452 HAMAMKLIDACKAK ( NVITCH-H AZKL FAMILY') 



sharply 3-5-lobed, doubly serrate; raceme* dron/, ///</. v,, ?/////. tin- elongate bracts 

 persistent ; flowers large, yellow and whitish ; <((/>/.> titbular-bell-shaped, smooth, 

 8-10 mm. long. Alluvial thickets and rich banks, N. B. to Assina., and southw. 



8. R xioiM'M L. (BLACK C. of gardens.) Similar, but the unbexct'iit ctilij.f, 

 5-6 mm. long, the tube broadly campanula te, <jr<< nisJt jmrpb- <m<l tiiill n-ltitixh. 

 Cultivated, and occasionally escaping to thickets, etc. (Introd. from. Eu.) 



9. R. hudsonianum Richards. Similar, but the short rut-eme* //////*//// or 

 spreading, the short bracts caducous; the white calyx 4-5 mm. l<nnj, tin- tube 

 much shorter than the spreading-ascendiny lobes. Swamps, Hudson Bay to 

 Minn., westw. and north westw. 



10. R. lacustre (Pers.) Poir. (SWAMP BLACK C.) Young stems clothed with 

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

 lobes deeply cut; racemes loosely spreading or drooping, the rharJtis. />e<!i<'f/s. 

 and ovary glandular-bristly; calyx broad and flat; stamens and style not 

 longer than the petals; fruit bristly, purplish black. Cold woods and swamps, 

 Nfd. to B. < '.. s. to n. N. E. , Mich., Minn., Col., andn. Cal., and in the tuts, to 1'a. 



11. R. prostratum I/Her. (SIU;NK C 1 .) Stems reclined; leaves deeply 

 heart-shaped, 5-7-lobed, smooth, the lobes ovate, acute, doubly serrate ; racemes 

 erect, slender ; calyx flattish ; pedicels and red fruit glandular-bristly. Damp 

 woods and rocks, Lab. to Athabasca, s. to n. JS T . E., Mich., Minn., and along 

 the mts. to N. C. 



12. R. vi L(.\HK Lam. (Rt-:t> C. of gardens.) Suberect ; leaves mostly cordate, 

 slightly pnl esceiit beneath or glabrate, the mature blades ,3.5-6.5 cm. wide, broad- 

 ened upv< (}, :! Vlobed, the lobes mostly short-ovate; racemes borne chit-fly 

 among the leafy shoots, spreading in anthesis, drooping in fruit, 8-5 (becoming 

 7) cm. long, the rhachis glabrous though often glandular ; pedicels mostly gland- 

 less ; calyx yellow-green, its segments oval and abruptly narrowed below the 

 middle ; petals narrowly cuneate ; disks between the stamens and the slightly 

 cleft style a hii;h narrow ring with round-scalloped margin ; fruit plump and 

 juicy. (11. rubrum Man. ed.O, not L.) Commonly cultivate. 1. and frequently 

 escaping to fence-rows, thickets, and open woods. (Nat. from Eu.) 



13. R. triste Pall. (SWAMP KKU C.) Straggling or reclining, the branches 

 often rooting freely; leaves somewhat heart-shaped, the mature Hades 5-10 em. 

 broad, the sides nearly parallel, the lobt-x inoxtlij broml <b lioi<i. permanently 

 white-tomentose beneath; raceme* burnt-' </ the <>/</ n-noo 1 rhirflij b, /<> flu- b-<ify 

 tufts, drooping, :5.5- ( .) cm. long ; pedicels mostly glandular ; <-nh/.r smokr-mlnr 

 to purplish, the segments broadly cuneate to subrhomhic, as broad as or broader 

 than long; petals broadly cuneate; disk a low broad pentagon ; style deeply 

 cleft ; fruit mostly small and hard. (E. rubnnn. \ar. sKliifltinditlnsnni Maxim. > - 

 Cold woods, swamps, and subalpine regions. Nfd. to Alaska, s. to Me. and N't. 

 (Asia.) Var. AUUNKRVIUM (Michx.) Fernald. Leaves glabrous or glabrate 

 beneath. More common, extending s. to N. S., N. H., Vt., Mich.. Wise., etc, 



14. R. aureum Pursh. (MISSOURI or Bi KI \r,<> C.) Tall spineless shrub : 

 leaves 3-5-lobed, rarely at all cordate, comnlutr in bn<l ; racemes short : jinn-,-,-* 

 golden -ij< 1 1 n-. s/iii-!/-f/-in/fttnt ; tube of salver-form <-<ihj.r .'5-4 times !<>n<j<r Hum 

 the oval lnln-x ; stamen's sltorl ; berries yellow or black. Hanks of streams. 

 Minn, to Mo., Ark., and westw. ; also common in cultivation. 



HAMAMELIDACEAE (WiTni-iiA/.t i. KVMILY) 



Shrub* Of />vr.s, with alternate sim^h' h-nn-s </>> deCiduOU8 Stipules; 

 in heads r >y///Ts. often /infi/i/i/nttnts or nnio<-fi<nts ; ///>' rah/.,- mUieriiiy to 

 the base of th< or<ir;i. /////'// I'misists of L' r isfils nnit.il bi-loir, mut forms a 

 l-bt-tikt il !-<< U, <1 ironih/ rnjixtili-, ofteninif ill tin- sinilmit. "-/f/i ,i *i)iifl<- bony *ei'<l 

 in <'(/<// ,-,ll, of xi-rero-l, onhj oin of fn-o of tin m r/jienini/. 1'elals inserted on 

 the calyx, narrow, valvate oj- involute in the bud. or often nmie at all. Stamens 

 twice as many as the petals, and half of them sterile and changed into -rales, or 



