396 GROSSULARIACEAE 



glabrous, 1-4-flowered; bract small and glabrous; hypanthium glabrous; tube 

 2.5-3.5 mm. long, a little longer than the glabrous sepals; berry red-purple, 

 glabrous, about 8 mm. thick. R. inerme Rydb. R. rallicola Greene, a more 

 pubescent form. Moimtains: B.C. — Alta. — N.M.— Utah — Calif. Sub7twnl. — 

 Mo7it. My-Jl. 



7. G. Purpusi (Koehne) Rydb. Shrub with fine puberulent branches; 

 nodal spines 1 cm. long or less; leaves mostly truncate at the base, decidedly pub- 

 escent and slightly glandular; peduncles short; hypanthium glabrous; tube about 

 3 mm. long, as long as the sepals, which usually bear a few scattered hairs on the 

 lower side; berry glabrous, purple. R. Purpusi Koehne. Mountains: Colo. — • 

 N.M. Submont. My-Je. 



8. G. leptantha (A. Gray) Cov. & Britt. A shrub 1-2 m. high, the branches 

 sometimes bristly; spines 0.5-1.5 cm. long; leaves reniform-orbicular in outUne, 

 crenate-dentate, truncate at the base, 0.5-2 cm. broad, glabrous or pubescent on 

 both sides; peduncles 1-2-flowered, shorter than the leaves; pedicels very short; 

 hypanthium greenish, 4-6 mm. long, about half as thick; sepals greenish white, 

 pubescent; petals spatulate, white or pinkish, about half as long as the sepals; 

 berry 6-8 mm. in diameter. R. leptanthum A. Gray. Mountains: N.M. — -Colo. 

 — Ariz. — Utah. Submont. — Mont. Ap-Je. 



9. G. velutina (Greene) Cov. & Britt. A shrub 1-2 m. high; young shoots 

 jBnely pubescent but not bristly; spines 0.5-2 cm. long, straight or slightly curved; 

 leaf-blades crenate, 1-1.5 cm. broad, cordate or truncate at the base, finely 

 pubescent on both sides; hypanthium about 2 mm. long and 3 mm. thick; sepals 

 yellow, about 3 mm. long; petals oblong or obovate, yellow, 2-2.5 mm. long; berry 

 yellow, about 7 mm. thick. R. leptanthum brachyanthum A. Gray. R. lelutinum 

 Greene. Mountains: Ore. — -Utah — •Ariz. — -Calif. Son. — Submont. Ap-Jl. 



2. LIMNOBOTRYA Rydb. Swamp Currants. 



Shrubs, armed with pectinately divided nodal spines, usually also bristly. 

 Leaves more or less pentagonal in outline, palmately veined and quinatelj'-cleft 

 and incised or toothed. Flowers perfect, usually several, in bracted racemes; 

 pedicels jointed just under the short stipe-hke base of the flower, usually with 

 2 minute bractlets just below the node. Hypanthium shghtly produced beyond 

 the ovary; tube saucer-shaped. Sepals 5, ascending, oval or roimded. Petals 

 reniform-flabellate, clawed, erect. Stamens not exceeding the petals. Fruit a 

 currant-like berry. 



Leaves glabrous or nearly so; fruit black. 



Lobes of the leaves acute, incised, the terminal one decidedly longer ; basal sinus open; 

 stem usually densely bristly. 

 Nodal spines scarcely stronger than the bristles; stipitate base of the flowers 

 almost obsolete; peduncle and ovary densely glandular and the former also 

 finely villous. 1. L. lacustris. 



Nodal spines usually much stronger than the bristles; stipe-like base of the flowers 

 evident, 0.5-1 mm. long; peduncles and ovary sparingly glandular, but not 

 at all villous. 2. L. echinata. 



Lobes of the leaves obtusish, toothed, the terminal one scarcely longer; basal sinus 

 usually narrow; stem except in depauperate forms usually only slightly bristly; 

 stipe-like base of the flower about 0.5 mm. long; peduncles glandular and some- 

 times puberulent. 3. L. parvula. 

 Leaves pubescent and glandular on both sides; fruit bright red. 4. L. montigena. 



1. L. lacustris (Pers.) Rydb. Shrub 1-2 m. high; spines and bristles slen- 

 der, 2-4 mm. long; petioles ciliate; leaf-blades 2-5 cm. long, cleft about three- 

 fourth their length; divisions rhombic, incised into oblong acute teeth; flowers 

 4-10, light green or purplish; stamens shorter than the petals; berry 6-8 mm. in 

 diameter; denselv glandular-hispid. Ribes lacustre (Pers.) Poir. Swamps: 

 Newf.— Mass.— Pa.— (Black Hills) S.D.— Mack. Boreal— Submont. My-Jl. 



2. L. echinata (Lindl.) Rydb. Shrub 1-2 m. high; spines usually com- 

 paratively stout, 3-8 mm. long and bristles fine and numerous; leaves as in the 

 preceding; peduncles and ovary often almost glandless; bractlets about 0.5 mm. 

 long; flowers 6-20, often purplish; stamens usually equaUing the petals; berry 

 8-10 mm. in diameter, sparingly glandular-hispid or glabrous. R. echinatum 

 Lindl. Swamps: Alaska — Mont. — Ida. — n Calif. Sub7nont. My-Jl. 



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