296 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



currant, native both of Europe and America, extends from the 

 northern states very nearly to the shores of the Arctic Sea, 

 having been gathered beyond the 69th parallel ; and it ranges 

 westward to Kotzebue's Sound. It is the Ki-eh-eth-lule-aze of 

 the Dog-ribs and Hare Indians. R. prostratum, fetid currant, 

 inhabits cold damp woods from Nova Scotia and the Northern 

 States northwards to the Athabasca, and westward to the Rocky 

 Mountains and Oregon. The fruit is produced in copious 

 racemes ; but, in common with the foliage, it has an unpleasant 

 odour, and a strong taste of turpentine. R. hudsonianum. 

 This is the Nut-sinne of the Dog-ribs, and is a common goose- 

 berry from Hudson's Bay to the Rocky Mountains and subalpine 

 districts of Columbia ; also in a northerly direction on the 

 Mackenzie to lat. 67°. R. jioridum, wild black currant, re- 

 sembles the preceding, and is a common species in the Northern 

 States, westward to Wisconsin, and ranges northwards to lat. 

 54°. R. sanguineum, which has become so common an orna- 

 ment of our gardens, is a native of the Pacific coast only, where 

 it ranges from 38° north lat. to 52°. There are several other 

 very handsome species in Oregon, and, among others, the rich 

 P. aareum ; but they have not been traced beyond the 49th 

 parallel. 



Araliace;e. — Panax horridum, prickly ash-leaved panax, 

 a twining shrub common in California, Oregon, and New 

 Caledonia, as far north as 57° or 58°, crosses the Rocky 

 Mountain ridge to the upper tributaries of the Saskatchewan, 

 but does not descend to the eastward. Aralia hispida, bristly 

 sarsaparilla, may be considered as the eastern representative 

 of the preceding, though it is scarcely shrubby, having merely 

 a very short, tough stem, almost buried in the crevices of the 

 rocks from which it springs. 



Corner. — Comas alba vel stolonifera, red osier cornel. This 

 willow-like shrub, which is the osier rouge of the voyagers, 

 ornaments the river strands from the Northern States, Nova 

 Scotia, and Newfoundland, northwards to near the mouth of the 

 Mackenzie, and westward to the shores of the Pacific. It is 

 named by the Crees, on account of the bright red colour of its 



