. Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits. Berries. BOTAXr OF THE CURRANTS 475 41. R. VISCOSISSIMUM, Pursh. (Fig. 103.) Large, branching bush, 2-6 feet (6-18 decimeters) high, stem and older branches smooth, dark red, young shoots pubescent and viscid-glandular; leaves round-cordate, 1-3 inches ( cm.) wide, distinctly 3-5-lobed, lobes roundish, doubly crenate, some- what incised, more or less rugose and veiny, glandular pubescent above and below, emitting a peculiar scent, likened to old apples,.
. Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits. Berries. BOTAXr OF THE CURRANTS 475 41. R. VISCOSISSIMUM, Pursh. (Fig. 103.) Large, branching bush, 2-6 feet (6-18 decimeters) high, stem and older branches smooth, dark red, young shoots pubescent and viscid-glandular; leaves round-cordate, 1-3 inches ( cm.) wide, distinctly 3-5-lobed, lobes roundish, doubly crenate, some- what incised, more or less rugose and veiny, glandular pubescent above and below, emitting a peculiar scent, likened to old apples,. Fig. 102. Ribes cereum (XI). when touched; petioles long; racemes erect, covered with viscid glandular pubescence, which extends to the calyx tube; bracts linear-oblaneeolate, entire or slightly incised at tip, as long as the pedicels; pedicels commonly %-X i^cdi (6-12 mm.) long; flowers large, fragrant; calyx yellowish or whitish green, tube broad, campanulate or ventricose, lobes oblong, nearly as long as the tube, spreading but not reflexed; petals ovate, white, shorter than the calyx lobes; stamens and pistil hidden within the flower; fruit ovoid, black, rough, glandular-hairy or rarely smooth, flavor unpleasant. High altitudes of the Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountains in the northern portion of the United States and southern British America. Douglas says"^ that the berries are so musky or mawkish that two or three will produce vomiting, though it has since been pro- nounced edible. * Trans. Lou. Hort. Soc. 7 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Card, Fred Wallace, 1863-. New York, Macmillan; London, Macmillan
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