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tasty, according to Pallas. On the herbarium specimens we find it 

 brownish and pale. Native of Siberia and northern Manchuria, on 

 exposed rock in the sun or in the woodlands in the high mountains of 

 Altai, Urugdei, Ssoyoutes Mountains and in the extreme east of Siberia 

 up to the Okhotsk Sea. R. fragrans is a neighbor of R. Jiudsonianum 

 and R. dikuscha, but it is well distinguished by the rounded kidney- 

 shaped leaves, leathery and rugose ; besides, it is an alpine or subalpine 

 plant of small size and very odorous. Its variety with pubescent leaves 

 has been described by Bunge under the name of R. graveolens. It is 

 smaller in all its parts than the Pallas type." {E. Janczewski, Mono- 

 graphic des Groseilliers, p. 343.) 



40437. Ribes beacteosum fuscescens Jancz. Black currant. 

 " 7336." 



This species is described as follows: "An unarmed deciduous shrub 

 6 to 8 feet high; young shoots smooth, except for a little loose down at 

 first. Leaves handsomely 5 or 7 lobed, 3 to 7 inches (sometimes more) 

 wide ; the lobes palmate, reaching half or more than half the way to the 

 midrib, sharply and irregularly toothed ; dotted with resin glands be- 

 neath ; bright green and soon quite smooth above; stalk slender, often 

 longer than the blade, smooth except for a few bristles at the base. 

 Racemes produced in May, erect, slender, up to 8 inches long, ^lowers 

 numerous, greenish yellow, erect, one-third inch across, each on a slender, 

 slightly downy stalk about one-fourth inch long. Currants erect, resin 

 dotted, globose, one-third inch diameter, black with a blue-white bloom. 



" Native of western North America ; discovered by Douglas in 1826. 

 An interesting species of the black currant {nigrum) group, very distinct 

 in its large maplelike leaves (occasionally 10 inches across) and long, 

 slender, erect racemes. Rarely seen but quite hardy at Kew." (W. J, 

 Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Ises, vol. 2, p. 399.) 



40438. X Ribes etjttjkum Jancz. Red currant. 

 " 7423. Vulgar e macrocarpum 2 X warszewiczii $ ." 



" Robust shrub, young shoots stained with red, glabrous, sometimes 

 dotted with a few glandular hairs. Leaves rather large, rounded, up to 11 

 cm. long and 12 cm. broad, 3 to 5 lobed, cordate at the base, subglabrous. 

 Flowers almost rotate, pale, flesh colored or washed with brownish cop- 

 per. Fruit rather large size, purple or deep red, subacid. Ripens at the 

 end of June and in July. Insertion of the withered flower pentagonal. We 

 have produced this hybrid by fertilizing in 1903 R. vulgare macrocarpum 

 (Red Versailles currant) with R. warszewiczii. It is almost intermediate 

 between the parents, but has drawn more from the mother in the form of 

 the flower and the anthers, more from the father in the coloration of the 

 flower and the nonlobed receptacle. The calloused swelling of the recep- 

 tacle is completely intermediate in its form and its elevation." (E. 

 Janczewski, Monographic des Groseilliers, p. 478.) 



40439. Ribes glaciaee Wallich. Currant. 



" 7380." 



" Shrub from 3 to 5 meters, the young shoots red or washed with red, 

 glabrous, or dotted with short hairs. Buds oblong, red or reddish in 

 autumn. Development and flowering very early. Habit of R. alpinum. 

 Leaves rather small, length and breadth up to 6 cm. rounded or ovoid, 

 usually 3 to 5 lobed, the posterior lobes often very small, the middle one 



