spatulate, very small; fruit (and ovaries) clothed with glandular bristles,
red, globose.—L'Her. stirp. 1. p. 3, t. 2 ; Pursh! fl. 1. p. 163 ; Torr.l fl.
1. p. 268 ; DC.! prodr. 3. p. 482; Hook.! 1. c. (excl. 0.) R. glandulosum,
Ait. Kew. (ed. 1) 1. p. 279 ; Richards.! L c. ed. 1. R. rigens, Michx. !
ft. p. 110 ; B ig d .fi. Bost. ed. 2. p. SO. R. laxiflorum, Richards.! 1. c. ed.
2. (excl. syn.) R. trifidum, Michx. ! 1. c.
Hills and rocky places, Newfoundland! and throughout Canada (from
lat. 57°) to Pennsylvania! west to Lake Superior! and the Rocky Mountains,
ex Hook. May.—Stems procumbent, rooting; branches erect: the
plant exhaling a faint disagreeable odor, resembling that of Symplocarpus
fbetida (Skunk Cabbage). Calyx greenish with purplish veins : the petals
and anthers often purple. Berries rather large, unpleasant to the taste.
20. R. laxiflorum (Pursh): leaves deeply cordate, glabrous, 5-7-lobed;
the lobes ovate, acute, incised or doubly serrate; racemes erect, pubescent;
bracts linear-spatulate, much shorter than the slender glandular pedicels;
calyx rotate, the segments orbicular; petals broadly flabelliform; style
2-parted; fruit clothed with glandular bristles, red, globose.—Pursh, fl. 2.
p. 731 ; DC. 1. c. R. affine, Dougl. ! mss. ; Bongard ! veg. Sitcha, l. c. p.
138. R. prostratum 0. Hook. ! 1. c.
N. W. Coast, Menzies, Douglas, &c. Norfolk Sound, Eschscholtz !
Sitcha, Bongard !—This plant so closely resembles R. prostratum that we
greatly incline to consider it, with Hooker, as a variety of that species. But
the petals are very different in shape; the flowers decidedly larger (although
by no means of the size of those of R. floridum, as Pursh states,) and
apparently of a purple color.
21. R. rubrum (Linn.) : leaves subcordate, obtusely 3-5-Iobed, pubescent
beneath or at length nearly glabrous, serrate, the teeth mucronate; racemes
pendulous, produced from lateral buds distinct from the leaves; calyx rotate,
the segments roundish; petals truncate or slightly obcordate ; style very
short, 2-cleft; fruit glabrous, red, globose.—Linn. spec. 1. p. 200 ; Engl,
hot. t. 1289 ; Wahl. fl. Lapp. p. 65; Richards. ! appx. Frankl. journ. ed.
2. p. 6; Hook. ! fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 232. R. albinervium, Michx. ! fl. 1.
p . 110.
Throughout Canada to the mouth of Mackenzie River, Richardson!
Drummond. In damp woods and swamps, St. Johnsbnry, Vermont, Mr.
Carey ! Sault St. Marie, Dr. Pitcher! and at the sources of the St. Croix
River, Dr. Houghton. May-June.—Respecting this species, which appears
to be abundant in our northern latitudes, we wholly accord with Richardson
and Hooker, as our specimens agree in every respect with the European
R. rubrum.
22. R. resinosum (Pursh): plant clothed in every part with resinous
glandular hairs; leaves roundish, 3-5-lobed; racemes erect; bracts linear,
longer than the pedicels; calyx flattish; petals obtusely rhomboidal; fruit
hirsute. Pursh! fl. 1. p. 163.
“ On the mountains of North America. Fraser. April-May.” Pursh.—
The mountains of North Carolina are doubtless meant. We have seen a
fragment of this plant in Mr. Lambert’s herbarium (under the name of R.
Fraseri), and another in that of Sir Wm. Hooker, sent from the Southern
States by Mr. Parker.—The figure under this name in Bot. mag. t. 1583, is
said by Spach to belong to R. orientale.
23. R. hracteosum (Dougl.): leaves on long petioles, cordate, deeply
5_7-lobed, sprinkled with resinous dots beneath; the lobes acuminate, coarsely
doubly serrate or incised; racemes (sometimes terminal) very long, erect;
pedicels rather erect, a little exceeding the spatulate bracts; calyx rotate,
glabrous; fruit black, sprinkled with resinous dots.—Dougl.! 1. c .; Hook.!
fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 233; Bongard! veg. Sitcha, l. c. p. 137.
