156 POPULAR FLORA. 



1. Garden GoosEBEKRY. Thorns large; flower-stalks short; berry bristly or smooth. R. Uva-ci^iigoa. 



2. Prickly Wild G. Thorns slender or none ; flowers greenish, long-stalked; stamens and style not 



projecting; berry prickly; leaves downy. Woods, N. -/2- Cynoshati. 



3. Small Wild G. Thorns very short or none; flowers purplish or greenish, very short-stalked ; sta- 



mens and 2-cleft Btyle a httle projecting ; berry small, smooth. Low grounds, N. R. hirtellwn. 



4. Smooth Wild G. Thorns stout or none ; flowers greenish, on slender stalks; stamens and the two 



styles very long and projecting (*' long); berry smooth. Woods, common W. E. roiundifblium. 



Currant. Ribes. 

 Stems neither thorny nor prickly. Flowers in racemes, appearing in early -spring. Berries small. 



1. Red Currant. Leaves rounded heart-shaped and somewhat lobed; racemes from lateral separate 



buds, hanging ; flowers flat, greenish or purplish ; berry smooth, red, and a white variety. Gar- 

 dens, &c. Wild on Mountains, N. R. riibrum. 



2. Fetid C. Stems reclined; leaves deeply heart-shaped, 5-lobed; racemes erect; flowers greenish, 



flattish ; pale red berry and its stalk bristly, strong-smelling. Cold woods, N. R. prostratum. 



3. Wild Black C. Leaves on long foot-stalks, slightly heart-shaped, sharply lobed, sprinkled with 



dots both sides ; racemes rather drooping ; flowers oblong, yellowish-white ; ben-ies oblong, black, 

 rather spicy. Wooded banks. R. fidi-idum. 



4. Garden Black C. Leaves on shorter footstalks, less dotted; racemes looser, and black berries 



larger than in No. 3. Gardens. R. nigrum. 



6. Missouri or Buffalo C. Leaves smooth; racemes with leafy bracts; flowers (calyx) long and 



tubular, bright yellow, spicy-fragrant. Cultivated for ornament. R. aiireum. 



41 STONECROP FAMILY. Order CRASSULACE^. 



Herbs with thick and fleshy leaves (except in one pe- 

 culiar plant of the family, viz. the Ditchwort) ; the flowers 

 remarkable for being perfectly regular and symmetrical 

 throughout, i. e. having the sepals, petals, and pistils all of 

 the same number and all separate, or nearly so (except 

 in Ditchwort) ; the stamens also of the same number, or 

 just twice as many. Pods containing few or many seeds. 

 Mostly small plants : several are found in gardens. 



378. Flower of Stonecrop. 



Flowers with petals, and their pistils entirely separate from each other. 



Sepals, narrow petals, and pistils 4 or B. Stamens 8 or 10, ( Sedum) Stonecrop. 



Sepals, petals, and pistils 6 to 20. Stamens 12 to 40, (Sempervimim) Houseleek. 



Flowers with B sepals, no petals, and 5 pistils grown together below. Leaves thin, lance- 

 shaped, (.Penthorum) DiTCHWOKT. 



Stonecrop or Orpine. Sedum. 

 1. Mossy Stonecrop. Small and creeping, moss-like; the stems thickly covered with little ovate 

 thick and closely sessile leaves ; flowers yellow. Cultivated for garden edging, &o. 8. acre. 



