Tas, 6892, 
RIBES oxyacantTHorpes. 
Native of North America. 
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Nat. Ord. SaxrrraGacExZ.—Tribe RipesiEex. 
Genus Rigs, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 654.) 
Rrzxs (Grossularia) oryacanthoides ; glabrum v. parce setosum, spinis solitariis 
v. 2-3-nis, foliis orbiculatis v. basi truncatis cuneatisve 3-lobis obtuse inciso- 
crenatis lobulatisve, pedunculis brevibus 2-3-floris, floribus glabris, calycis 
tubo supra ovariam campanulato lobis oblongis obtusis brunneis breviore, 
petalis minutis flavis, bacca globosa glabra purpurea. 
R. oxyacanthoides, Linn. Sp. Pl. 201; DC. Prodr, vol. iii. p. 478; Ait. Hort. 
Kew, Ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 43; Nouv. Duhamel, vol. iii. p. 232; Torrey & Gray 
Fl. Bor. Am. vol. i. p. 546, excl. var.; Torrey, Fl. U.S. p. 270; A. Gray, 
Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 206; Berland. in Mem. Soc. Genev. p. 58, t. 1, fig. 2 ; 
Loud. Arb, Brit. vol. ii. p. 968, fig. 715 ; 8. Watson, Bibl. Index, parti. p. 335, 
R. hirtellum, Michz. Fl. Bor. Am. vol. i. p. 111; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. vol. ii, 
p. 231; Torr. & Gr. Fl. Bor, Am.vol.i. p. 546; A. Gray, Man. Bot, N.U.S. 
Ed. 5, p. 164; Loud. Arb. Brit. vol. ii. p. 971, 
R. saxosum, Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. vol. i. p. 231. 
An American Gooseberry of very wide distribution, and 
one well worth cultivating on account of its fruit. It 
extends from Canada and the Northern United States to 
Hudson’s Bay and British North America, and runs down 
the Rocky Mountains to New Mexico, occurring also in the 
Sierra Nevada of California, where it is found at elevations 
of 6000 to 9000 feet, as far south as Mariposa county. 
There has been so much confusion between this and &. 
Cynosbati, Linn., lacustre, Poir, and setosum, Lindl., that 
Gray only accepts it as probably the oayacanthoides of 
Linneus. In a paper on “Our Wild Gooseberries”’ by 
Gray, published in the ‘“ American Naturalist” (vol. x. 
p- 270, May 1876), that author says of the name oryacan- 
thoides, that “it must be brought. into use in place of 
R. hirtellum, Michx. (which is generally inappropriate), for 
no reasonable doubt remains that it is the Hudson’s Bay 
Gooseberry figured by Dillenius (Hortus Elthamensis, 
p- 166, t. 139, f. 166) upon which Linnzus founded the 
AavGusT lst, 1886. 
