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The Gooseberry Family (Grossulariaceae) is too well 

 known to need special description. There are seven native 

 species of Wild Currant (Ribes spp.) to be found in the 

 mountains of New Mexico, two or three of which occur mainly 

 about timber line. A single species (Ribes aureum) with sweet 

 scented yellow flowers, is worth cultivation for its flowers 

 alone. It is already well known in cultivation, generally going 

 under the name of Golden Currant or the Missouri Cur- 

 rant. The other species are of no economic importance, but 

 their abundance in themountain regions of our State strongly 

 suggests the desirability of growing the cultivated species in 

 such localities. 



There are three native species of Gooseberries (Grossu- 

 laria spp.) that occur in the mountains of this State. None 

 of these are of any economic importance, but their abundance 

 and thriftiness add to the sugestion just made. Both goose- 

 berries and currants are grown successfully in the mountains 

 of the State in a number of places, and if more interest were 

 taken in the growing of small fruits for market there would 

 be less reason for shipping in so many from other states; for 

 they will nearly all grow in the mountains at levels of from 

 6,000 to 9,000 feet if given water. 



GROSSULARIACEAE. Gooseberry Family 

 Shrubs with mostly erect or spreading habit and often bristly 

 or spiny stems; leaves alternate, simple, petiolate, broadly ovate to 

 rotund, more or less lobed and toothed; inflorescence terminal on 

 short lateral branches ; racemose or the raceme reduced to a single 

 flower; flowers regular, perfect (rarely unisexual) ; hypanthium elon- 

 gated, short, or obsolete; sepals, petals and stamens 5, alternate; 

 ovary 1-celled; fruit a berry. 



Stems mostly without nodal spines or bristles; 

 pedicels jointed beneath the ovary; fruit 

 fruit not breaking from the pedicels. 1. Ribes. 



Stems with nodal spines, with or without bris- 

 -tles, pedicels not jointed beneath the ovary; 

 breaking from the pedicel. 2. Grossularia, | 



