THE SMALL FRUITS OF NEW YORK 2Jl 



(i) var. intermedium Spach. Rehder. 



Chrysobotrya intermedia. Spach /Ihh. Sa. ATo/. 2nd Ser. 4:19. 1835. 



R. intermedium Spach. Janczewski Bui. Ac. Sci. Nat. Croc. 86. 1910. 



R. aureum intermedium Spach. Janczewski 1. c. 91, fig. 2. 1910. 



R. aureum Jrudu rubro Hort. and R. aureum acerifolium Hort. Spaeth in Janczewski 



1. c. 86. 1910. 

 Racemes spreading, sepals not revolute, spreading. Fruits purplish brown to black. 

 (2) var. leiobotrys Koehne. Rehder. 

 Glabrous throughout; sepals reciu^ed, not revolute. Fruit black. 



Ribes aureum. Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. 164. 1814; Heller Mtiliknbergia 1:69. 1904; 

 Coville & Britton A^. Am. Fl. 22:204. 1908; Rehder in Bailey Stand. Cyc. Hort. 

 5:2958. 1916; Berger A^. Y. Sia. Tech. Bui. 109:41. 1925. 

 R. jasminiflorum. Kga.v6h Sv. Landtbr. Akad. Ann. g'.i^^T,. 1823. 

 R. flavum. Berlandier Mem. Soc. Gen. III. 2:60. 1826. 

 R. tenuiflorum. Lindley Trans. Hort. Soc. London 7:242. 1828; Loudon Arb. 2:990, 



fig. 744. 1844; Janczewski Bid. Ac. Sci. Nat. Croc. 86. 1910. 

 R. inodorum. Link //awd. 2:7. 1831. 



Chrysobotrya Lindleyana. Spach ylwM. Sci. Nat. 2nd Ser. 4:20. 1835. 

 R. aureum tenuiflorum. Torrey Pacif. R. R. Rep. 4:88. 1857; Card Bush-Fr. 483, 



fig. 109. 1897; Janczewski Bui. Ac. Sci. Nat. Crac. 91. 1910. 

 Shrub of about 2 m, young shoots red. Leaves of cions about 5 cm long and 6 cm 

 wide, orbicular- reniform to obovate; 3-lobed, with a cuneate, rounded or subcordate base, 

 lobes subobtuse, little toothed, petioles shorter or about as long as the blades. Racemes 

 3-7 cm long, spreading, 5- to 15-flowered; bracts oblong to obovate, 5-12 mm long; pedicels 

 shorter. Flowers more or less fragrant; receptacle slender, 5-9 mm long and about 1.5 

 mm wide; sepals spreading, 5-8 mm long, upright in the faded flower; petals scarcely half 

 as long, oblong, erose, orange-red at last. Berries globose, red or black, variable in size, 

 6-8 mm across or more. 



West North America; from Washington to California, eastward to 

 Assiniboia, Montana, Colorado, and New Mexico. A smaller and more 

 slender shrub than R. odoratum and with less showy flowers, 

 (i) var. chrysococcum. Rydberg F/. Nebr. ii'.-ji. 1895. 

 Berries yellow. 



Forms with red receptacles occur in Idaho. A cultivated variety. 

 Golden Prolific, seems to belong to this species. 



GROSSULARIA Toum. Miller Card. Diet. 7th Ed. 1759; Coville & Britton A^. Am. 

 Fl. 22:209. 1908. 



i?o650«ja Berland. Spach /fw/. VVg. 6:180. 1838. 



Ribes Auct. 



Shrubs with tortuous branches and spines at the nodes and often bristly along the 

 intemodes; nodal spines generally in 3, rarely in 5 or more, or solitary or wanting; buds 

 sessile. Racemes few flowered, short; bracts small; pedicels jointed at the base; the bract- 



