'/6 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



slender petioles, roundish heart-shaped, 3-5-lobed. Ped- 

 uncles slender, 2- 3 -flowered. Berry covered with long 

 prickles. Open woods and clearings. 



2. R. oxyaeanthoi'des, L. (R. hirtellum, Michx.) (SMALL 

 WILD GOOSEBERRY.) Stems with very short thorns or none. 

 Peduncles very short, 1-2-flowered. Stamens shorter than 

 the broadly oblong calyx-lobes. Berry small, smooth. Low 

 grounds. 



3. R. rotundifo'lium, Michx. Like the last, but the 

 stamens are longer than the narrowly oblong-spathulaie calyx- 

 lobes. Chiefly eastward. 



4. R. laeus'tre, Poir. (SWAMP GOOSEBERRY.) Shrubby. 

 Young stems prickly, and thorny at the bases of the leaves. 

 Leaves cordate, deeply 3-5-lobed, the lobes deeply cut. Racemes 

 4-9-flowered, slender, nodding. Fruit bristly. Swamps and 

 wet woods. 



5. R. flor'idum, L. (WILD BLACK CURRANT.) Stems and 

 fruit without prickles or thorns. Leaves resinous -dotted, 

 sharply 3-5-lobed, doubly serrate. Racemes many- flowered, 

 drooping. Calyx bell-shaped. Fruit black, smooth. 

 Woods. 



6. R. rubrum, L. (WILD BED CURRANT.) A low shrub 

 with straggling stems. Leaves obtusely 3-5-lobed. Racemes 

 from lateral buds separate from the leaf -buds,, drooping. 

 Calyx flat. Fruit red, smooth. Bogs and wet woods. 



7. R. prostra'tum, L'Her. (FETID CURRANT.) Stems re- 

 clined. Leaves deeply cordate, 5-7-lobed, smooth, the lobes 

 ovate, acute, doubly serrate. Racemes erect, slender, the 

 flowers greenish. Fruit pale red, glandular-bristly. Cold 

 damp woods and rocks. 



8. R. Hudsonia'num, Richards. Like the last, but with 

 white flowers crowded in the erect raceme, and darker and 

 smooth fruit. N. W. Also in central Ontario. 



2. PARNAS'SIA, Tourn. GRASS OF PARNASSUS. 

 1. P. Carolinia'na, Michx. Petals sessile, very veiny. 

 Sterile filaments 3 in each set. Leaves ovate or rounded, 



