104 FOUNDATIONS OF BOTANY 
toothed, smooth above, downy beneath. Flowers in terminal 
racemes, creamy white, 1-14 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. 
VI. 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 placentz on its walls, becoming in fruit a 
pulpy (usually eatable) berry. 
1. R. rotundifolium, Michx. SmootrH 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. Prickty Witp GooseBEeRRyY. 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-purple, pleasant-flavored. 
3. R. rubrum, L. Rep Currant. Stems more or less reclining. 
Leaves somewhat heart-shaped, obtusely 3-5-lobed. Racemes droop- 
ing. Limb of the calyx 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, FLowerineG C., Mis- 
sourI C., Clove C. A much taller shrub than the common red 
currant. Leaves 3-lobed, toothed. Racemes short and loose. Tube 
