364 THE KINDS OF PLANTS 



calyx-lobes longer than the calyx-tube, the ovary and berry smooth, the 

 fruit reddish or green. Swamps N.; probable parent of Houghton and 

 Downing gooseberries. 



R. GroBBuliiria, Linn. Ettglish gooseberry. Stiffer and denser bush, 

 ■with firm and thickish more shining leaves, which have revolute margins: 



Amerisanum. 483. Ribes aureum. 



ovary downy and the large fruit pubescent or bristly. Europe; parent of 

 the large-fruited gooseberries. 



B. Cyndsbati, Linn. Tall, open, prickly bush, with thickish bluntly 

 3-lobed downy leaves and long peduncles bearing 3 or more flowers with 

 calyx-lobes shorter than the tube: leaves rounded and 3-lobed: fruit dull 

 purple, either prickly or smooth. Common in dry places. 



aa. Currants: florvers in long racemes: no spines. 



B. rilbruin, Linn. Med and white currant. Fig. 48L Erect bush, with 

 broad-cordate 3-5-lobed leaves with roundish lobes and not strong-smelling: 

 racemes drooping, the flowers greenish and nearly flat open: berries (cur- 

 rants) red or white. Europe. 



B. nigrrum, Linn. Black currant. Stronger bush, with strong-scented 

 leaves and larger oblong or bell-shaped flowers with bracts much shorter 

 than the pedicels: berries black and strong-smelling. Europe. 



B. Americinum, Marsh. [R. floridum, L'Her). Wild black currant. 

 Fig. 482. Straggling bush, with heart-shaped 3-5-lobed doubly serrate some- 

 what scented leaves: flowers in long racemes, whitish, with bracts longer 

 than the pedicels: fruit black, scented. Woods. 



E. ailreum, Rursh. Golden, buffalo, or flowering currant. Fig. -18:!. 

 Large bush, with racemes of long-tubular yellow very fragrant flowers: 

 fruit blackish. Missouri, west, but common in gardens for its flowers. 



XXXI. ONAGRACE.E. Evening Primrose Family. 



Mostly herbs: leaves various, alternate or opposite, without 

 stipules: flowers perfect, usually 4-parted, with calyx-tube joined to 

 ovary and often prolonged, the margin 4-lobed, lobes valvate in the 



