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 form?, 

 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 viburnifolium 



leaves beset with bright 

 yellowish, resinous dots; 

 FiK.98. Ribes alpinum (Xl). 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- 



"Garden and Forest, 6 : 245. 



