GKOSSL'LACK-1'. (CURBANI FAillLT.) 13? 



# Peduncles 1 -3-flowered: leaves roundish-heart-shaped, 3-5-lobed. 



1. K. Cynoshaii, L. (Wild Gooseberry.) Leaves pubescent; po- 

 dunchs slender, 2 - 3-fiowcred ; stamens and undivided, style not longer than the hroad 

 calyx. — Rocky woods ; common, especially northward. May. — Spines slender. 

 Berry large, armed with long prickles like a burr, or rarely smooth. 



2. R. Iiii'tclltini, Michx. (Smooth Wild Gooseberry.) Leaves 

 somewhat pubescent beneath; peduncles very short, 1 -2-flowered, deflexed ; sta- 

 mens and 2-cleft style scarcely longer than the bell-shaped [purplish] calyx ; fruit 

 smooth, small, purple, sweet. — Moist grounds, X. England to Wisconsin, com- 

 mon. May. — Stems either smooth or prickly, and with wry short thorns, or 

 none. — This yields the commonest smooth gooseberry of New England, &&, 

 and usually passes for It. triflonun, W'illd., which name belongs to the next 



3. K. rotutidifolium, Michx. (Smooth Wild Gooseberry.) 



Leaves nearly smooth; jieduncles slender, 1 -3-rlowered ; stamens ami l-jmrted 

 style slender, lo?>gcr than the narrow cylindrical calyx; fruit smooth, pleasant. — 

 Rocks, W. Massachusetts to Wisconsin, ami southward along the mountains to 

 Virginia, &c. June. — Leaves rounded, with very short and blunt lobes. 

 # * Racemes 5 - ^-flowered, loose, slender, nodding. 



4. K. lacastre, Pair. (Swamp Gooseberhy.) Young stems clothed 



with bristly prickles, and with weak thorns; leaves heart-shaped, 3 - 5-parted, 

 ■with the lobes deeply cut ; calyx broad and Hat; stamens and style not longer 



than the petals ; fruit bristly (small, unpleasant). — Cold w 1- and swamps, 



N. England to Wisconsin and northward. June. 



$2. RIBESIA, Berl. (Currant.) — Stems neither prickly nor thorny : flowers 

 [greenish) in racemes: berries never prickly. 



5. K. pi'OStl'atum, L'ller. (Fetid Currant.) Stems reclined; 

 leaves deeply heart-shaped, 5 - 7-lobed, smooth ; the loins ovate, acute, doubly 

 serrate; racemes erect, slender; calyx flattish; pedicels and the [pale-red) fruit 

 ylnndular-b istly. — Cold damp wood-; and rocks, from N. England and I'enn. 

 northward. May. — The bruised plant and berries exhale an unpleasant odor. 



6. K. noridieiii, 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 pedicels; calyx tubular-bcll-sbaped, 

 smooth ; fruit round-ovoid, black, smooth. — Woods; common. May. — Much 

 like the Black Currant of the gardens, which the berries resemble in smell and 

 flavor. Flowers large. 



7. R. rubl'Uin, L. (Red Currant.) Stems straggling or reclined; 

 leaves somewhat heart-shaped, obtusely 3-5-lobed, senate, downy beneath when 

 young; racemes from lateral buds distinct from the leaf-buds, drooping ; calyx fiat 

 (green or purplish) ; fruit globose, smooth, red. — Cold damp woods and bogs, 

 New Hampshire to Wisconsin and northward. Same as the R< d Currant of the 

 gardens. (Eu.) 



R. aureum, Pursh, the Buffalo or Missouri Currant, remarkable for 

 the spicy fragrance of its early yellow blossoms, is cultivated for ornament. Its 

 leaves are convolute (instead of plaited) in the bud. 



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