GOOSEBERRY FAMILY 399 



outline, pubescent and glandular on both sides, 5-S cm. broad; lobes rounded, 

 short and broad, ci'enate; racemes spreading or ascending, few-flowered; bracts 

 oblanceolate, entire; hj-panthium cylindro-campanulate, 6-7 mm. long, greenish 

 or pinkish; sepals oblong, obtuse, about as long as the h^'panthium; berr\- black, 

 about 1 cm. in diameter. Mountain woods; B.C. — Mont. — Colo. — Calif. Sub- 

 tnont.- — Mont. My-.Jl. 



11. R. reniforme Xutt. A robust shrub, usually 1.5-2.5 m. high, with 

 glabrous shoots; leaf-blades reniform-orbicular, 2.5-5 cm. wide, not pubescent, 

 glandular-pruinose on both sides; racemes 4-7-flowered, nearly as long as the 

 leaves, glabrous; bracts hght green, rhombic or obovate, nearly entire, glandular; 

 tube of the hypanthiiun cream-white, about S mm. long, with stalked glands, 

 but not pubescent; sepals oblong, recur\-ed; petals white, reniform-orbicular; 

 stj'les glabrous; fruit 6-8 mm. in diameter. Dry hills: ^lont. — "Wash. — Ore. 

 Subtnont. Ajj-Je. 



12. R. cereum Lindl. A much branched shrub, 1 m. high or less, the young 

 shoots fineh' puberulent; leaf-blades roimd-reniform, 1— 1 cm. wide, puberulent 

 and somewhat glandular, the lobes rounded, crenate; racemes short, puberulent, 

 few-flowered, drooping; hypanthium-tube cylindric, pubescent, 6-8 mm. long, 

 white, greenish, or cream-colored; sepals ovate, about 2 mm. long; petals minute, 

 orbicular; fruit bright red, 6-7 mm. m diameter. Drv hills; Cahf. — Utah — 

 :Mont.— B.C. Son.—Submont. My-Jl. 



13. R. inebrians Lindl. A low scraggling shrub, 0.5-1 m. high; leaf -blades 

 round-reniform, 1-3 cm. wide, the lobes rounded, crenate; racemes few-flowered, 

 pendulous, puberulent and usually glandular; tube of the hA-panthium 5-8 mm. 

 long, usually pink or pinkish; sepals ovate, acutish; fruit 6-8 mm. in diameter. 

 R. pumilum Xutt. Dr\- hills: S.D. — w Xeb. — X.M. — Ariz. — Ida. Plain — 

 Submont. My-Jl. 



4. CHRYSOBOTRYA Spach. Flowertxg, Goldex, MissorRi, or 



BuFF.iLO Currants. 



Unarmed erect shrubs. Leaves palmately veined, paknately 3-5-lobed, 

 convolute in vernation. Inflorescence racemose, several-flowered; pedicels 

 jointed beneath the flower. Flowers perfect, shghtly irregular. H}-panthium 

 well developed, yellow, tubular, slightly obhque. Petals erose or denticulate at 

 the apex. Fruit a berry, disarticulating from the pedicel. 



Sepals less than half as long as the hypanthium-tube. 1. C. odorata. 



Sepals more than half as long as the hj-panthium-tube. 2. C. aurea. 



1. C. odorata ^Wendl.) Rydb. A shrub 1-2 m. high, with pubescent yoimg 

 shoots and gray bark on the old stems; leaves obovate or suborbicular in outhne, 

 cuneate at the base, 2-5 cm. broad, deeply 3-5-lobed and coarsely dentate, gla- 

 brous on both sides; racemes 4— S-flowered; bracts ovate or oval, longer than the 

 pubescent pedicels; hj-panthitim 10-15 mm. long; petals 2-3 mm. long, erose; 

 berr\- black, globose, about 8 mm. in, diameter. Ribes odoratum Wendl. R. 

 lonffiflorum Xutt. Chrysobotrya reioluta Spach. Hillsides: S.D. — Tex. Plain. 



2. C. aurea (Pm-sh) Rydb. Erect shrub, 1-2 m. high; leaves reniform- 

 orbicular to obovate in outhne, firm, 3-5-lobed and dentate, from cuneate to sub- 

 cordate at the base, 3-5 cm. broad, glabrous or essentially so; racemes 5-15- 

 flowered; bracts oblong or obovate, 5-12 mm. long; tube of the h}-panthium 

 6-10 mm. long; petals oblong, erose, yellow, often tipped with red; fruit black, 

 red, or amber-yellow, 6-8 mm. in diameter. Ribes aureum Pursh. Chrysobotrya 

 Lindleyana and C. intermedia Spach. HiUs and river banks: Wash. — ^Sask. — 

 S.D.— X.M. —Cahf. Submont. 



Family 60. ROSACEAE. Rose Family. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, usually with alternate leaves and stipules. Flow- 

 ers perfect, rarely dioecious or monoecious, regular or nearly so. Hypan- 

 thium usually well developed, from flat or saucer-shaped to urn-shaped, 



