GROSSULARIACEAE 603 
Free part of the hypanthium yo red 5-6 mm. long: 
petals flabellate-cuneate, 1.5- lon 2. G. rotundifolia. 
Free part of the hypanthium and ux "9-10 mm. long: 
petals cuneate-spatulate, 2-2.0 mm. lon 3. G. missouriensis. 
II. 
A diffuse shrub with glabrous or nearly glabrous twigs: free 
part of the hypanthium shorter than the sepals: stamens 
long-exserted. 4. G. Echinella. 
III. CyYNOSBATI 
A rigid shrub with closely pubescent twigs: free part of 
hypanthium longer than the sepals: stamens not long- 
A 
. Cynosbati. 
1. G. curvata (Small) Coville & E Diffusely branched shrub, 5-8 dm. 
tall, armed with slender red spines, the branches purplish, shining, recurved 
r : 3. 
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iameter. à 
— (GRANITE-GOOSEBERRY.) — Rocky woods 
and slopes, Piedmont, Ala. and Ga. 
2. G. rotundifolia rage i rs & Brit- 
ton. Stra aggling shru b, with slender 
eddish spines, the Branches nn or 
brownish: leaf-blades n diameter, 
glabrate or finely aa ta ps on Je 
the veins beneath, 3—-5-lobed, the lobes toothed: hypanthium glabro sepals 
linear or linear-spatulate, 4-5 mm. long, obtuse: petals flabellate- eae 1.5-2 
m. | ne, undulate, at length erisped: pog ue s: anthers less than 
lm den Do globular, 8—10 pao r, reddish-purple. [Ribes 
RU Michx].— (Mount is con D “Boc ky woods, Viri 
and Blue Ridge, rarely extending into Coastal "Plain, N. C. to N. Y. and Mas 
3. G. missouriensis (Nutt.) Coville & Britton. Spreading shrub, armed with 
dipsa gus spines, the branches gray or buff: leaf-blades 2—6 em. in diameter, 
re or eda. espec iini when young, prominently 3—5-lobed; hy- 
M potis sepals na E elliptie or c ree spatulate or narrower, 
7-8 mm. long: petals ‘cuneate ph atulate, 2-2.5 oe g: filaments glabrous: 
anthers over 1 mm. long: berry globular, 9-15 m i diameter, purple or 
r R. gracile Pursh not Miehx.|— (Missount- GOOSEBERRY.) — Thickets 
and river- ped Interior Low Plateaus and Central Lowlands, Tenn. to Kans., 
Mas 
4. G. Rd Coville. us shrub with p gray branehes armed with 
stoutish purple-brown spines: leaf-blades 1-2.5 em. in diameter, 3-lobed, with 
the lobes ineised and to othed, Sue ingly Du slender- -petioled: lower part 
of ar P dn elosely covered with gland-tipped hairs; free A a 
abou ong, 
late, 3—5.4 cm. long, pubese Ear arly so, 
uas eles erect, n. long, convolutely- -folded and aa tabular 
with the truncate top rolled e ds ents glabrous; anthers less 
mm. long: style gla ab uus: berry globul ie ren green, echinate, br em 
in diameter, elosely beset with gland- tipped spin cp pis dg 
Rich woods, along Lake Miccosukee, Fla.—The leaves unfold in the fall. 
b. G. bati L. Straggling shrub, with spine-armed and often prickly 
stems, 7 e closely pubescent: leaf- "blades 3-5 em, in diameter, pubescent 
