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mm. long, about equaling the glandular pedicels: calyx-tube cylindrical, 

 10-12 mm. long, abruptly inflated above its union with the ovary, twice as 

 long as the oblong lobes: petals oblong, rounded at the summit, about half as 

 long as the lobes of the calyx: styles smooth, 2-cleft at the apex about 

 equaling the short included stamens: fruit ovoid, black, viscid-pubescent. 

 In the mountains; from our range to the Pacific States. 



10. Ribes Hudsonianum Richards, Frank. Journ. Ed. 2: 6. 1823. Stems 

 erect, 10-18 dm. high: leaves rounded-cordate in outline, 5-19 cm. in diam- 

 eter, smooth above, resinous-dotted beneath, 3-5-lobed; the lobes acute, 

 coarsely and doubly serrate: racemes erect, with or without a few small 

 leaves at base, 5-10 cm. long, many-flowered; bracts setaceous, much shorter 

 than the pedicels: calyx campanulate, deeply 5-parted, the oblong obtuse 

 lobes 2-3 mm. long: petals oblong, minute: style glabrous, deeply cleft: fruit 

 globose, resinous-dotted. (R. petiolare Dougl. in Trans. Hort. Soc. 7: 514. 

 1830, seems to be merely the more glabrous form of this species.) Wyoming 

 and across the continent northward. 



11. Ribes americanum Mill. Card. Diet. Ed. 8. No. 4. 1868. Branches 

 erect: petioles slender; leaves nearly orbicular, glabrous above, somewhat 

 pubescent and resinous-dotted beneath, 3-8 cm. wide, sharply 3-5-lobed; 

 the lobes dentate-serrate, acutish: bractlets linear, much exceeding the ped- 

 icels, or shorter; flowers greenish- white, 8-10 mm. long: calyx-lobes short, 

 broad, obtuse: stamens not exserted: fruit globose-ovoid, about 6 mm. in 

 diameter. (R. floridum L'Her. Stirp. Nov. 1: 4. 1785.) In wet woods; from 

 Nova Scotia to the Rocky Mountains. 



12. Ribes cereum Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc. 7: 512. 1830. A variable rigid 

 intricately branched shrub, 1-2 m. high: petioles more or less glandular- 

 pubescent, 6-20 mm. long: leaves reniform-orbicular, cordate at the base, 

 1-4 cm. wide, sparingly glandular-pubescent, or glabrate on both sides, 

 3-5-lobed; the lobes obtuse, crenate or crenulate: racemes short, pubescent, 

 pendulous; bractlets persistent; flowers sessile or short-pediceled, pink or 

 greenish-white: calyx dilated at the base: petals minute, nearly orbicular: 

 stamens short: fruit insipid, about 6 mm. in diameter, red, often glandular- 

 pubescent. (The species is variable, and the following are other described 

 forms: R. pumilum Nutt. T. & G. Fl. 1: 551. 1840; R. inebrians Lindl. Bot. 

 Reg. t. 1471.) Throughout the Rocky Mountains and west to the coast States. 



13. Ribes longiflorum Nutt. Ker. Bot. Reg. 2: pi. 125. 1816. A smooth 

 shrub, 1-3 m. high: petioles slender, pubescent, at least when young; leaves 

 pubescent and ciliate, or at length glabrous and shining, often broader than 

 long, thick, 3-lobed or sometimes 5-lobed, broadly cuneate or truncate at the 

 base, the lobes obtuse: racemes leafy-bracted, few-flowered; flowers golden- 

 yellow, spicy-scented, 12-25 mm. long: calyx-tube cylindric, glabrous, 3-4 

 times as long as the oval spreading lobes: stamens slightly exserted: fruit 

 black, glabrous, 6-10 mm. in diameter, /'. mireum, which name is now re- 

 stricted to the plant of the Columbia watershed. In our range, among other 

 forms, there is one which well deserves a horticultural name. Its fruit is 

 large, yellowish-red, juicy, well-flavored, and highly prized. (The MISSOURI or 

 GOLDEN CURRANT.) Throughout the trans-Missouri country. 



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Mostly shrubs with simple opposite exstipulate leaves and usually perfect 

 flowers, solitary or cymose. Sepals and petals 5. Stamens twice as many 

 or numerous, epigynous. Carpels 2-10, wholly united or the apex free, ad- 

 nate below (at least) to the inclosing calyx-tube. Seeds numerous. Saxi- 

 fragaceae in part. 



Stamens more than 10; ovary inferior 1. Philadelphia. 



Stamens 10 or fewer; ovary partly superior. 



Cymes many-flowered; leaves serrate ....... 2. Jamesia. 



Cymes 1-3-flowered; leaves entire 3. Fendlera. 



