Genus i. 



GOOSEBERRY FAMILY. 



239 



8. Ribes odoratum Wendl. Golden, Buffalo or Missouri Currant. Fig. 2204. 



R. odoratum Wendl. in Bartl. & Wendl. Beitr. 2: 15. 

 1825. 



Unarmed. Petioles rather slender, pubescent; 

 leaves convolute in the bud, at length glabrous, often 

 broader than long, thick, 3-lobed or sometimes 

 5-lobed, broadly cuneate or truncate at the base, the 

 lobes obtuse, few-toothed or entire; racemes leafy- 

 bracted, few-flowered, the rachis and pedicels vil- 

 lous ; flowers bright yellow, spicy-scented, 6"-i2" 

 long; calyx-tube cylindric, glabrous, 2-3 times as 

 long as the oval spreading lobes; petals i"-i*" long; 

 stamens slightly exserted ; fruit black, glabrous, 

 3"-5" in diameter. 



Along streams, Minnesota and South Dakota to Mis- 

 souri and Texas. Common in cuhivation. Clove- or 

 flowering-current. April-May. 



2. GROSSULARIA [Tourn.] Mill. Card. Diet Abr. Ed. 4. 1754. 



Shrubs, with erect ascending or trailing branches, the nodes armed with simple or 

 3-forked spines, rarely spineless. Racemes i-few-flowered. Pedicels not jointed. Hypan- 

 thium evident. Fruit not disarticulating from the pedicel. [Ancient name of the gooseberry.] 



About 55 species, natives of the north temperate zone. Besides the following, some 30 others 

 occur in the western states. Type species : Ribes Grossularia L. 



Ovary bristly ; fruit prickly. 



Ovary glabrous, pubescent, or with stalked glands. 

 Flowers white ; filaments long. 

 Flowers green or purplish ; filaments shorter. 

 Stamens equalling the petals. 



Calyx-tube (hypanthium) tubular. 

 Calyx-tube (hypanthium) campanulate. 

 Stamens twice as long as the petals or longer. 

 Ovary villous. 



Ovary glabrous or with some stalked glands. 

 Calyx-lobes twice as long as the tube. 

 Calyx-lobes about as long as the tube. 



1. G. Cynosbati. 



2. G. missouriensis. 



3. G. sctosa. 



4. G, oxyacanthoides, 



5. G. reclinata. 



6. G. rotundifolia. 



7. G. hirtella. 



I. Grossularia Cynosbati (L.) Mill. Wild Gooseberry. Dogberry. Fig. 2205. 



Ribes Cynosbati L. Sp. PI. 202. 1753. 



Grossularia Cynosbati Mill. Card. Diet. Ed. 8, No. 5. 



1768. 

 Ribes Cynosbati glabratum Fernald, Rhodora 7: 156. 



1905. 



Nodal spines slender, solitary or sometimes 

 2-3 together, erect or spreading, 3"-6" long, or 

 often wanting. Prickles of the branches few 

 and weak or none; petioles 6"-l8" long, slender, 

 generally pubescent; leaflets nearly orbicular, i'- 

 2' broad, pubescent, at least when young, truncate 

 or cordate at the base, deeply 3-5-lobed, the lobes 

 crenate-dentate or incised ; peduncles and pedicels 

 slender; flowers 1-3, green, 3"-4" long; calyx- 

 lobes oblong, shorter than the ovoid tube; sta- 

 mens not exserted ; berry 4"-6" in diameter, with 

 few or many subulate prickles. 



In rocky woods, New Brunswick, south, especially 

 along the Alleghanies to North Carolina, west to 

 Manitoba, Alabama and Missouri. Prickly wild- 

 gooseberry. Dog-bramble. April-June. 



