FETID CURRANT 



SWAMP GOOSEBERRY 



Rtbes lactistre. 



Upright, the twigs and branches densely bristly, with straight 

 slender prickles; spines weak, single, or several in a whorl, es- 

 pecially on young growth. In swamps and cold, wet woods. 

 Ranges from Newfoundland to Pennsylvania, west across the 

 continent. 



Leaves. Nearly orbicular, heart-shaped at base, thin, pubes- 

 cent along the veins beneath, deeply five to seven-lobed, one 

 to two inches wide ; lobes incised-dentate, acutish ; vernation 

 plicate. 



Flowers. May, June. Small, perfect, greenish, borne in a 

 nodding many-flowered raceme. Pedicels short, bracted at the 

 base. Calyx greenish white, saucer-shaped, glandular-bristly ; 

 the lobes short, broad, and spreading. Petals fan-shaped, red- 

 dish, nearly as long as the calyx-lobes. Stamens short ; anthers 

 very short, each half-divided. Pistil cleft at summit ; ovary 

 glandular-hairy. 



Fruit. Berry, about one-sixth of an inch in diameter, reddish, 

 covered with weak prickles, unpleasant. July, August. 



FETID CURRANT. PROSTRATE CURRANT 



Rlbes prostratum. 



A shrub with recumbent or prostrate stems, trailing and root- 

 ing ; branches erect, thornless and without prickles ; found in 

 cold, damp woods. Ranges from Labrador, throughout New 

 England and along the mountains to North Carolina, and west- 

 ward to the Pacific Ocean ; also in northeastern Asia and upon 

 the islands of Japan. 



Leaves. Alternate, orbicular, two to three inches wide, cor- 

 date at base, palmately veined, five to seven-lobed ; lobes ovate, 

 acute, dentate-serrate ; vernation plicate. Petioles slender, one 

 to three inches long, base dilated. 



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