Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . entire or slightly incised at tip, as long as thepedicels; pedicels commonly %-X incli (6-12 mm.) long; flowerslarge, fragrant; calyx yellowish or whitish green, tube broad,campanulate or ventricose, lobes oblong, nearly as long as thetube, spreading but not reflexed; petals ovate, white, shorter thanthe calyx lobes; stamens and pistil hidden within the flower; fruitovoid, black, rough, glandular-hairy or rarely smooth, flavorunpleasant. High altitudes of the R
Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . entire or slightly incised at tip, as long as thepedicels; pedicels commonly %-X incli (6-12 mm.) long; flowerslarge, fragrant; calyx yellowish or whitish green, tube broad,campanulate or ventricose, lobes oblong, nearly as long as thetube, spreading but not reflexed; petals ovate, white, shorter thanthe calyx lobes; stamens and pistil hidden within the flower; fruitovoid, black, rough, glandular-hairy or rarely smooth, flavorunpleasant. High altitudes of the Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountains inthe northern portion of the United States and southern BritishAmerica. Douglas says* that the berries are so musky or mawkish thattwo or three will produce vomiting, though it has since been pro-nounced edible. * Trans. Lon. Hort. Soc. 7:511. 476 Busn-FBuiTS 42. R. SANGUINEUM, Pursh. Red-flowered Currant. (Fig. ]04.) An erect, branching shrub, 2-12 feet (1-4 meters) high- withred, smooth branches; young twigs and petioles pubescent orglandular-hairy; leaves round-cordate, 2-4 inches (5-10 em.). Fig. 103. Ribes viscossissimum (X%). broad, 3-5-lobed, doubly serrate, minutely pubescent above, downyor smooth beneath, petioles long, dilated and ciliate at base;racemes long, pendulous; bracts obovate, red or whitish, mem-branous, usually as long as the pedicel; calyx tube campanulateor short cylindrical, lobes obovate, broad, about as long as thetube, purple-red or rose-colored; ? petals spatulate, commonlywhite, somewhat shorter than the calyx lobes, equaling the THU BED-FL O WE RED C UERA NT 477 stamens; style 2-cleft at apex, glabrous, slightly exceeding thestamens; ovary beset with short, glandular-lipped hairs, whichextend upward to the calyx and downward to the peduncles; fruitbluish black, generally rough, glandular-hairy, tough, dry andbitterish. A variable species. Var. VARiEGATUM, Watson. Described as low, nearly glabrous; racemes short an
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