GROSSULARIACEAE. 



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Ribes lacustre (Pers.) Poir. 



8. Ribes prostratum L'Her. 



R. prostratum L'Her. Stirp. Nov. i : 3. pi. 2, 1784. 



Branches decumbent or spreading, thorn- 

 less and without prickles. Petioles slender, 

 I '-3' long, pubescent or glabrous, the dilated 

 base sometimes ciliate; leaves nearly orbi- 

 cular, sharply and deeply 5-7-lobed, i'-3' 

 wide, usually somewhat pubescent along the 

 veins beneath, the lobes acute or acutish, 

 dentate-serrate; flowers racemose, appear- 

 ing from the same buds as the leaves, about 

 2% " broad; pedicels 2 // -2,j4 // long, glandu- 

 lar, bracted at the base; calyx broadly cam- 

 panulate, its lobes short and broad; stamens 

 short, not exserted; fruit light red, glandu- 

 lar-bristly, about 2" in diameter. 



In cold wet places, Labrador to British Colum- 

 bia and the Northwest Territory, south, especi- 

 ally alon? the mountains, to North Carolina, 

 Michigan, and in the Rocky Mountains to Colo- 

 rado. Plant with a disagreeable odor. Ascends 

 to 6000 ft. in North Carolina. May-June. 



Swamp Gooseberry. (Fig. 1871.) 



Ribes oxyacanthoid.es var. lacustre Pers. 



Syn. i: 252. 1805. 

 Ribes lacustre Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 



2: 856. 181 1. 



Spines slender, weak, generally clus- 

 tered. Branches usually densely bristly; 

 petioles slender, more or less pubescent; 

 leaves nearly orbicular, thin, pubescent 

 along the veins beneath, deeply 5-7- 

 Icbed, i '-2' wide, the lobes obtuse or 

 acutish, incised-dentate; flowers race- 

 mose, green, about 2" long; pedicels 

 slender, bracted at the base, about "2" 

 long; calyx-tube short, campanulate, its 

 lobes short, broad, spreading; stamens 

 very short, not exserted; berry about 2 // 

 in diameter, reddish, covered with weak 

 bristles. 



In swamps and wet woods, Newfound- 

 land to Massachusetts, New York and 

 Pennsylvania, west to Michigan, British 

 Columbia and Washington. Intermediate 

 between Gooseberries and Currants. May- 

 June. 



Fetid Currant. (Fig. 1872.) 



9. Ribes Hudsonianum Richards. 

 Northern Black Currant. ( Fig. 1 873. ) 

 Ribes Hudsonianum Richards. Prank. Journ. 



Ed. 2, 6. 1823. 



Branches erect, unarmed. Petioles slender, 

 i '-4' long; leaves broader than long, i'-4' 

 wide, more or less pubescent and resinous- 

 dotted beneath, 3-5-lobed, the lobes obtuse 

 or acutish, coarsely dentate; racemes from 

 the same buds as the leaves, erect, densely 

 flowered; pedicels i" long or less; flowers 

 white, 2 // -3 // broad, calyx broadly campanu- 

 late, its lobes oval, obtuse; stamens short, 

 not exserted; bracts setaceous, deciduous; 

 fruit black, glabrous, 2 // ~3 // in diameter. 



Hudson Bay and western Ontario to British 

 Columbia and the Northwest Territory, south in 

 the Rocky Mountains to Colorado. May-June. 



Ribes nigrum I,., the Black Currant of the gar- 

 dens, with similar leaves, but loosely flowered 

 drooping racemes, is beginning to escape from 

 cultivation. 



