No. 14.] FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS. 219 



1842), Salisbury, wet cold woods about Bingham Pond 

 (Bissell). May — June. 



Ribes prostratum L'Her. (prostrate). 

 Skunk, Fetid or Mountain Currant. 



Rare. Swampy woods: Colebrook (Weatherby), Norfolk 

 (J. H. Barbour), Salisbury (Mrs. C. S. Phelps). May — 

 June. 



Ribes vulgare Lam. (common). 



Ribes rubrum of Britton's Manual in part. 

 Garden Red or Red Currant. Wine Currant. 



Occasional. Escaped from cultivation to fence-rows, road- 

 sides and waste places throughout ; also occurs in rocky woods 

 and on borders of swamps in wild and remote places in the 

 northern part of the state, appearing as if native in such situa- 

 tions, although the species is regarded as introduced in 

 America. Late April — May ; fruit mid- June — July. Natural- 

 ized from Europe. 



A well known small fruit in cultivation. It is an interest- 

 ing fact that in Southington the same plant is growing in the 

 same rock crevice where it was fifty-five years ago (Andrews) . 



Ribes odoratum Wendland (fragrant). 

 Ribes cmreum of authors, not Pursh. 

 Missouri, Buffalo, Flowering, Clove, Sweet or Golden Currant. 



Rare. Escaped from cultivation to roadsides and about 

 old houses: Montville (Graves), Scotland (G. Waldo), Ox- 

 ford (Harger), Easton and Danbury (Eames), New Milford 

 (Eames & E. H. Austin). Mid-April — May ; fruit late July 

 — Aug. Adventive from the West. 



The fruit is edible. Often cultivated as an ornamental 

 shrub. 



HAMAMELIDACEAE. WITCH-HAZEL FAMILY. 

 HAMAMELIS L. Witch-hazel. 



Hamamelis virginiana L. 



Witch-hazel. Spotted, Witch or Snapping Alder. 



Common. Moist or wet often rocky places. Sept. — Oct. 

 In some situations it is a valuable shrub for late-flowering 



