270 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. ribes„ 



short, sometimes wauting. Leaves about an inch long, with 

 rounded toothed lobes ; fietioles shorter than the leaves. Pe- 

 duncles 2 — 3-flowered, smooth ; bracts ovate, amplexicaul. 

 Calyx tubular-campanulate, green, tinged with purple ; seg- 

 ments erect-spreading, obtuse. Petals white. Stamens ex- 

 serted. Style deeply divided into 2 filiform segments. Ber- 

 ries small, pale red. 

 Hab. On mountains. Common in New-England. In the 

 Highlands of New- York. Barratt. 



9. R. oxycanlhoides L.: larger spines subaxillary; smaller 

 ones scattered over the stem ; leaves smooth ; leaves dentate ; 

 peduncles short, about 2-flowered; berries smooth. fVilld, 

 S>ec. I. p. 1159. Lam. Enc. III. p. 351. Pursh Fl.l,^. 

 IG5. /? e m. ($/• S c /i M n. V. p. 506« 



About 3 feet high ; branches slender. Leaves 2 inches long, 

 sub-3-Iobed ; lobes incisely serrate, at length smooth ; fietiole 

 sometimes spinulous. Flowers axillary, solitary, or in pairs, 

 nodding, pale yellow ; fiedicels short. Berries globose, smooth, 

 purplish-blue, subacid. Lam. 



Hab. On rocks. New- York. Pursh. In Pennsylvania. 

 Muh lenber g, 



\Q.R. lacustre Ph.: subaxillary; spines compound; 

 stem on every part hispid-aculeate ; leaves lobed beyond the 

 middle ; petioles villous ; berries racemose, hispid. Pursh 

 Fl. I. p. 165. Po ir. Enc. Meth. il. p. 856. J^utt. Gen. 

 I. p. 140. Roem. <^ Schult.V. p. 506. R. oxycan- 

 lhoides /3. lacustris P ers. Syn. I- p. 252. R. oxycanlhoides 

 Mich. FL I, p. 111. 



Stem 3 — 4 feet high, of a reddish colour, thickly set with 

 prickles. Subaxillary spines a little larger than those on the 

 stem, 4 — 5, united at the base. Leaves deeply cut into 5 

 acute unequal lobes ; segments cut and toothed. Racemes 

 pendulous, loose, 5— 6-flowered; bracts shorter than the glan- 

 dular /zed/ce/s. Calyx rather flat; segments rounded, green- 

 ish-yellow. Petals short, minute, white. Style 2-cleft. Ber- 

 ries round-oblong, hispid, dark brown. 



Hab. In mountain swamps. On the Catskill Mountains, New- 

 York. Kn eve Is. Williamstown, Massachusetts. Dewey. 

 Deerfield, Massachusetts. Coo ley. 



11. R. Cynoshali J acq. : subaxillary spines in pairs; 

 leaves with short lobes, incisely toothed, softly pubescent ; 

 racemes nodding, few-flowered ; calyx erect-campanulate ; 

 berries aculeate. Mich. Fl. I. p. 111. IVi 1 1 d. Spec. I. 

 p. 1159. Pursh Fl.l.p. 166. Ro em. ir S c hull. Y. 

 p. 506. 



FloKoerg green. Berries d^vk brown, and full of thorns. PA. 



