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In mountain swamps &c. New York ! and Massaclmsptts ! north to near 

 tlie Arctic circle. Also in tlic niountains of CJr('n;()ii and N. California, ac- 

 cordinc; to Jhtialas. {Hook. I. c.) June. — Stems 3—1 feet liieh ; the Ktdi- 

 axillary spines scarcely diHerent from the jyrickles. Petioles liairv. Pe- 

 duncles sleniler, nodding, pubescent. Fruit dark purple, unpleasant to the 

 taste. — This species ditlers from the others of this section in its many-llowered 

 racemes. 



§ 3. Stems neither prickly nor spiny : leaves plicate in vernation : racemes 

 several-Jloicercd : calyx campanulate or cylindrical: ovules numerous, in 

 two or more rows : berries unarmed. — Ribksia, Berlandier. {Currant) 



Ribes &. Botrycarpum, ^4. Richard. — Calobotrya, Coreosma, Ceropbyllum tc 

 Rebis, Spach. 



* Flowers greenish. 



17. R. fioridum (L'Her.) : leaves sprinkled on both sides with resinous 

 dots, sliarply 3-5-lobed, subcordate ; the lobes acute, doubly serrate ; ra- 

 cemes pendulous, pubescent ; bracts linear, lonjjer than the pedicels ; calyx 

 tubular-cami)anulate, glabrous; the segments oblong-spatulate, about the 

 length of the tube ; style undivided ; fruit ovoid-globose, black, glabrous. — 

 L'Her. stirp. 1. p. 4 ; Willd. ! spec. 1. ;;. 116(3 ; Torr. ! fl. l.p. 2G7 ; DC. I 

 prodr. 3. p. 482 ; Guimp. Otto, S^- Hayne, holz. t. 1 ; Hook. ! fl. Bor.-Am. 

 1. p. 233; Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 160. R. nigrum /8. Linn. R. recurva- 

 tum, Michx.! fl. 1. p. 110. R. Pennsylvanicum, Lam. diet. 3. p. 49. 

 Ribesium nigrum &c. Dill. Elth. t. 224. Coreosma florida, Spach! in 

 ann. sci. nat. {ser. 2) p. 9. 



In woods, from Canada ! (lat. 54^) to Virginia and Kentucky ! April- 

 May. — Stems 3-4 feet high. Leaves with 3 spreading acute lobes, and 

 son^etimes two smaller ones near the base, pubescent beneath. Flowers 

 rather large, yellowish-green. Style sulcate. Berries inferior in size and 

 flavor to the Common Black Currant of the gardens (which this species 

 closely resembles). 



18. R. Hudsonianum (Richards.): branches erect; leaves .3-5-lobed, 

 glabrous above, mostly pubescent and sprinkled with small resinous dots 

 beneath ; the lobes spreading, somewhat ovate, acute, coarsely serrate ; 

 racemes erect; bracts setaceous, much shorter than the pedicels; calyx 

 companulate, pubescent externally, deeply 5-parted ; the segments lanceo- 

 late-oblong; style undivided; ovary obovate, dotted with glands; fruit 

 globose, black, glabrous. — Richards. ! appx. Frankl. journ. ed. 2. ]). G ; 

 Hook. ! fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 233. R. nigrum, Richards. I. c. ed. 1. (excl. 

 syn.) 



0. racemes longer ; calyx nearly glabrous. Iluok. I. c. — R. pctiolare, 

 Dougl. in hort. trans. 7. p. 514, ex Hook. 



Hudson's Bay to the Rocky Mountains, north to lat. 57°, Richardson ! 

 Drumniond! &c. /?. Mountains of Oregon above Kettle Falls, Douslas. — 

 Leaves palmately lobed about to the middle, scarcely ever cordate according 

 to Richardson, but they are uniformly so in our specimens. Flowers very 

 small, white. — A very distinct species, resembling R. nigrum in tlie fruit, 

 the peculiar odor of the plant, &c. 



19. R. prostratum (L'Her.) : stems reclined ; leaves deeply cordate, gla- 

 brous, 5-7-lobed ; the lobes somewhat ovate, acute, incisely doubly serrate ; 

 racemes erect, slender ; bracts small, much shorter than the bristly-glandular 

 pedicels ; calyx rotate, the segments obovate ; style deeply 2-cleft ; petals 



