruits was discovered 

 in 1872 by Przewalski in Tangut, Province of Kansu; those with his] .id 

 fruits in 1894 by Father J. Giraldi in northern Shensi. The former only 

 has been introduced into our gardens, where it succeeds very well." 

 ( A'. Janczewski, Monographic des Groseilliers, p. 37^.) 



40486. Kikes axtbeum I'ursh. Buffalo currant. 

 "7308. Var. tenuiflorum Jepson." 



"This variety differs from R. aureum in having smaller flowers with- 

 out fragrance and in the fruits being amber colored and translucent, with 

 an acid flavor. It is also a taller shrub, up to 12 feet high. According 

 to Dr. Coville, this is the true R. aureum of Pursh." (II*. ./. Bean, Trees 

 and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. 399.) 



40487. Ribes triste Pallas. Red currant. 

 " 7438." 



"The American form of red currant, a shrub of laxer habit than R. 

 vulgare, the leaves white, with down beneath when young; flowers 

 purplish: fruit red. small, and hard. It is said to be pretty and graceful 

 in blossom in the United States and Canada, where it inhabits cold bogs 

 and woods from New Hampshire to Nova Scotia. It is also native of 

 northern Asia." {W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British 

 I sir.,, ml. 2. p. 409.) 



40488. Ribes ussubiense Jancz. Black currant. 



" 735" " 



" Shrub 1 meter high, much branched, producing subterranean branches 

 (rhizomes) like /,'. aureum. Young shoots subpubescent, dotted with 

 rather numerous yellow glands. Buds whitish. Odor of the plant re- 

 sembling camphor, not at all resembling the black currant. Leaves up 

 to 8 cm. long and broad. " to 5 lobed. the middle lobe very predominant, 

 rather acute, with cordate base, glabrous, not shiny, dotted below with 

 yellow glands. Flowers briefly campanulate, whitish or a little yellowish. 

 pubescent, glandular. Fruit round, as large as a currant, black (greenish 

 blue before ripening), not aromatic, surmounted by a withered flower. 

 the insertion of which is pentagonal rounded. Flesh greenish, slightly 

 sweet subacid, seeds small, ovoid or oblong, with a gelatinous greenish 



