248 GROSSULACEiE. Ribes. 



& 2. RiBESiA, Berland. Stems neither ■prickly nor spiny : racemes several-flowered : calyx cam- 

 panv late or cylindrical : berries not prickly. (Currant.) 



4. Ribes floridum, VHerit. Wild Black Currant. 



Leaves sprinkled on both sides with resinous dots, acutely 3 - 5-lobed, pubescent ; racemes 

 pendulous, villous ; bracts longer than the pedicels ; calyx tubular-campanulate, smooth, the 

 segments about as long as the tube ; style undivided ; fruit smooth. — VHerit. stirp. 1. p. 4 ; 

 Torr. Jl.l. p. 267 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 90 ; DC. prodr. 3. p. 482 ; Guimp. Otto ^ Hayne, 

 holz. 1. 1 ; Hook.Jl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 233 ; Darlingt.fl. Cest. p. 160 ; Torr. ^ Gr.fl. N. Am. 1. 

 p. 549. R. nigrum, /3., Linn, R. recurvatum, MicIlx. fl. 1. p. 110. R. Pennsylvanicum, 

 Lam. diet. 3. p. 49. 



Stem 3-4 feet high : branches somewhat recurved, covered with a grayish bark. Leaves 

 2-3 inches in diameter, with spreading acutely toothed lobes, slightly sprinkled with minute 

 yellowish dots : petioles as long as the lamina, pubescent, and fringed towards the base with 

 long compound hairs. Racemes about 3 inches long, many-flowered, retrorsely pubescent. 

 Calyx yellowish green. Petals greenish-yellow, oblong. Stamens included. Style scarcely 

 exserted, sulcate : stigma slightly 2-cleft. Berries roundish-ovoid, a little smaller than the 

 cultivated Black Currant, which it resembles in taste and odor ; nearly black when mature. 



Borders of woods, fences, etc., sometimes in low grounds ; common. Fl. May. Fr. July 

 - August. Flowers larger than in any of the preceding species. 



5. Ribes prostratum, VHerit. Fetid Currant. 



Stems reclining or prostrate ; leaves deeply cordate, 5 - 7-lobed ; the lobes somewhat 

 ovate, acute, spreading, incisely and doubly serrate ; racemes erect, slender ; bracts much 

 shorter than the bristly-glandular pedicels ; calyx hemispherical, the segments obovate ; petals 

 spatulate, very small ; style deeply 2-parted ; fruit glandular-hispid. — VHerit. stirp. 1. p. 3. 

 t. 2 ; Pursh, /. 1. p. 163 ; Torr. fl. 1. p. 268 ; DC. prodr. 3. p. 482 ; Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. 

 I. p. 232; Torr. ^ Gr.fl. N. Am. I. p. 5.50. R. glandulosum. Ait. Kew. (ed. l.)l. p. 279. 

 R. rigens, Michx. fl. \. p. 110 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 90. 



Stems 1-3 feet long, prostrate and rooting, with somewhat erect branches. Leaves 2-3 

 inches in diameter, lobed nearly to the middle, smooth above, strigoscly pubescent underneath. 

 Racemes 8 - 13-f.owered, at first erect, in fruit somewhat pendulous. Calyx greenish, with 

 purple veins : segments broad and spreading. Petals and anthers purplish. Fruit red, the 

 size of a large currant, hispid with glandular hairs, of a rank odor when bruised. 



Rocky places in the northern and western part of the State. Fl. May. Fr. July. 



