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BUSH-FRUITS 



Collected on the Mogollon Mountains, New Mexico. 

 This is plainly the western representative of R. Americanum. 

 It appears to differ chiefly in the shorter and more erect racemes, 



Fig. 108. Ribes aureum (XX) . Fig. 109. Ribes aureum t enuiflorum ( X%) . 



and in the glandular character of the ovaries and margins of the 

 bracts. 



49. R. AUREUM, Pursh. Missouri, Flowering, Golden, or Buffalo 



Currant. (Fig. 108.) 



Free-growing shrub, 4-6 feet (1-2 meters) high, sprouting from 

 the roots; branches graceful and drooping; young shoots very mi- 

 nutely pubescent ; leaves firm, smooth and shining, densely covered, 



