[Sidenote: =Golden, Missouri or Buffalo Currant=
_Rìbes àureum_
=Yellow
Spring, summer
West, etc.=]
A very handsome bush, from five to twelve feet high, with pretty
foliage and smooth, pinkish-gray, woody stems. The bright green leaves,
with three or five lobes, are thin in texture, with a few hairs on
the leaf-stalks, fresh and glossy-looking, and setting off the bright
clusters of clear yellow flowers, of which the calyx, half an inch
across, with a long greenish-yellow tube, is the conspicuous part. The
small petals are sometimes yellow, but often bright red and the fruit
is smooth, yellow, red, or black, and edible. This is deliciously
fragrant and spicy, very handsome and attractive, growing beside brooks
and in moist canyons, where sometimes, in masses, it has at a distance
the effect of Forsythia, but purer in color. It grows as far east as
Missouri and is often cultivated.