394 HyDRAXGIACE.\E 



half-inferior, narrowed at both ends, 3-valved, septicidal. Seeds solitary in each 

 cavity. 



1. F, utahensis (S. Wats.) Heller. A diffuse shrub, usually less than a 

 meter high; branches, leaves, and young parts strigillose; leaf-blades oblong or 

 elliptic to oblong-spatulate, 6-16 mm, long; hypanthium pubescent; sepals 

 lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm. long, ciliate; petals oblong or elliptic, 3-4 mm. long; body 

 of capsule 4 mm. long. Canons and cliffs; Utah — Nev. — Ariz. Submoni, — - 

 Mont, Jl. 



4. FfiNDLERA Engelm. & Gray. 



Shrubs, with exfoliating bark, becoming striate. Leaves opposite, deciduous, 

 entire, 3-ribbed, sessile or nearly so. Flowers solitary or 2 or 3 together, perfect, 

 rather large. Hypanthium turbinate, 8-ribbed. Sepals 4, valvate. Petals 4, 

 white, clawed, with ovate-deltoid, erose blades. Stamens 8; filaments flattened^ 

 with 2 narrow appendages; connective prolonged beyond the anthers, which are 

 slightly elongate. Ovary 4-celled; styles 4, distinct; stigmas minute, nearly ter- 

 minal. Ovules numerous, pendulous. Capsule less than half inferior, septicidaL 

 Seeds few in each cavity. 



Hypanthium and lower surface of the leaves strigose, the upper surface hispidulous. 



1. F. tomenlella. 

 Hypanthium and leaves sparingly strigose or glabrous. 2. F. falcata, 



1. F. tomentella Thornber. Shrub 1-1.5 m. high, with reddish or straw- 

 colored, pubescent twigs; leaves lanceolate, 1.5-3 cm. long, dull green, strongly 

 3-ribbed; petals 15-20 mm. long; capsule 10-12 mm. long. F. rupicola of FL 

 Colo. Among rocks: N.M.— Colo.— Utah— Ariz. Son,—SuhmonL Ap-Au. 



2. F. falcata Thornber. Shrub 1.5-2 m. high, with reddish, glabrate 

 twigs; leaves 1.5-4 cm. long, lanceolate, often narrowly so, revolute on the mar- 

 gins; pedicels and hypanthium glabrous or sparingly strigose and glabrate; 

 petals 17-22 mm. long; capsule 11-16 mm. long. Mountains: N.M.— Colo. 

 Son, — Mont. My-Jl. 



Family 59. GROSSULARIACEAE. Gooseberry Family. 



Shrubs, with palmately veined leaf-blades; stipules none or adnate to the 

 petioles. Inflorescence racemose. Flowers regular, perfect. Hypanthium 

 more or less developed, from saucer-shaped to tubular. Sepals 5, rarely 4. 

 Petals as many as the sepals, small. Stamens as many as and alternate 

 with the petals, inserted in the mouth of the hypanthium. Gj^noecium of 2 

 united carpels; ovary 1-celled, with 2 parietal placentae, inferior; styles 2. 

 Fruit a pulpy berrJ^ 



Lea^bIades plicate (folded like a fan) in vernation; flowers regular; style not inclined. 

 Flant armed with nodal spines and usuaUy also bristlv. 



Pedicels not jointed near the flowers; bractlets if" present enclosed in the bractr 



liM)anthmm-tube well developed, deeply campanulate to cylindric. 

 x,,.,,.^,,,, 1. Grossularta. 



-Pedicels jointed below the short stipe-like base of the flower, bearing the bractlets 

 just below the node; h>-panthium-tube short, saucer -shaped. 



T>i „*. 1 J. , . . , 2. LiMXOBOTRYA. 



I'lant unarmed; pedicels jointed just under the flowers; bractlets if present borne 

 just under the node. 3 ribks 



H^\^^^ ^'^'^^^^^*® (rolled in) in vernation; flowers sHghtly irregular; styl^ somewhat 

 aeciinea. ^^ Chkysoboxrya. 



1. GROSSULARIA (Tourn.) Mill Goosebkrries. 



bhrubs, normally armed with simple or 3-forked nodal spines. Leaves in ours 

 rounded or remform, or more or less pentagonal in outline, 3-5-clef t and crenate 

 or dentate, flowers bracteate in few-flowered racemes; pedicels not jointed. 



Hypanthium 



dric. Fruit a berry 



glandular-hispid in G, setosa, but in species from other regions often spiny. 



