422 WOODY PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
hairy. Peduncles slender, nodding, pubescent. Fruit dark purple, unpleasant 
to the taste. This species differs from the other native gooseberries in its 
many-flowered racemes.—Flora. 
Dr, Bigelow describes it as a handsome shrub with dissected leaves. The 
older branches are smooth, with one or more deflexed, axillary spines. Young 
branches hispid, with small, reflexed prickles. Petioles slender, villous, with 
scattered hairs. Leaves deeply 5-lobed; the lobes cut and toothed like those 
of some geraniums.—Forula, 91. 
Striking for its very deeply cut leaves. 
Found in mountainous swamps from New York and Massachusetts, north to 
near the Arctic circle ; and in the mountains of Oregon and California.—Flora. 
Sp. 5. Tue Larce-rLowerne Currant. R. fidridum. L’ Héritier. 
Leaves sprinkled on both sides with resinous dots, sharply 3—5-lobed, sub- 
cordate ; the lobes acute, doubly serrate ; racemes pendulous, pubescent ; bracts 
linear, longer than the pedicels; calyx tubular-bell-shaped, glabrous; the seg- 
ments oblong-spatulate, about the length of the tube; style undivided; finit 
ovoid-globose, black, glabrous.—Flora, N. A., I, 549. 
Dr. Bigelow says of it: This isa common wild currant, having its leaves 
generally in five lobes, toothed at the edge and covered on both suifaces with 
small, whitish, glandular points, just visible to the naked eye. Petioles fringed 
with compound hairs. Racemes pendulous, downy, many-flowered. Calyx 
tubular-campanulate, with recurvedsegments. Petals greenish-white, straight, 
a little reflexed at point. Fruit black, watery and insipid. Woods. May.— 
Florula, 90. 
Found in woods from Canada, in latitude 54°, to Virginia and Kentucky.— 
Flora. 
Sp. 6. Tae Mountar Currant. &. prostrdtum. LL’ Heritier. 
Stems reclined; leaves deeply cordate, glabrous, 5—7-lobed; the lobes 
somewhat ovate, acute, incisely doubly serrate; racemes erect, slender; bracts 
small, much shorter than the bristly, glandular pedicels; calyx rotate, the seg- 
ments obovate ; style deeply 2-cleft; petals spatulate, very small; ovaies and 
fruit clothed with glandular bristles ; fruit roundish, red.—JVora, N. A. 549. 
Dr. Bigelow describes it: Stem procumbent, 1ooting. Leaves mostly five- 
lobed, toothed, smooth on both sides, the veins of the younger ones pubescent 
beneath. Racemes erect, the peduncles and germ covered with glandular hairs. 
Calyx hemispherical, the segments patulous, greenish with purple strie, Pe- 
tals wedge-shaped, shorter than the calyx. Stamens converging, anthers 
black. Style as long as the stamens, bifid. Berries hairy. 
The berries when bruised have the odor of Skunk’s Cabbage.—Florula, 90. 
Found on hills and rocky places from Newfoundland, and throughout Can- 
ada, from latitude 57°, to Pennsylvania, and west to Lake Superior and the 
Rocky Mountains.—Flora. 
