GROSSULACEJE. (CURRANT FAMILY.) 143 
— Cold damp woods and rocks, common northward. May. — The 
bruised plant and berries exhale an unpleasant odor. 
6. R. florid uni, L. (Wild Black Currant.) Leaves 
sprinkled with resinous dots , slightly heart-shaped, sharply 3-5-lobed, 
doubly serrate ; racemes drooping , downy; bracts longer than the ped¬ 
icels ; calyx tubular-bell-shaped (yellowish-green) smooth ; fruit 
round-ovoid , black t smooth. — Woods, common. May. — Much like 
the Garden Black Currant , which the berries resemble in smell and 
flavor. Flowers large. 
7. R, rubriim, L. (Red Currant.) Stems straggling or re¬ 
clined ; leaves somewhat heart-shaped, obtusely 3 - 5-lobed, serrate, 
downy beneath when young ; racemes from lateral buds distinct from 
the leaves , drooping; calyx flat; fruit globose , smooth , red. — Cold 
damp woods and bogs, N. Hampshire to Wisconsin, exclusively 
northward. Same as the common Red Currant of the gardens. 
R. aureum, Pursh, the Yellow-flowered or Missouri Currant, 
now a very common ornamental shrub in cultivation, is remarkable 
for the spicy fragrance of its early blossoms. 
Order 44. PASSIFLORACEJE. 
Vines , climbing by tendrils , with perfect flowers , 5 mon- 
adelphous stamens , and a stalked l-celled ovary free from 
the calyx , with 3 or 4 parietal placentae , and as many club- 
shaped styles ; represented by the typical genus, 
1. PASSIFEORA, L. Passion-flower. 
Calyx of 5 sepals united at the base, imbricated in the bud, 
the throat crowned with a double or triple fringe. Petals 5, aris¬ 
ing from the throat of the calyx. Stamens 5 : their filaments 
united in a tube which sheathes the long stalk of the ovary, sep¬ 
arate and spreading above : anthers large, fixed by the middle. 
Fruit a large fleshy berry, many-seeded ; the anatropous albumi¬ 
nous seeds invested by a pulpy covering. Seed-coat brittle, groov¬ 
ed.— Leaves alternate, palmately lobed, generally with stipules. 
Peduncles axillary, mostly 1-flowered, jointed. (Name, from 
passio , passion, and flos , a flower, given by the early missionaries 
in S. America to these flowers, in which they fancied a repre¬ 
sentation of the implements of the crucifixion.) 
1- P. lutea, L. Smooth, slender; leaves obtusely 3-Iobed at 
the summit, the lobes entire; petiole glandless; stipules minute ; 
