PLANTS OF NORTH ELBA 



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Chrysosplenium Americanum Schw. 



Golden saxifrage. Water carpet 



Wet places. Occasional. Woods between the south end of Lake 

 Placid and Newman. Banks of the Ausable above Brewster's mill. 



RIBES 



Flowers in racemes 1 



Flowers not in racemes 2 



1 Stems armed with stiff bristles lacustre 



I Stems unarmed prostratum 



2 Fruit prickly Cynosbati 



2 Fruit smooth 3 



3 Flowers 2-3 lines long, stamens included oxyacanthoides 



3 Flowers 3-4 lines long, stamens exserted rotundifolia 



Ribes lacustre (Pers.) Poir. 

 Swamp gooseberry 

 Swamps and wet places. Common. June. 



Ribes prostratum LHer. 

 Fetid currant 



Damp woods and rocky places. Common. June. This species 

 ascends nearly to the top of Mt Mclntyre. Its stems are not always 

 prostrate as the specific name might indicate. The peculiar odor of the 

 plant is characteristic and is specially perceptible if the plant is bruised or 

 broken. 



Ribes Cynosbati L. 



Wild gooseberry. Dogberry 



Thin woods and bushy places. Common. June and July. The ripe 

 fruit is edible, but the prickly skin -should be discarded. 



Ribes oxyacanthoides L. 



Northern gooseberry 

 Woods and moist places. Rare. Old Keene road. June. 



Ribes rotundifolium Mx. 



Round leaved gooseberry 



Woods and open places. Occasional. June. Resembling the pre- 

 ceding species but distinguished from it by the longer flowers, linear 

 sepals and exserted stamens. Both have the fruit smooth and edible. 



