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[20> Re inerme tydb. ‘Vhite Stemmed Gooseberry. A more or less diffuse 
shrub 1-2 m. tall, the branches drooping, rooting readily wherever in con- 
tact with moist soil, often trailing over vegetation and windfall, sometimes 
“ for many feet, or Climbing into the lower parts of small trees or tree like 
+ . shrubs; bark chestnut brown, rather shining, marked by transverse lenticels, 
often shredding, young bark dull grey, the new growth becoming pale straws 
color, rarely brown, glabrous, spines few or none, the canes sometimes 
bristly; buds 5 ma. long, straw colored or tan, lanceolate, laterally 
flattened and appressed asainst the stems, very acute, the scales puberulent, : 
the margins ciliolate, not glandular, the terminal bud scarcely larger, leafe « 
blades 2-6 cme in diameter, mostly rotund in outline, 5-lobed, the lowermost 
obscure, the upper cut to the middle or more, obovate, cuneate, incised and 
toothed above the middle, the teeth ovate, apiculate, generally cordate at . 
the base, the sinus broad, the lobes rounded, both surfaces glabrous with: 
i hirtellous veins and margins, or thinly hirsute on both surfaces, especially 
the lower, petioles mostly shorter than the blades, crispulous on the upper 
surface, bearing a few plumose, non-glandular hairs on the margins of the 
expanded base; racemes droopins, borne on lateral fruiting spurs, 2-4 
flowered, glabrous, the bracts 1-2 mm. long, rotund-ovate, the margins cil- 
iolate, pedicels <-10 mm. long; calyx tubular, glabrous, greenish-white or 
purplish, the tube <.5 mm. lon, constricted at the base, the lobes erect, 
5S mme long, 1 mm wide, obtuse, oblong; petals fan-shaped, 1.2 mn. long; 
stamens equal to the sepals, hairy at the base; styles united slishtly more 
than half their length, pilose at the middle, equalling the sepals; berry 
smooth, purplish black, not glandular, 6-12 mm. in diameter, bearing a very 
light bloom; seeds ovoid, 2.5 mui. long. 
Frequent throughout our region, abundant locally, occurring under 
Willows and alders in broad alluvial stream bottoms or swampy meadows, below 
4000 feet. 
