GOLDEN CURRANT 



This species is rarely cultivated. In general ap- 

 pearance, and in flavor of fruit it resembles the Black 

 Currant, Ribes nigrum, of the garden. It forms a 

 graceful spreading bush, with luxuriant foliage and 

 long, drooping racemes both of flowers and of fruit. 



GOLDEN CURRANT. BUFFALO OR MISSOURI 

 CURRANT 



Rlbes aureum. 



A bush of long, slender, upright or curving stems, growing 

 along streams. Ranges from Minnesota to Missouri and Texas, 

 westward to Oregon and California. Common in cultivation. 



Leaves. Alternate or tufted, one to one and a half inches 

 long, simple, palmately veined, three to five-lobed, often broader 

 than long, wedge-shaped or heart-shaped, or rounded at base ; 

 lobes rounded, toothed or entire ; midvein and primary veins con- 

 spicuous. They come out of the bud convolute, pale green, downy 

 and shining; when full grown are bright yellow green above, paler 

 green beneath. Leaves of bearing shoots are commonly three 

 lobed ; lobes often short, broad, and entire. The autumnal tint 

 is yellow dashed with red, and they change and drop compara- 

 tively early. 



Flowers. April, May. Perfect, yellow, cylindrical, borne in 

 short, loose, leafy-bracted racemes. Fragrant, charged with 

 nectar. 



Calyx. Coherent with the ovary ; bright yellow, smooth ; 

 tube cylindric, one-half to 'an inch long, with five, spreading, re- 

 curved lobes. 



Corolla. Petals five, small, yellow with pink tips, inserted on 

 the throat of the calyx. 



Stamens. Five, inserted on the calyx throat and alternate with 

 the petals, slightly exserted. 



Pistil. Ovary inferior, one-celled ; style long and slender, ex- 

 serted ; stigma capitate. 



Fruit. Globose berry, black, sometimes yellowish black, 

 glabrous, shining, crowned with the remnant of the calyx, in- 

 sipid. August. 



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