70 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



s-lender petioles, roundish heart-shaped, S-B-lohed, Ped- 

 uncles slender f 2 — B- flowered. Berry covered with long 

 prickles. — Open woods and clearings. 



2. R. oxyaeanthoi'des, L. (iJ. /iJrieZ^MOT, Michx.) (Small 

 Wild Gooseberry. ) Stems with very short thorns or none. 

 Peduncles very short, 1-2-flowered. Stamens shorter than 

 the hroadly oblong calyx-lobes. Berry small, smooth. — Low 

 grounds. 



3. R. rotundifo'lium, Michx. Like the last, but the 

 stamens are longer than the narrowly oblong-spathula'.e calyx- 

 lobes. — Chiefly eastward. 



4. R. laeus'tre, Poir. (Swamp Goosbbbkry.) Shrubby. 

 Young stems prickly, and thorny at the bases of the leaves. 

 XiQ'SiyG^ GovdiQjtQ, deeply 3-5-lohed, the lobes dee ply cut . Baceiries 

 4-9-flowered, slender, nodding. Fruit bristly. — Swamps and 

 wet woods. 



5. R. flOP'idum, L. (Wild Black Currant.) Stems and 

 fruit without prickles or thorns. Leaves resinous - dotted , 

 sharply 3-5-lobed, doubly serrate. Eacemes many-flowered, 

 drooping. Calyx bell-shaped. Fruit black, smooth. - 

 Woods. 



6. R. PUbrum, L. (Wild Bed Currant.) A low shrub 

 with straggling stems. Leaves obtusely 3-5-lobed. Racemes 

 from lateral buds separate from the leaf-buds, drooping, 

 Calyx flat. Fruit red, smooth. — Bogs and wet woods. 



7. R. prostra'tum, L'Her. (Fetid Currant.) Stems re- 

 clined. Leaves deeply cordate, 5-7-lobed, smooth, the lobes 

 ovate, acute, doubly serrate. Eacemes erect, slender, the 

 flowers greenish. Fruit pale red, glandular-bristly. — Cold 

 damp woods and rocks. 



8. R. HudSOnia'num, Eichards. Like the last, but with 

 white flowers crowded in the erect raceme, and darker and 

 smooth fruit. — N. W. Also in central Ontario. 



8. PARNAS'SIA, Tourn. GuASS OF Parnassus. 

 1. P. Carolinia'na, Michx. Petals sessile, very veiny 

 Sterile iVaments 3 in each set. Leaves ovate or roun<iet! 



