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RIBES Menziesii. 
Menzies’ Gooseberry. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. GrossuLARIACEZ. (CURRANTWORTS, Vegetable Kingdom, 
p. 750.) 
RIBES, Linn.— Calyx tubo cum ovario connato, limbo supero, colorato, 
pelviformi campanulato v. tubuloso, quinquefido v. rarissime quadrifido, 
xquali. Corolle petala 5 v. 4 calycis fauci inserta, parva, squameeformia. 
Stamina cum petalis inserta, iisdem numero zequalia et alterna, inclusa. 
Ovarium inferum, uniloculare, placentis duabus parietalibus nerviformibus, 
oppositis. Ovula plurima, pluriseriata, infuniculis brevibus adnato-reclinata. 
Styli 2, distincti v. plus minus connati ; stigmata simplicia. Bacca calyce 
emarcido coronata, unilocularis, polysperma v. abortu oligosperma. Semina 
angulata, testa gelatinosa, in rhaphe maturitate libera reclinata, integumento 
interiori crustaceo, albumini adnato. Embryo in basi albuminis subcornei 
orthotropus, minimus, radicula centrifuga. Frutices inermes v. spinosi ; 
foliis sparsis, digitato-lobatis v. incisis, petiolo basi dilatato, semiamplexicauli, 
pedunculis axillaribus v. e gemmis erumpentibus uni-trifloris v. racemoso-multi-. 
Joris, pedicellis basi unibracteatis, medio v. apice bibracteolatis; floribus vires- 
centibus, albidis, flavis v. rubris, rarissime abortu dioicis.—Endl. gen. 4682. 
$ True Gooseberries. 
R. Menziesii ; ramis hispidis, spinis subaxillaribus ternis rectis, foliis cordatis 
5-lobis inciso-serratis obtusis rugosis supra subglabris subtus tomen- 
tosis, pedunculis nutantibus 1-3-floris, calycis tubo campanulato laciniis 
linearibus obtusis reflexis, petalis linearibus erectis filamentis brevioribus, 
fructu echinato. 
R. Menziesii, Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. 2. 732.— DeCand. Prodr. 3. 478. Hooker 
ji. bor. Amer. 1. 229. Id. Bot. Beechey, 141, and 345. Gray $: Torrey 
Fl.of N. Amer. 1. 545. 
R. Menziesianum, Romer $ Schultz Syst. 5. 507. 
R. ferox, Smith in Rees’ Cycl. no. 26. DeCand. l. c. 
This little known plant is a hardy shrub, inhabiting various 
parts of California. Mr. Menzies originally gathered it near 
Port Trinidad; Lay and Douglas have found it in other parts 
of the same country: we have not, however, seen it without 
prickles, as Messrs. Gray.and Torrey describe it ; nor do we 
understand how it can be compared to R. stamineum in point 
of beauty, for its flowers are small and insignificant. 
