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base; petals half as long, obovate-cuneate slightly revolute at the top, white or faintly 

 tinged with red, sometimes with a few hairs at the back; stamens white, as long as the sepals, 

 anthers greenish yellow, oblong. Berry roundish oval, dark red, pubescent or glabrous 

 with a thin skin; seeds small, numerous. 



Janczewski founded this hybrid on the variety Pale Red. A variety 

 which originated in 1833 in the nursery of Abel Houghton, Lynn, Massa- 

 chusetts, also belongs here. It is known as the Houghton gooseberry. This 

 hybrid comes very near G. downingiana. Of course there may be forms 

 intermediate between this and G. downingiana. 



Grossularia oxyacanthoides Linn. Miller Garii. Diet. Sth Ed. No. 4. 1768; Coville 

 & Britton A''. Am. Fl. 22:223. 1908; Berger N. Y. Sta. Tech. Bui. 109:106. 



1925- 

 Ribes oxyacanthoides. Linnaeus Sp. PI. 201. 1753; Loudon Arb. 2:968, fig. 715. 

 1844; Rehder in Bailey Stand. Cyc. Hort. 5:2961. 1916; Bean Trees & Shrubs 

 2:402. 1921. 



Hawthorn-leaved Gooseberry. — Low shrub of spreading or reclining habit, young 

 branches pubescent, glabrous later on, grayish, mostly very bristly; nodal spines 3 or more, 

 straight, subulate, i cm long. Dry bud-scales bearded with a white tomentose margin. 

 Leaves suborbicular, usually broader than long, slightly cordate or tnmcate or broadly 

 cuneate at the base, rather deeply s-lobed, lobes obtuse, dentate, on both sides slightly 

 pubescent or nearly glabrous, 2-4 cm wide; petioles shorter than the blades, pubescent and 

 sometimes with a few glandular hairs and scattered plumose fringes. Peduncles very short, 

 scarcely longer than the bud-scales, i- to 2 -flowered; pedicels short, glabrous, bracts small, 

 often glandular-ciliate. Ovary roundish, smooth, and glabrous; receptacle campanula te, 

 greenish white, glabrous, 2.5-3.5 mm long; sepals oblong, obtuse, spreading or reflexed, 

 usually slightly exceeding the receptacle, whitish; petals about 2 mm long or f as long as 

 the sepals or more, obovate, obtuse, white; stamens as long as the petals, anthers oblong, 

 scarcely i mm long; style bifid, hairy. Berry globose, smooth, 10-13 rnni across, purple, 

 slightly bloomy, sweet and good flavored. 



North America; from Newfoundland and the Hudson Bay to British 

 Columbia and the Yukon, south to North Dakota and northern Michi- 

 gan. This species is usually confused with G. irrigua, G. hirtella, and 

 G. setosa. The latter has, however, brown shoots, longer pedvmcles and 

 longer, cylindric-campanulate calyx-tubes; G. hirtella has the stamens 

 twice as long as the petals and as long or longer than the sepals and mostly 

 cuneate leaves; G. irrigua is less bristly, the peduncles well exserted from 

 the bud-scales and the perianth is a little larger, about 8-10 mm. long. 



Grossularia reclinata Linn. Miller Card. Diet. Sth Ed. No. i. 1768; Coville & 

 Britton N. Am. Fl. 22:223. 1908; Berger N. Y. Sta. Teeh. Bui. 109:108. 1925. 

 Ribes reclinatum. Linnaeus Sp. PL 201. 1753. 



