THE GARDEN CURRANT 469 



as long, 3-5-lobed, the sinuses extending one-half to two-thirds 

 the way to the base, the lobes coarsely erenate and the crenatures 

 unevenly but finely dentate -serrate; racemes erect, commonly 10- 

 20-flowered, the bracts herbaceous, lanceolate to obovate, com- 

 monly 2-4 millimeters long, persistent; flowers erect, contiguous, 

 when expanded 6-8 millimeters in diameter, on pedicels equaling 

 the bracts; ovary beset with short glandular hairs; calyx not pro- 

 duced into a tube, the spreading lobes oblong, obtuse or broadly 

 acute, yellow minutely dotted with red, therefore appearing sal- 

 mon-colored, sparingly and minutely pubescent without, glabrous 

 within; petals broadly spatulate, glabrous, one-third to one-half 

 the length of the calyx lobes and similar in color; filaments 

 glabrous; style glabrous, 2-parted; fruiting racemes erect or 

 sometimes declined by the weight of "the berries; fruit on erect 

 pedicels, scarlet, subpyriform to spherical, commonly 8-10 mil- 

 limeters in length, provided with short glandular hairs, the flesh 

 white or translucent, insipid." 



Collected in the vicinity of Crater Lake, Oregon. 



The authors state that the plant appears, from the structure of 

 its flowers, to be most nearly related to E. laxiflorum, from which it 

 is distinguishable by its creeping habit and its glandular pubes- 

 cence. In the latter character and in general appearance it resem- 

 bles B. viscosissinium, though possessing the rank odor of B. pros- 

 tratum and E. Hudsonianuni, which is quite distinct from the cit- 

 ronella-like smell of B. viscosissimum. 

 33. R. RUBRUM, Linn. Garden Currant. (Fig. 97.) 



Stems straggling or reclined; branches thick and stocky; 

 leaves somewhat heart-shaped, pubescent when young, beconjing 

 glabrous, moderately 3-5-lobed, the lobes roundish, serrate, the 

 teeth mucronate ; petioles broadened at the base, pubescent, 

 commonly with scattered, short, glandular-tipped hairs ; racemes 

 drooping, produced from lateral buds distinct from the leaf-buds ; 

 flowers small, yellowish green or purplish; calyx-tube broad, 

 saucer- shaped; lobes roundish; petals minute; stamens and 

 style very short, the latter 2-cleft; fruit round, shining, thin- 

 skinned, bright red, yellowish white, or even striped. 



Original distribution. — New England, west to Minnesota and far 

 northward; also in northern and middle Europe, the Orient and 

 Caucasus, Siberia, Manchuria and northern Japan to Kamschatka. 



Slight geographical variations occur, and all native North 

 American forms have been referred to a separate variety (var. 

 subglandulosum, Maxim.), but apparently without sufficient rea- 

 son. In cultivation, numerous variations occur, both in character 



