PRICKLY CURRANT 



Ribes lacustre (Persoon) Poiret 



The prickly currant is a beautiful bush when in bloom. Its graceful 

 branches are then ornamented with dainty racemes of yellowish flow- 

 ers, shaded with red, and the delicate green leaves are of a tint best 

 suited to show them off to perfection. When growing on a steep slope, 

 with full exposure to the sun, the plant is so pleasing that one wonders 

 why it has not been transplanted to cultivated gardens. 



Prickly currant is found from Pennsylvania to Newfoundland and 

 from California to Alaska. 



The specimen sketched was collected on the slopes of Mt. Wapta, 

 ten miles by trail from Field, British Columbia, at an altitude of 7,000 

 feet 



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