Oregon, Douglas ! Scouler! Nuttall! in shady woods. Sitcha, Bongard !—
A striking species, 5-8 feet high; the full-grown leaves frequently 6 inches
in diameter, on petioles about the same length. Racemes often 6-10 inches
' long, deflexed in fruit.
24. R. cereum (Dougl.): leaves (small) roundish, mostly cordate, 3-5-lobed,
incisely crenate, viscid-puberulent or nearly glabrous, clothed with white
waxy dots on one or both sides; racemes nodding, somewhat capitate,
3-5-flowered; pedicels scarcely any; bracts ovate, appressed to the ovary;
calyx tubular, glandular; the segments very short, recurved; petals minute,
orbicular; style.undivided; stigmas 2, capitate; fruit a little glandular, globose.—
Dougl.! in hort. trans. 7. p. 312; Lindl.! hot. reg. t. 1263 ; Hook.!
fl. Bor.-Am. It p. 234, 8f hot. mag. t. 3008. R. inebrians, Lindl. hot. reg.
t. 1471. R. pumilum, Nutt.! mss.
0. flowers smaller; leaves reniform-cordate, scarcely lobed.—R. renifbrme,
Nutt.! in jour. acad. Philad. 7. p. 26.
Banks of the Oregon and its tributary streams, from the Great Falls to the
Rocky Mountains, Douglas ! 0. Rocky Mountains, Mr. Wyeth ! Nuttall!—
Alow shrub, with small viscid leaves, and rather large greenish-white flowers.
Bracts sometimes crenate or incised.—In the character of Nuttall’s R. reni-
forme the -bracts are said, doubtless by an error of the pen, to be much shorter,
instead of longer than the pedicels.
25. R. viseosissimum (Pursh): viscid-pubescent; leaves cordate, roundish,
obtusely 3—5-lobed; the lobes short, rounded, doubly crenate, somewhat incised
; racemes ereet, somewhat corymbose; bracts spatulate, rather shorter
than the glandular pedicels; calyx campanulate, the segments shorter than
' the tube; style 2-cleft at the apex; fruit ovoid, black, viscid-pubescent.—
Pursh, fl. 1. p. 163; DC. 1. c .; Dougl.! in hort. trans. 7. p. 511; Hook.!
fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 234, t. 76. Coreosma viscosissima, Spach, l. c.
Rocky Mountains near the sources of the Oregon, Lewis, Douglas ! Nuttall
! Also on hills near the Spokan River and Kettle Falls, at an elevation
of 8000 feet, Douglas. June.—Flowers large, greenish-yellow. Berries
unpleasant to the taste.
* * Flowers red: fruit destitute of pulp.
26. R. glutinosum (Benth.): leaves cordate, about 3-lobed, serrate, nearly
glabrous, somewhat viscous, veiny; racemes 30-40-flowered, pubescent and
viscous, much longer than the leaves; pedicels longer than the flowers; calyx
tubular-eampanulate; the segments oblong, obtuse, spreading, longer than
the obovate (red) petals; style 2-cleft at the apex; fruit ovoid, glandular-
hirsute and viscid.—Benth.! in hort. trans. (n. ser.) 1. p. 476 ; Hook. Sc Am. !
hot. Beechey, suppl. p. 345.
California, Douglas!—Flowers as large as in R. sanguineum; the racemes
much longer than in that species. Petioles dilated and membranous
at the base, pectinately ciliate, glandular.
27. R. sanguineum (Pursh): young branches and petioles glandularly
puberulent; leaves cordate, 3-5-lobed, doubly serrate, glabrous above, veiny
and tomentose-canescent beneath; racemes puberulent and glandular, loose,
about twice the length of the leaves; pedicels about the length of the flower,
rather shorter than the obovate-spatulate (red) bracts; calyx tubular-cam-
panulate; the segments obovate, spreading, as long as the tube, and a little
exceeding the spatulate petals; style minutely 2-cleft at the apex; fruit sub-
globose, sparsely glandular-hirsute.—Pursh! fl. 1. p. 164; Smith, l. c.;