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under the specific group.' "We ^re not much concerned with the 

 European sorts and the specific classification is quite sufiicient 

 for them. 



THE CtTEEANTS. 



No thorns or pricMes, and the flowers numerous in the 

 racemes. 



* Flowers greenish or whitish, small. 



-i— Leaves without resinous dots; calyx fiat and open; ber- 

 ries red (or white). 



B. rubrum, Linn. Gaeden Cueeant. — Cultivated from 

 Europe, with straggling or reclining stems, somewhat heart- 

 shaped moderately 3-5-lobed leaves; the lobes roundish, and 

 drooping racemes from lateral buds distinct from the leaf -buds ; 

 edible berries red, or white ; also a striped variety. 



H — \— Leaves sprinkled with resinous dots; flowers larger, 

 with ohlong hell-shaped calyx; berries larger, blacTc, aromatic 

 and spicy, glandular-dotted. 



B. nigrum, Linn. Gaeden Black Cueeant. — Cultivated 

 from Europe; much like the preceding, but has greener and 

 fewer flowers in the raceme, minute bracts, and a shorter calyx. 



* * Flowers highly colored (red or yellow), much larger. 



B. aiireum, Pursh. GoLDEiir^ Buffaio^ Missouei or Cean- 

 DALL CuEEANT. — ^From Mo. to Ore. ; abundantly cultivated for 

 its spicy-scented bright yellow flowers in early spring ; smooth, 

 with rounded 3-lobed and cut-toothed leaves (which are rolled 

 up in the bud), short racemes with leafy bracts, and tube of the 

 yellow calyx very much longer than the spreading lobes; the 

 berries blackish, usually insipid. 



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