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3. TEL.L.IMA. (Includes Lithophragma.) Star-Flower. 

 Slender, erect herbs, perennial from a cluster of pink-tinged 

 bulblets. Leaves round-cordate in outline. Inflorescence a 

 slender terminal raceme or spike. Sepals 5; petals 5, clawed; 

 white or rose-color. Stamens 10, included. Styles 2-3, short. 

 Ovary 1-celled, with 3 parietal placentae. 



Ovary free (except at base) from the bell-shaped calyx- 

 tube. 



Stem-leaves seldom bulb-bearing in the axils; sti- 

 pules long- and narrow, not fringed.... 1. T. teuella 

 Stem-leaves usually bulb-bearing in the axils; sti- 

 pules short, broad and fringed 2. T. bulbifera 



Ovary adnate for half its length to the elongated- 



obconical calyx-tube 3. T. parviflora 



1. T. teuella (Nutt.) Walp. (L. australis Rydb.) Stems 

 4-8 inches high, glandular-puberulent. Leaves 3-5-cleft, the 

 segments again cleft. Flowers 3-12. Petals 3-7-cleft or parted. 

 Seeds smooth. Rich soil of mountain sides. April-June. 



2. T. bulbifera (Rydb.) A. Nels. (T. tenella S. Wats.; L. 

 bulbifera Rydb.) Stem 4-8 inches high, abundantly glandular- 

 puberulent. Leaves divided to or near the base, the segments 

 wedge-shaped or obovate, 3-cleft. Flowers 3-6, some or all 

 replaced by red bulblets; the pedicels longer than the frxiit. 

 Petals 3-5-cleft. Seeds muricate. In rich black loam of moun- 

 tain sides. March -July. 



3. T. parviflora Hook. (L. parviflora (Hook.) Nutt.) Plant 

 rarely producing bulblets among the flowers or in the axils 

 of the leaves. Stem 4-12 inches high, scape-like, glandular- 

 puberulent. Leaves palmately divided into 3-5-cleft or parted 

 segments. Petals deeply 3-5-cleft into narrow segments. In 

 rich moist soil of mountain sides, usually in light shade. 

 April-June. 



4. RIBES. Gooseberry; Currant. 



Shrubs with alternate, palmately-veined and palmately- 

 lobed leaves. Inflorescence solitary or racemose. Calyx 

 5-lobed; often colored and usually reflexed. Petals 5, erect; 

 smaller than the calyx r lobes. Styles 2; distinct or united. 

 Ovary 1-celled with 2 parietal placentae. Fruit a smooth or 

 prickly berry, often with the remains of the withered 'flower 

 at its apex. 



Stems usually armed with spines and sometimes with 



prickles 1. R. saxosum 



Stems neither thorny nor prickly. 



Blowers yellow; spicy-fragrant 2. R. aureum 



Flowers white, pink or greenish; not spicy-fragrant. 



Calyx-tube not cylindrical 3. R. Hudsonianum 



Calyx-tube cylindrical. 



Leaves small; berries red or orange. < . 4. R. cereum 

 Leaves large; berry black 5. R. viscosissimum 



1. R. saxosum Hook. (R. inerme Rydb.; R. vallicola Greene; 

 R. oxj^acanthoides irriguum Jancz.) Mountain Gooseberry. A 

 bush with grayish, glabrous branches usually without bristles; 

 spines at the nodes few or sometimes wanting. Leaves rather 

 thin; averaging iy 2 inches in diameter; rounded in outline, 

 with the base cordate, truncate or rarely obtuse; 3-5-lobed, 

 the lobes crenate. Peduncles 1-4-flowered. Calyx shorter 

 than the hypanthium; its lobes greenish or sometimes pur- 

 plish. Petals white or pinkish, about a third as long as the 



