Flora of South Fork of Kings River. 37 



the lower 2-cleft, all irregularly toothed. Flowers in racemes. 

 Calyx saucer-shaped, parted almost to the base, pinkish, hairy. 

 Petals and stamens very small and short. Ovary clothed with 

 glandular, purple hairs. This is between a gooseberry and a cur- 

 rant, but is considered the former chiefly on account of the 

 prickly stems. 



Ribes cereum Dougl. Red Currant. Much branched, with 

 short, stout branches, 1-3 ft. high, without spines or prickles, 

 glandular. Leaves 3-5 cleft, irregularly and sharply toothed, 

 truncate or cordate at base. Flowers in corymbs on peduncles as 

 long as the petioles, 3-9-flowered ; bracts enfolding the ovary, 

 pedicels very short. Cal)^! tubular, white but tinged with pink or 

 green, glandular, y% in. long, the lobes short. Petals orbicular, 

 small. Fruit red, translucent, glandular, sweet but not agreeable. 

 Bubbs Creek. 



Ribes ascendens Eastwood. Wild Currant. Erect shrub 

 3-4 ft. high, slightly glandular, without spines or prickles. Leaves 

 3-lobed with the lobes doubly toothed, petioles hairy at base 

 equaling or exceeding the blades, which are 1-2 in. across. 

 Peduncles erect in flower, curving downwards in age, longer than 

 the leaves and naked to the short spicate racemes ; bracts conspic- 

 uous, longer than the pedicels. Calyx rose-color, campanulate, 

 persisting on the berry. Petals and stamens small. Fruit a 

 glandular berry turning purplish in ripening, the pedicels up- 

 wardly curving on the pendent racemes. Millwood, General 

 Grant Grove. 



ROSACE/C. Rose Family. 

 ke;v to xhe gekera. 



TREES OR SHRUBS. 



§ Stipules free Jrom the petioles. 



Shrubs with white flowers ; iruit a stone fruit (a iieshy outer 

 coat enclosing a nut) Cerasus, Cherry. 



Shrub with white flowers ; fruit like a berry with 5 cells, each. 

 containing i seed. . Amelanchier, Service Berry. 



§ Stipules united to the base of the petiole (sometimes 

 wanting); calyx 5 lobed, without bractlets. 



Shrubs with small white flowers in panicles ; pistils 5, distinct, 

 forming small pods. . Holodiscus, Meadowsweet. 



Shrubs or woody vines; petals 5, conspicuous ; pistils numerous 

 on a conical receptacle, each becoming a small stone-fruit. 

 Rubus, Raspberry. 



