YELLOW WILD CURRANT (Ribes tenuiflorum, Lindl.). Flow- 

 ers bright yellow, both calyx and petals; in many-flowered, 

 green, bracted racemes, rather closely scattered along the 

 thornless branches: the calyx salver-shaped with spreading 

 lobes, the short petals like a tiny crown in the midst. Leaves 

 light green, small and thin, roundish, several lobed at the tip. 

 A deciduous shrub, 3 to 10 feet high, flowering in late winter or 

 early spring and bearing later a smooth, amber-colored berry. 

 Occurring along canon streams and in washes from Southern 

 California, to Washington, and eastward to Montana, Color- 

 ado and New Mexico. 



The massed bushes of the Yellow Wild Currant form one of 

 the choice attractions in Flora's wild flower show of early 

 spring. In its general effect the plant resembles the yellow- 

 flowered form of the familiar Missouri or Buffalo Currant 

 (R. aureum of the nurseryman) cultivated for ornament in old- 

 fashioned gardens of the East; but its blossoms are less showy, 

 and lack the spicy fragrance of the Missouri Currant. 



There are on the Pacific coast several species of true Cur- 

 rants (readily distinguished from the Gooseberries which are 

 of the same genus, by the absence of thorns and prickles), 

 but the berries of all seem to be of negligible food value. 

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