XXIV. THE SWAMP GOOSEBERRY. 421 



Found in rocky places from Hudson's Bay to Massachusetts, 

 and west to Lake Superior. — Fl. 



Sp. 3. The Round-leaved Gooseberry. R. rotundifoUiim. L. 



Stem not prickly ; sub-axillary spines short, usually solitary ; leaves round- 

 ish, 5-lobed, nearly glabrous, shining above; the lobes short and obtuse, in- 

 cisely toothed ; fruit-stalks slender, 1 — 2-flowered, glabrous ; calyx cylindrical 

 and narrow, glabrous, as well as the ovary ; the segments linear-oblong, a little 

 spreading, twice the length of the tube ; filaments projecting, glabrous, twice 

 or thrice the length of the broadly spatulate, unguiculate petals ; anthers round- 

 ish ; style deeply 2-parted, as long as the stamens, hairy below ; fruit small, 

 smooth. — Flora, N. A., I, 547, 



Flowers in June. A shrub 3 or 4 feet high, with spreading, recurved 

 branches ; the spines occasionally absent. Leaves small, truncate or slightly 

 cordate or often a little cuneiform at the base ; the lower surface, as well as 

 the short petioles, often somewhat pubescent. Fruit about the size of ihe black 

 currant, at length purple, delicious. — Flora, N. A. 



No native gooseberry promises so much as this. The intro- 

 duced species often refuses to flourish in our gardens, even with 

 careful cultivation. It is not perfectly adapted to our soil and 

 climate. But this native one is, and if the art of cultivation 

 can make as great a difference in it as has been made in the 

 wild European gooseberry, the fruit will be the finest of the 

 kind in the world. The cultivated species, on its cold, northern, 

 native mountains, is small, hard, hairy and acerb. Cultivation 

 points at its large, beautiful, firm, sweet, delicious fruit, as the 

 triumph of art. This change has been produced by long and 

 careful culture. What may not be made, by similar efforts, of 

 a fruit perfectly suited to our climate, which, in its natural state, 

 is pronounced delicious ! 



Found in mountainous and rocky places from Massachusetts 

 to the mountains of North Carolina, and west to beyond the 

 Rocky Mountains. 



Sp. 4. The Swamp Gooseberry. R. lacustre. Poiret. 



Young stems very prickly ; sub-axillary spines several, weak ; leaves cordate, 

 3 — 5-parted ; the lobes deeply incised ; racemes 5 — 9-flowered, loose ; calyx 

 rotate; stamens about the length of the petals; style short, glabrous, 2-cleft; 

 ovary glandular, hairy ; fruit small, hispid. — Flora, N. A. 



In mountain swamps. Flowers in June. Stems 3 or 4 feet high. Petioles 



