1359 



RIBES^ divaricatum. 

 Straggling Gooseber?y. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. GrossulacEjE Dec. {Lindley^s introduction to the natural 

 system, p. 54.) 



RIBES.—Suim), vol. 2. fol. 125. 



** Arm AT A. Gooseberries. 

 R. divaricatum ; ramis divaricatis setosis, aculeis 1-3 axillaribus deflexis, 

 foliis subrotundis trilobis inciso-dentatis nervosis glabris, pedunculis 

 trifloris nutantibus, calyce campamUato : laciniis linearibus reflexis tubo 

 duplo longioribus, stylo staminibusque exsertis, baccis glabris. — Douglas 

 in hort. trans, vol. 1 . p. 515. Bot. reg. 1349, in textu. 



" A robust bush, of erect habit, six or eight feet high, 

 with divaricated branches, the younger ones sparingly and 

 unequally clothed with minute, bristle-shaped prickles, 

 and having one or three, large, strong, deflexed prickles 

 under each bud. The leaves are rounded, 3-lobed, coarsely 

 cut, toothed, smooth, and veiny, about an inch long ; the 

 footstalks somewhat shorter, with a few scattered hairs 

 near their base. The clusters droop below the branches, 

 are 3- or 5-flowered, shorter than the leaves, slender and 

 smooth, with rounded, subamplexicaul bractese. The c^/z/.i' 

 is bell-shaped, yellowish-green, with linear, brownish red, 

 reflected segments, which are double the length of the 

 tube. Pe^«/5 wedge-shaped, white, half the length of the 

 limb. The stamens are exserted beyond the calyx, half an 

 inch long. Style considerably longer than the stamens, 

 semi-bifid, spreading, villous. Berry spherical, smooth, 

 one-third of an inch in diameter, black, pleasant to the 

 taste." 



* See fol. 1237. 



