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JIIBES^ divaricatum'. 



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Straggling Gooseberry. 



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A^a/. o?'cf. GRossuLACEiE Dec. {Lindlet/s introduction to the natural 

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RIBES.—Suprd, vol. 2. foL 125. -• 



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^* divaricatum ; ramis divaricatis setosis, aculeis 1-3 axillaribus deflexis, 

 foliis subrotundis trilobis inciso-dentatis nervosis glabris, pedunculis 

 trifloris nutantibus, calyce campanulato : laciniis linearibus reflexis tube 

 dupI6 longioribus, stylo staminibusque exsertis, baccis glabris.^DoM^f/as 

 in hort. trans, vol 7. p. 515. Bot. reg. 1349, in textu. 





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A robust bush, of erect KaCit, six or eight feet high, 

 with divaricated branches, the younger ones sparingly and 

 unequally clothed with mfnilte, bristle-shaped prickles, 

 and having one or three, large, strong, deflexed prickles 

 under each bud. The leaves are rounded, 3-lobed, coarsely 

 cut, toothed, smooth, and veiny, about an inch long ; the 

 footstalks somewhat shorter, with a few scattered hairs 

 near their base. The clusters droop below the branches, 

 are 3- or 5-flowered, shorter than the leaves, slender and 

 smooth, with rounded, subamplexicaul bracteae. The cali/T 

 IS bell-shaped, yellowish-green, with linear, brownish red, 

 effected segments, which are double the length of the 



tube., Pe/6t/* wedge-shaped, white, half the length of the 



imb. The stmens are exserted beyond the calyx, half 

 inch long. Style considerably longer than the stamens, 

 semi-bifid, spreading, villous. Berry spherical, smooth, 

 one-third of an inch in diameter, black, pleasant to the 

 taste." 



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