104 FOUNDATIONS OF BOTANY 



toothed, smooth above, downy beneath. Flowers in terminal 

 racemes, creamy white, 1-1^ in. wide, very fragrant. Calyx-lobes 

 ovate, acute, longer than the tube. Common in cultivation.* 



VI. DEUTZIA, Thunb. 



Shrubs with simple, opposite leaves, without stipules. 

 Flowers all perfect and alike, racemed or panicled, showy. 

 Calyx-lobes 5. Petals 5. Stamens 10, 5 long and 5 short ; 

 filaments flat and 3-pronged, the middle prong bearing an 

 anther. Styles 3-5, slender. Pod 3-5-celled. 



1. D. gracilis, Sieb. and Zucc. About 2 ft. high, loosely spreading. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate, sharply serrate, smooth. Flowers white, 

 very numerous. Cultivated from Japan, often in greenhouses. 



Vn. RIBES, L. 



Shrubs. Leaves palmately veined and lobed, sometimes 

 with stipules. Calyx-tube egg-shaped, adnate to the 1-celled 

 ovary, its 5 lobes usually colored like the petals. Petals 5, 

 small, generally inserted on the throat of the calyx-tube. 

 Stamens 5, inserted with the petals. Styles 2. Ovary 

 1-celled, with 2 placentae on its walls, becoming in fruit a 

 pulpy (usually eatable) berry. 



1. R. rotundifolium, Michx. Smooth Wild Gooseberry. Spines 

 few and short, prickles few or absent. Leaves roundish, lobed, with 

 the lobes crenate-dentate, often downy. Peduncles slender ; flowers 

 inconspicuous. Calyx-lobes reflexed. Styles and stamens projecting 

 decidedly from the calyx-tube. Berries smooth. 



2. R. Cynosbati, L. Prickly Wild Gooseberry. Spines in 

 pairs. Leaves long-petioled, downy, heart-shaped, cut-dentate. The 

 single style and the stamens not projecting from the calyx-tube. 

 Berries generally prickly, brownish-pm*ple, pleasant-flavored. 



3. R. rubrum, L. Red Currant. Stems more or less reclining. 

 Leaves somewhat heart-shaped, obtusely 3-5-lobed. Racemes droop- 

 ing. Limb of the cal}^ wheel-shaped. Berries acid, eatable, red 

 or light amber-colored. Cultivated from Europe, also a variety wild 

 in the northern United States. 



4. R. aureum, Pursh. Golden Currant, Flowering C, Mis- 

 souri C, Clove C. A much taller shrub than the common red 

 currant. Leaves 3-lobed, toothed. Racemes short and loose. Tube 



