Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . ised serrate, acute,slightly hairy on the upper surface, the petioles commonly bear-ing short, scattered, glandular-tipped hairs; flowers small, yel-lowish green, dioecious, staminate clusters long, 20-30 flowered,pistillate clusters shorter, 5-10-flowered; pedicels short; bracts 4 TASTELESS MOUNTAIN CUBE A NT 471 longer than the pedicel and flower, like the peduncle, bearingshort, glandular-tipped hairs; calyx flat, lobes ovate; petals veryminute; fruit smooth
Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . ised serrate, acute,slightly hairy on the upper surface, the petioles commonly bear-ing short, scattered, glandular-tipped hairs; flowers small, yel-lowish green, dioecious, staminate clusters long, 20-30 flowered,pistillate clusters shorter, 5-10-flowered; pedicels short; bracts 4 TASTELESS MOUNTAIN CUBE A NT 471 longer than the pedicel and flower, like the peduncle, bearingshort, glandular-tipped hairs; calyx flat, lobes ovate; petals veryminute; fruit smooth, scarlet, insipid orsweetish. Original distribution.—Mountains ofEurope and the Orient, in Siberia, Turk-estan, Manchuria and Japan. Said to be in limited cultivation forfruit in parts of Europe, improved forms,with both red and blackfruits, being known. Ithas been grown at theArnold Arboretum, and isreported* to possess someornamental value. 35. E. VIBURNIFOLIUM, Gray. (Fig. 99.)A straggling bush,altogether unlike othermembers of the genus;bark grayish, crackingaway in rings; twigs,peduncles, petioles andunder surface of the. Fig. 99. Ribes vihurnijolium(X%). leaves beset with brightyellowish, resinous dots;leaves broadly ovate orroundish, obtuse, scarcelyor not at all 3-lobed, sparsely crenate or dentate, the teethmucronate, thick, with a peculiar pebbled, leathery appear- Fig. CS. Rlbcs alpinum (XI). *Garden and Forest, 6 : 245. 472 BUSH-FBUITS ance; petioles pubescent; racemes upright, corymbose; pedi-cels long filiform, the lower ones compound; flowers small; calyx-tube flat; lobes ovate or oblong, rose colored, several times aslong as the tube; petals minute; stamens and 2-cleft style veryshort; berry apparently smooth or leathery. Northern part of Lower California and islands of southwesternCalifornia. 36. R. LAXIFLORUM, Pursh. R. Hoivellii, Greene. R. acerifolium,? Howell. Stems ascending, 3-8 feet (9-24 decimeters) long, unarmed;leaves 2-3 inches ( cm.) in diam
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