550 GROSSULACEiE. Rises. 



spatulate, very small; fruit (and ovaries) clothed -with glandular bristles, 

 red, globose.— L' if er. stlrj). 1. p. 3, t. 2 ; Pursh! jl. 1. p. 163 ; Torr.! fl. 



1. p. 268 ,• DC. ! prodr. 3. p. 482 ; Hook. ! I. c. (cxcl. IS.) R. glandulosum, 

 Ait. Kew. [ed. l)\. p- 279; Richards.! i. c. e.d. 1. R. rigens, Miclix. ! 

 fl.p. 110 ,• Bigel.Jl. Bost. ed. 2. p. 90. R. laxiflorum, Richards. ! I. c. ed. 



2. (excl. syn.) R. trifidum, Michx. ! I. c. 



Hills and rocky places, Newfoundland ! and lliroughout Canada (from 

 lat. 57°) to Pennsylvania! west to Lake Superior! and the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, ex Hook. May. — Stems procumbent, rooting; branches erect: the 

 plant exhaling a faint disagreeable odor, resembling that of Symplocarpus 

 foetida (Skunk Cabbage). Calyx greenish with purplish veins: the petals 

 and anthers often purple. Berries rather large, unpleasant to the taste. 



20. R. laxiflorum (Pursh): leaves deeply cordate, glabrous, 5-7 -lobed; 

 the lobes ovate, acute, incised or doubly serrate ; racemes erect, pubescent ; 

 bracts linear-spatulate, much shorter than the slender glandular pedicels ; 

 calyx rotate, the segments orbicular ; petals broadly flabelliform ; style 

 2-parted ; fruit clothed with glandular bristles, red, globose. — Pursh, fl. 2. 

 p. 731 ,- DC. I. c. R. affine, Dougl. ! mss. ; Bongard ! veg. Sitcha, I. e. j). 

 138. R. prostratum /?. Hook. ! I. c. 



N. W. Coast, Menzies, Douglas, &c. Norfolk Sound, Eschsclvltz ! 

 Sitcha, Bongard! — This plant so closely resembles R. prostratum that we 

 greatly incline to consider it, with Hooker, as a variety of that species. But 

 the petals are very different in shape ; the flowers decidedly larger (although 

 by no means of the size of those of R. floridum, as Pursh states,) and 

 apparently of a purple color. 



■ 21. R. rubrum (Linn.) : leaves subcordate, obtusely 3-5-lobed, pubescent 

 beneath or at length nearly glabrous, serrate, the teeth mucronate ; racemes 

 pendulous, produced from'lateral buds distinct from the leaves; calj-x rotate, 

 the segments roundish ; petals truncate or slightly obcordate ; style very- 

 short, l^-cleft ; fruit glabrous, red, globose. — Linn. spec. 1. p. 200; Engl, 

 hot. t. 1289 ; Wahl. fl. Lapp. p. 65; Richards.! appx. Frank!, journ. ed. 

 2. p. 6 ; Hook. ! fl.. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 232. R. albinervium, 3Iichx. ! fl. 1. 

 p. 110. 



Throughout Canada to the mouth of Mackenzie River, Richardson! 

 Drummond. In damp woods and swamps, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, Mr. 

 Carey ! Sault St. Marie, Dr. Pitcher! and at the sources of the St. Croix 

 River, Dr. Houghton. May-June. — Respecting this species, which appears 

 to be abundant in our northern latitudes, we wholly accord with Richardson 

 and Hooker, as our specimens agree in every respect with the European 

 R. rubrum. 



22. R. resinosum (Pursh): plant clothed in every part with resinous 

 glandular hairs; leaves roundish, 3-5-lobed; racemes erect; bracts linear, 

 longer than the pedicels; calyx flattish; petals obtusely rhomboidal; fruit 

 hirsiite. Pursh! fl. 1. p. 163. 



" On the mountains of North America. Fraser. April-May." Pursh.— 

 The mountains of North Carolina are doubtless meant. We have seen a 

 fragment of this plant in Mr. Lambert's herbarium (under the name of R. 

 Fraseri), and another in that of Sir Wm. Hooker, sent from the Southern 

 States by Mr. Parker. — The figure under this name in Bot. mag. t. 1583, is 

 said by Spach to belong to R. orientale. 



23. R. hracteosum (Dougl.): leaves on long petioles, cordate, deeply 

 5-7 -lobed, sprinkled with resinous dots beneath ; the lobes acuminate, coarse- 

 ly doubly serrate or incised; racemes (sometimes terminal) very long, erect; 

 pedicels rather erect, a little exceeding the spatulate bracts; calyx rotate, 



