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BUSH-FRUITS 



42. B. SANGUINEUM, Pursh. Bed -flowered Currant. (Fig. 104.) 



An erect, branching shrub, 2-12 feet (1-4 meters) high- with 

 red, smooth branches; young twigs and petioles pubescent or 

 glandular -hairy; leaves round -cordate, 2-4 inches (5-10 cm.) 



Fig. 103. Ribes viscossissimum (X%). 



broad, 3-5-lobed, doubly serrate, minutely pubescent above, downy 

 or smooth beneath, petioles long, dilated and ciliate at base; 

 racemes long, pendulous; bracts obovate, red or whitish, mem- 

 branous, usually as long as the pedicel; calyx tube campanulate 

 or short cylindrical, lobes obovate, broad, about as long as the 

 tube, purple-red or rose-colored; petals spatulate, commonly 

 white, somewhat shorter than the calyx lobes, equaling the 



