394 HYDRANGIACEAE 



half-inferior, narrowed at both ends, 3-valved, septicidal. Seeds solitary in each 

 cavity. 



1. F. utahensis (S. Wats.) Heller. A diffuse shrub, usually less than a 

 meter high; branches, leaves, and young parts strigillose; leaf -blades oblong or 

 elliptic to oblong-spatulate, 6-16 mm. long; hypanthium pubescent; sepals 

 lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm. long, ciliate; petals oblong or elliptic, 3-4 mm. long; body 

 of capsule 4 mm. long. Canons and cliffs: Utah Nev. Ariz. Submont. 

 Mont. Jl. 



4. FENDLERA Engelm. & Gray. 



Shrubs, with exfoliating bark, becoming striate. Leaves opposite, deciduous, 

 entire, 3-ribbed, sessile or nearly so. Flowers solitary or 2 or 3 together, perfect,, 

 rather large. Hypanthium turbinate, 8-ribbed. Sepals 4, valvate. Petals 4,. 

 white, clawed, with ovate-deltoid, erose blades. Stamens 8; filaments flattened, 

 with 2 narrow appendages; connective prolonged beyond the anthers, which are 

 slightly elongate. Ovary 4-celled; styles 4, distinct; stigmas minute, nearly ter- 

 minal. Ovules numerous, pendulous. Capsule less than half inferior, septicidal .. 

 Seeds few in each cavity. 



Hypanthium and lower surface of the leaves strigose, the upper surface hispidulous. 



1. F. tomentella. 

 Hypanthium and leaves sparingly strigose or glabrous. 2. F. falcata. 



1. F. tomentella Thornber. Shrub 1-1.5 m. high, with reddish or straw- 

 colored, pubescent twigs; leaves lanceolate, 1.5-3 cm. long, dull green, strongly 

 3-ribbed; petals 15-20 mm. long; capsule 10-12 mm. long. F. rupicola of FL 

 Colo. Among rocks: N.M. Colo. -Utah Ariz. Son. Submont. Ap-Au. 



2. F. falcata Thornber. Shrub 1.5-2 m. high, with reddish, glabrate 

 twigs; leaves 1.5-4 cm. long, lanceolate, often narrowly so, revolute on the mar- 

 gins; pedicels and hypanthium glabrous or sparingly strigose and glabrate; 

 petals 17-22 mm. long; capsule 11-16 mm. long. Mountains: N.M. Colo. 

 Son. Mont. My-Jl. 



FAMILY 59. GROSSULARIACEAE. GOOSEBERRY FAMILY. 



Shrubs, with palmately veined leaf -blades; stipules none or adnate to the 

 petioles. Inflorescence racemose. Flowers regular, perfect. Hypanthium 

 more or less developed, from saucer-shaped to tubular. Sepals 5, rarely 4. 

 Petals as many as the sepals, small. Stamens as many as and alternate 

 with the petals, inserted in the mouth of the hypanthium. Gynoecium of 2 

 united carpels; ovary 1-celled, with 2 parietal placentae, inferior; styles 2. 

 Fruit a pulpy berry. * 



Leaf-blades plicate (folded like a fan) in vernation; flowers regular; style not inclined. 

 Plant armed with nodal spines and usually also bristly. 



Pedicels not jointed near the flowers; bractlets if present enclosed in the bract; 

 hypanthium-tube well developed, deeply campanulate to cylindric. 



1. GROSSULARTA. 

 Pedicels jointed below the short stipe-like base of the flower, bearing the bractlets 



just below the node; hypanthium-tube short, saucer -shaped. 



2. LlMNOBOTRYA. 



Plant unarmed; pedicels jointed just under the flowers; bractlets if present borne 



just under the node. 3. RIBES. 



Leaf-blades convolute (rolled in) in vernation; flowers slightly irregular; styles somewhat 

 declined. 4. CHRYSOBOTRYA. 



1. GROSSULARIA (Tourn.) Mill. GOOSEBERRIES. 



Shrubs, normally armed with simple or 3-forked nodal spines. Leaves in ours 

 rounded or reniform, or more or less pentagonal in outline, 3-5-clef t and crenate 

 or dentate. Flowers bracteate in few-flowered racemes; pedicels not jointed. 

 Hypanthium distinctly produced beyond the ovary; tube campanulate to cylin- 

 dric. Fruit a berry, with rather tough skin, in ours smooth, only somewhat 

 glandular-hispid in G. setosa, but in species from other regions often spiny. 



