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40406 to 40496— Continued. 



40419. Kibes eokzli Regel. Gooseberry. 



"7535." This species is described by Bean as Ribes amictum. 



"A deciduous armed shrub, 3 to 6 feet high; young shoots downy. 

 Leaves one-half to 1 inch wide, roundish or kidney shaped in general 

 outline, 3 or 5 lobed, the lobes often with sharp teeth ; more or less 

 downy on both faces, especially beneath; stalk one-third inch long, 

 usually downy and sometimes glandular-hairy. Flowers solitary or in 

 pairs, on a short downy, often glandular stalk, pendent. Calyx purplish 

 crimson, downy; the tube cylindrical, one-fourth inch long; the sepals 

 one-third inch long; petals rosy white, erect, shorter than the sepals. 

 Berry purple, one-half inch wide, covered with slender prickles. Native 

 of California. This pretty and curious gooseberry is not common in cul- 

 tivation, the plant that has been distributed for it from nurseries being 

 as a rule either R. lobbii or R. menziesii. Its nearest ally is R. omentum. 

 The specific name {amictum) refers to the shape of the bract surrounding 

 the base of each flower, which resembles the amict, or hood, worn by 

 Roman Catholic clergy at mass." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy 

 in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. 398.) 



40420. X Ribes akcuatum Jancz. . Gooseberry. 

 " 7503." 



" Gracile X rotundifolium. Shrub 1^ meters high with long, slender 

 more or less arched branches, bristly, spines none, the nodal spines 

 weak, up to 5 mm. long, wanting here and there. Leaves rather small, 

 rounded, oblong, 3 to 5 lobed, up to 5 cm. in width, truncate or rounded at 

 the base, subglabrous, resembling those of R. rotundifolium. Flowers 

 pale, or a little washed with purple, glabrous, rather small. Fruit round, 

 the size of a large currant, dark purple, with a light bloom, taste of that 

 of R. grossularia. Ripens in the middle of July. Its habit, leaves, 

 spines, as well as the shape of the flower, above all the petals, resemble 

 very much R. rotundifolium, but it is even more vigorous and hardy, its 

 racemes and stamens are even more short, the pollen compound, the 

 fruit deep purple and not green. After repeated comparisons, we believe 

 that it is a hybrid, gracile X rotundifolium and not divaricatum X 

 gracile as we had previously thought." (E. Janczewski, Monographie des 

 Oroseilliers, p. '/'J7.) 



40421 and 40422. Ribes aueeum Pursh. Currant. 



40421. "7305. Var. chrysococcum Rydb." 



The species is described as follows: "A deciduous, lax-habited, 

 spineless shrub, 6 to 8 feet high, producing a crowded mass of stems 

 which branch and arch outward at the top; young shoots minutely 

 downy. Leaves usually 3 lobed, often broadly wedge shaped or 

 palmate, the lobes coarsely toothed; three-fourths to 2 inches long, 

 as much or more wide, pale green on both sides, and smooth, or soon 

 becoming so; stalks smooth or downy, one-half to 12 inches long, verj 

 variable in length compared with the blade. Flowers spicily fra- 

 grant, bright golden yellow, appearing in April in semipendulous 

 racemes 1 to 2 inches long, each flower with a tubular calyx one-half 

 inch long; the spreading lobes one-fourth to three-eighths inch long; 

 bract at the base of the flower stalk longer than the latter. Fruit 



