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when old; petioles pubescent, with some long hairy or glandular fringes near the base. 

 Peduncles as long or shorter than the petioles, glabrous or puberulous, i- to 2-flowered; 

 bracts roundish, glandular-ciliate, pedicels glabrous or hairy at the end. Ovary oblong or 

 pyriform, varying on the same branch from glabrous to densely pubescent. Receptacle 

 campanulate, about 4 mm. long and wide, green and pubescent, densely hairy inside; 

 sepals linear-oblong, obtuse, spreading or reflexed, 6-7 mm long, pubescent outside, green, 

 purplish along the margins, from greenish red to pretty red inside; petals spatulate, white, 

 erect, I as long as the sepals; stamens exceeding the sepals, filaments filiform, straight, 

 connivent, white, glabrous, anthers oblong, green; style finally exceeding them, split almost 

 half way, green, hairj' below. Berry roundish elliptic, dark reddish purple, smooth, thin 

 skinned, good quality. 



Originated by Dr. Van Fleet and distributed by the United States 

 Department of Agriculture in Washington; cultivated at this Station. It 

 holds its foliage late in the fall and is said to be promising for southern 

 regions. The flowers resemble those of R. siiccirubnun {G. nivea x divaricata) . 

 It must not be confused with the gooseberry variety Van Fleet, introduced 

 by T. G. Lovett in 19 17 which was also raised by Dr. Van Fleet, but from 

 Houghton X (Keepsake x Industry) Fa generation. 



Grossularia divaricata Dougl. Coville & Britton A''. Am. Fl. 22:224. 1908; Berger 



N. Y. Sta. Tech. Bid. 109:96. 1925. 

 Ribes divaricatum Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc. London 7:515. 1830; Loudon Arh. 2:970. 



1844; Card Bush-Fr. 457. 1898; Heller Muhlenhergia i:g8. 1904; Schneider 



III. Hdb. Laubh. 1:415. 1905; 7&i(i. 2:950. 1912; Janczewski Mowogr. 390, fig, 112. 



1907; Rehder in Bailey Stand. CycHort. 5:2961. 1916; Bean Trees & Shrubs 402. 



1921. 



Ribes vtllosum Nutt. Torrey & Gray Fl. N. Am. 1:547. 1840; not Ro.xburgh, 

 1824. 



Ribes tomentosum. Koch Wochenschrift /. Gartn. & Pfl. 2:138. 1859. 



Ribes Suksdorfii. Heller Muhlenbergia 3:11. 1907. 



A vigorously growing, bushy shrub, with arching branches, up to 3 m high; young 

 shoots sometimes bristly, but mostly not so, gray or brown; nodal spines variable, sometimes 

 none or i, 2, 3, or more, generally stout, sometimes very stout and conical and over 2 cm 

 long, brown, straight, or recurved. Leaves suborbicular, 2-6 cm wide, 5-lobed or some- 

 times 3-lobed, cordate, reniform, truncate or roundish at the base, thin, the lobes blunt, 

 coarsely crenate-dentate, finely pubescent on both sides, chiefly on the veins beneath, 

 sometimes glabrous ; petiole slender, pubescent, generally shorter than the blade. Peduncles 

 slender, drooping, about as long as the petioles, 2- to 4-flowered, glabrous; bracts small, 

 ovate, glabrous, or ciliate; pedicels filifonn, glabrous. Ovary roundish, glabrous; receptacle 

 campanulate, 2-3 mm long, greenish puriDlish, usually glabrous; sepals oblong, obtuse, 

 purplish or greenish and purj^lish at the base, 2-3 times as long as the receptacle, recurved; 

 petals obovate to almost fan-shaped, white or purplish, less than half as long as the sepals; 

 stamens as long or longer than the sepals, anthers small, roundish; style deeply divided, 



