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BUSH-FRUITS 



greenish gray or brownish; leaves heart-shaped, 5-7-lobed; peti- 

 oles long, slender; racemes erect, slender; bracts small; flowers 

 small; calyx flattish; lobes obovate or roundish, greenish white 



or purplish ; petals spatulate 

 or fan-shaped, small, together 

 with the anthers often purple, 

 shorter than the calyx lobes; 

 stamens slightly longer than the 

 petals, and stout, 2-cleft style; 

 filaments thick ; ovary, pedicels 

 and peduncles covered with 

 glandular -tipped hairs; berry 

 glandular, hispid. 



From Labrador to the moun- 

 tains of North Carolina, 

 and westward to the 

 Pacific Ocean; also in 

 northeastern Asia, upon 

 the islands of Saghalien 

 and Yesso. 



West of the Rocky 

 Mountains the flowers 

 become somewhat larger 

 and more commonly purple, 

 with broader fan -shaped petals. 

 Both the plant and fruit emit a 

 disagreeable odor when bruised. 

 Thomas Howell, in "A Flora 

 of Northwest America," erects anew spe- 

 cies, under the name R. ciliosum, to cover 

 a form found in marshy ground at the 

 base of Mount Hood. 

 32. E. ERYTHROCARPUM,Coville & Leiburg. 

 This plant is described* as follows: 

 "Shrub trailing upon the ground, devoid 

 of prickles, the stems rooting and giving 

 rise to ascending branches commonly 10- 

 20 centimeters in height, the herbage 

 and inflorescence clothed with short 

 glandular hairs; leaves angulate- orbicular in outline, rugose, 

 commonly 2-3.5 centimeters in diameter, on petioles nearly 



Fig. 96. Ribes prostratum 



*Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 10:132. 



