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3-4. Fruit a berry, crowned with the remains of the flower, 

 1-celled, usually many-seeded. Seeds anatropous, the raphe at 

 length distinct fiom the gelatinoiis testa : the inner integument 

 somewhat crustaceous, adhering flrmly to the fleshy albumen. 

 Embryo minute excentric. 



I RIBES Juss. Gen. 28L. L. Gen. li. 281. 



Shrubs with alternate palmately veined and lobed leaves, the 

 flowers in few to many-flowered racemes. Calyx campanulate, 

 4-.5-cleft with mostly equal marcesceut lobes. Petals distinct as 

 many as the lobes of the calyx and alternate with them. S tamens 

 as many as petals, inserted alternately with them into the throat 

 of the calyx. Ovary 1-celled, closely adnate to the tube of the 

 calyx, with 2 parietal mostly many-ovuled placentae. Fruit a berry. 



§ 1 SiPHOCALYx Berlandier Mem. Soc. Gnev. iii, t. 2 as 

 genus. Stems neither prickly nor thorny: leaves convolute in 

 the bud: racemes many-Howered: bracts foliaceous : flowers yellow; 

 calyx long and tubular : berries smooth. 



K. ani-enui Pursh Fl. 164. A smooth shrub 4-8 feet high : leaves 

 3-lobed, often broader than long, the lobes usually divaricate, few-toothed 

 at the apex, ciliate when young, otherwise very glabrous: racemes lii-30- 

 flowered, leafy at base; bracts lanceolate, more or less acuminate, 2-6 lines 

 long or more, about equalling the pedicels : calyx yellow, tubular, the nar- 

 row tube 6-8 lines long, about twice as long as the oblong merely spreadina; 

 lobes; petals cuneiform, truncate and erose-dentaie at the apex, little more 

 than a line long: berritK yellow or black, 2-3 lines in diameter. On rocky 

 banlis along streams, eastern Oregon and Washington to Missouri and 

 Arkansas, 



R. teunifloruiii Lindl. Hort Trans, vii, 242. A slender shrub 6-12 

 feet high, glabrous or the young branches and leaves pubescent with 

 spreading hairs : leaves round-cordate, ,^-iobed, the lobes often again 2-3- , 

 lobed, crenate at the apex, 1-3 inches in diameter: racemes usually about 

 9-flowered, leafy at base: bracts foliaceous, broadly lanceolate, 6-9 lines 

 long, usually longer than the pedicels; calyx-tube 7-8 lines long, by a line 

 in diameter, the unequal lobes about 3 lines long bj- less than a line broad : 

 petals about a line long, narrowly o long, narrowed below to a broad 

 claw: berries 2-3 lines in diameter. Along streams, southern Oregon and 

 adjacent California. 



§ 2 RrBESiA Berlandier (Corrant). Stems neither prickly nor 

 spiny : leaves plicate in the bud: racemes sev^eral-flowered : calyx 

 campanulate or cylindrical: ovules numerous, in 2 or more rows. 



* Ualyx produced into a campanulate or cylindrical tube: fruit 

 and foliage more or less glandular : bracts conspicuous : stamens not 

 produced beyond the petals. 



■*- Flowers dull white or light-colored; racemes corymb-like and few- 

 flowered. 



R. viscosissimnin Pursh Fl. 163. A shrub 3-5 feet high with reddish 

 shredy bark and stiffish branches : young branches, leaves and inflores- 

 cence viscid-pubescent: leaves round-cordate, shallowly 3-lobed, incisely 

 crenate, 1-2 inches in diameter : racemes short; bracts spatulate, 6-8 lines 

 ong, about equalling the glandular pedicels ; calyx-tube cylindrical, 5-6 



