Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . arrow, /^-X inch(6-12 mm.) long, somewhat angular, pubescent, nearly white, orpinkish at the base; lobes short, ovate, reflexed; petals minute,orbicular; stamens concealed within the calyx-tube; style slightlyexceeding it, 2-parted at the tip; berry of medium size, brightred, somewhat glandular, sweet, but not agreeable. From New Mexico northward through the Eocky and SierraNevada Mountains to British Columbia. The flowers are commonly almost sessile, but a for
Bush-fruits; a horticultural monograph of raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, currants, gooseberries, and other shrub-like fruits . arrow, /^-X inch(6-12 mm.) long, somewhat angular, pubescent, nearly white, orpinkish at the base; lobes short, ovate, reflexed; petals minute,orbicular; stamens concealed within the calyx-tube; style slightlyexceeding it, 2-parted at the tip; berry of medium size, brightred, somewhat glandular, sweet, but not agreeable. From New Mexico northward through the Eocky and SierraNevada Mountains to British Columbia. The flowers are commonly almost sessile, but a form fromMontana has slender pedicels, longer than the bracts (var. pedi-cellare, Gray). BOTANY OF THE CUBBANTS 475 41. R. VISCOSISSIMUM, Pursh. (Fig. 103.) Large, branching bush, 2-6 feet (6-18 decimeters) high, stemand older branches smooth, dark red, young shoots pubescent andviscid-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 pubescentabove and below, emitting a peculiar scent, likened to old apples,. Fig. 102. Ribes cereum (XI). when touched; petioles long; racemes erect, covered with viscidglandular pubescence, which extends to the calyx tube; bractslinear-oblaneeolate, 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
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