TASTELESS MOUNTAIN CURRANT 



471 



longer than the pedicel and flower, like the peduncle, bearing 

 short, glandular-tipped hairs ; calyx flat, lobes ovate ; petals very 

 minute ; fruit smooth, scarlet, insipid or 

 sweetish. 



Original distribution. Mountains of 

 Europe and the Orient, in Siberia, Turk- 

 estan, Manchuria and Japan. 



Said to be in limited cultivation for 

 fruit in parts of Europe, improved forms:, 

 with both red and black 

 fruits, being known. It 

 has been grown at the 

 Arnold Arboretum, and is 

 reported* to possess some 

 ornamental value. 



35. R. VIBURNIFOLIUM, 



Gray. (Fig. 99.) 

 A straggling bush, 

 altogether unlike other 

 members of the genus; 

 bark grayish, cracking 

 away in rings; twigs, 

 peduncles, petioles and 

 under surface of the 



Fig. 99. Ribes viburni folium 



leaves beset with bright 

 yellowish, resinous dots; 

 leaves broadly ovate or 

 roundish, obtuse, scarcely 

 or not at all 3-lobed, sparsely crenate or dentate, the teeth 

 mucronate, thick, with -a peculiar pebbled, leathery appear- 



Fig. 98. Ribes alpinum (XI). 



*Garden and Forest, 6 : 245. 



