. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus i. GOOSEBERRY FAMILY. 239 8. Ribes odoratum Wendl. Golden, Buffalo or Missouri Currant. Fig. 2204. R. odoratum Wendl. in Bartl. & Wendl. Beitr. 2: 15. 1825. Unarmed. Petioles rather slender, pubescent; leaves convolute in the bud, at length glabrous, often broader than long, thick, 3-lobed or sometimes 5-lobed, broadly cuneate or truncate at the base,
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus i. GOOSEBERRY FAMILY. 239 8. Ribes odoratum Wendl. Golden, Buffalo or Missouri Currant. Fig. 2204. R. odoratum Wendl. in Bartl. & Wendl. Beitr. 2: 15. 1825. Unarmed. Petioles rather slender, pubescent; leaves convolute in the bud, at length glabrous, often broader than long, thick, 3-lobed or sometimes 5-lobed, broadly cuneate or truncate at the base, the lobes obtuse, few-toothed or entire; racemes leafy- bracted, few-flowered, the rachis and pedicels vil- lous ; flowers bright yellow, spicy-scented, 6"-i2" long; calyx-tube cylindric, glabrous, 2-3 times as long as the oval spreading lobes; petals i"-i*" long; stamens slightly exserted; fruit black, glabrous, 3"-5" in diameter. Along streams, Minnesota and South Dakota to Mis- souri and Texas. Common in cuhivation. Clove- or flowering-current. 2. GROSSULARIA [Tourn.] Mill. Card. Diet Abr. Ed. 4. 1754. Shrubs, with erect ascending or trailing branches, the nodes armed with simple or 3-forked spines, rarely spineless. Racemes i-few-flowered. Pedicels not jointed. Hypan- thium evident. Fruit not disarticulating from the pedicel. [Ancient name of the gooseberry.] About 55 species, natives of the north temperate zone. Besides the following, some 30 others occur in the western states. Type species : Ribes Grossularia L. Ovary bristly ; fruit prickly. Ovary glabrous, pubescent, or with stalked glands. Flowers white ; filaments long. Flowers green or purplish ; filaments shorter. Stamens equalling the petals. Calyx-tube (hypanthium) tubular. Calyx-tube (hypanthium) campanulate. Stamens twice as long as the petals or longer. Ovary villous. Ovary glabrous or with some stalked glands. Calyx-lobes twice as long as the tube. Calyx-lobes about a
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