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degree of pubescence, the length of the receptacle, its color, and the color 

 of the petals and of the fruits vary a great deal. There is no deciding dif- 

 ference in the structure. 

 A. Receptacle 12-15 mm long; sepals revolute or spreading, not connivent after flowering 



R. odoratum 

 AA. Receptacle 5-9 mm long; sepals 5-8 mm long, spreading, connivent after flowering 



R. aureum 



Ribes odoratxun. Wendland in Bartl. & Wendl. Beilr. 2:15. 1825; Coville & Britton 



A'^. Am. Fl. 22:205. 1908; Rehder in Bailey Stand. Cyc. Hort. 5:2958. 1916; 



Berger N. Y. Sta. Tech. Bui. 109:40. 1925. 

 R. longiflorum Nutt. as synonym in Lindley Bot. Reg. PI. 125. 1816. 

 R. fragrans. Loddiges Bot. Cab. PL 1533. 1829. Not R. fragrans Pallas 1797. 

 Chrysobotrya revoluta. Spach Ann. Sci. Nat. 2nd Ser. 4:2, 19. 1835. 

 R. Oregoni. Henng Hort. Franc. 225, PI. 8. 1872. 

 R. aureum Auct. Lindley Bot. Reg. PI. 125. 1816; Loudon Arbor. 2:989, f. 742. 



1844; Britton & Brown III. Fl. 2:192, fig. 1877. 1897; Card Bush-Fr. 482, fig. 118. 



1898; Schneider III. Hdb. Laubh. 1:416. 1905; Ibid. 2:953. 1912; Janczewski 



Monogr. 333. 1907; Bui. Ac. Sci. Nat. Crac. 82. 1910. 

 R. revolutum Spach. Janczewski Bui. Ac. Sci. Nat. Crac. 84. 19 10. 

 R. aureum grandiflorum f. revolutum. Janczewski Bui. Ac. Sci. Nat. Crac. 91. 1910. 

 R. aureum ginkoefolium Hort. Janczewski 1. c. 84. 1910. 



Missouri Currant, Buffalo Currant, Golden Currant. — Erect shrub about 2-2.5 ™ high, 

 with virgate branches; young branches pubescent, older branches gray. Leaves of cions 

 up to 65 mm long and 75 mm wide, firm of texture, roundish with a straight truncate or 

 slightly reniform base, deeply 5-lobed, lobes obtuse, mostly coarsely 3-toothed or incised 

 at the top; smaller leaves ovate-spatulate, with a cuneate base, 3-lobed, and the lobes 

 obtuse, entire or crenate; petioles pubescent, shorter than the blades. Racemes 4-6 cm 

 long, spreading or pendulous, 5- to 8-flowered; rhachis and bracts pubescent or glabrous; 

 bracts foliaceous, ovate or oval, the lower sometimes 12-15 n^™ long; pedicels shorter, 

 glabrous or puberulent. Flowers bright yellow, fragrant; receptacle tubular, straight or 

 slightly bent, 12-15 mm long, glabrous; sepals oblong, obtuse, 5-6 mm long, revolute or 

 spreading, not connivent after fading; petals 2-2.5 nim long, oblong, obtuse or erose, 

 more or less red, erect. Stamens with oblong white anthers, as long as the petals. Ovary 

 obconical or obovate, glabrous; style very shortly bifid, longer than the stamens. Berries 

 globose or ovoid, 10 mm across or more, black or orange-yellow (forma xanthocarpum 

 Rehder). 



North America; in the great plains east of the Rocky Mountains, from 

 South Dakota to Texas, east to Minnesota and Arkansas. Much culti- 

 vated as a flowering shrub and also as a stock upon which to graft other 

 species of Ribes and Grossularia, usually known in gardens under the wrong 

 name of Ribes aureum. A cultivated variety is known as Crandall. It has 

 larger edible fruits. 



