Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . eaves somewhat heart-shaped, pubescent when young, beconjingglabrous, moderately 3-5-lobed, the lobes roundish, serrate, theteeth mucronate; petioles broadened at the base, pubescent,commonly with scattered, short, glandular-tipped hairs; racemesdrooping, produced from lateral buds distinct from the leaf-buds;flowers small, yellowish green or purplish; calyx-tube broad,saucer-shaped; lobes roundish; petals minute; stamens andstyle very short, the latter 2-cleft
Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . eaves somewhat heart-shaped, pubescent when young, beconjingglabrous, moderately 3-5-lobed, the lobes roundish, serrate, theteeth mucronate; petioles broadened at the base, pubescent,commonly with scattered, short, glandular-tipped hairs; racemesdrooping, produced from lateral buds distinct from the leaf-buds;flowers small, yellowish green or purplish; calyx-tube broad,saucer-shaped; lobes roundish; petals minute; stamens andstyle very short, the latter 2-cleft; fruit round, shining, thin-skinned, bright red, yellowish white, or even striped. Original distribution.—New England, west to Minnesota and farnorthward; also in northern and middle Europe, the Orient andCaucasus, Siberia, Manchuria and northern Japan to Kamschatka. Slight geographical variations occur, and all native NorthAmerican forms have been referred to a separate variety (, Maxim.), but apparently without sufficient rea-son. In cultivation, numerous variations occur, both in character 470 BUSH-FFUITS. Fig. 97. Rlbrcs rubrum {X%) of fruit and foliage. The species is the parent of all our red andwhite currants, and appears to thrive equally well in either hemi-sphere . 34. K. ALPiNUM, Linn. Tasteless Mountain Currant. B, saxatile,hort., not Pall. (Fig. 98.)Low shrub, 2-3 feet (6-9 decimeters) high; branches upright,whitish; leaves 3-5-lobed, the lobes coarsely incised 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. O
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