1 72 GROSSULARI ACEAE. 



their petioles stipuliform at base, cauline few on the 

 simple stems. Flowers few in a simple terminal raceme. 

 Calyx campanulate or turbinate, 5-lobed, free from the 

 ovary or more or less adnate to it. Petals 5, exserted, 

 3-7-lobed or sometimes entire. Stamens 10, included; 

 anthers cordate. Ovary 1 -celled, with 3 parietal placen- 

 tae; styles 3, short. Fruit a 3-valved, many-seeded cap- 

 sule. 



1. L. ajffinis Gray. Stems 1 or several, 15-40 cm, high, scabrous- 

 hirsute; basal leaves few, round-reniform, slightly lobed, 2-3 cm. 

 broad; cauline 3-lobed to the middle, the lobes coarsely toothed; 

 calyx 5 mm. long, turbinate, the tube more or less adherent to the 

 ovary; pedicels about equaling or slightly exceeding the calyx; lower 

 petals 8-10 mm. long, 3-toothed, the upper slightly smaller, entire; 

 seeds faintly striate-pitted or almost smooth. {Tellima affinis 

 Boland.) 



Occasional on shady banks in the foothills, below 4000 feet 

 altitude. March-May. 



Family 43. GROSSULARI ACEAE. 



Gooseberry Family. 



Erect branching shrubs with alternate palmately 

 lobed, often resinous-glandular or viscid leaves. Stipules 

 when present adnate to the petiole. Flowers racemose, 

 rarely solitary on 1-2-leaved axillary shoots; pedicels 

 subtended by a bract and usually bearing 2 bractlets at 

 about the middle. Calyx-tube adnate to the globose 

 ovary and more or less produced above it. Petals 5 or 

 rarely 4, erect, mostly smaller than the calyx-lobes. 

 Stamens equaling the petals in number and alternate 

 with them. Ovary 1-celled with 2 parietal placentae; 

 styles 2, more or less united; stigmas terminal. Fruit a 

 berry, crowned with the withered remains of the flower. 



Pedicels jointed beneath the ovary; plants without 



nodal spines. 1. Ribes. 



Pedicels not jointed; plants with nodal spines. 2. Grossularia. 



1. RIBES L. Currant. 

 Unarmed or rarely bristly shrubs, with palmately 

 veined and usually lobed leaves. Racemes several- 



