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5. Skunk Currant (Ribes glandidosum Weber), fig. 32. — Low shrubs 

 with prostrate stems and spreading or ascending branches; young herbage 

 sparingly hairy and glandular, with a strong fetid odor when crushed; leaves 

 5- to 7-lobed, heart-shaped, 1^ to 3^/2 inches wide, the margins sharply 

 toothed, the leaf-stems about as long as the blades; flowers 8 to 12, borne 

 along slender ascending stems, 

 white or pinkish, glandular, the 

 petals much longer than broad; 

 berries red, glandular-bristly. 

 (Syn. R. prostratum L'Her.) 



Occurrence. — ISLE royale, com- 

 mon in cedar swamps, bog forests, 

 and on lake shore locks: Mott Is- 

 land; Scoville Point; near Lake 

 Desor. 



6. American Red Cur- 

 rant (Ribes triste Pall.), fig. 

 33. — Straggling shrub with 

 spreading or creeping stems, 

 often rooting where they lie 

 along the ground; leaves thin- 

 nish, roundish, heart-shaped at 

 base, 3- to 5-lobed, the margins 

 coarsely toothed, sinooth above 

 and below or hairy below; leaf 

 stems mostly shorter than the 

 blade; flowers saucer-shaped, 



Fig. 32. Skunk cuirant (Ribes glandulosum) . 



Fig. 33. American red currant (Rihei triste). 



purplish, the tiny petals red, 

 borne on old wood below the 

 leafy tufts in nodding clusters 

 1 to 11/2 inches long; berries 

 red, smooth, not glandular- 

 hairy. Similar to western black 

 currant except for the smooth 

 red berries. 



Occurrence. — MOUNT RAINIER, 

 reported: Chinook Pass, 6,000 feet. 

 ISLE ROVALE, common in moist 

 woods: Mott Island; Sumner 

 Lake; Washington Harbor; near 

 Lake Desor. 



7. Crater Lake Cur- 

 rant (Rtbes erythrocarpiim 

 Cov. & Leib.). — Low, strag- 

 gling shrub, 4 to 8 inches high, 

 with trailing stems rooting at 



