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GROSSULACEJE. (CURRANT FAMILY.) 
1. KIBES, L. Currant. Gooseeerry. 
Stamens mostly short and included, inserted alternately with 
the petals on the throat of the calyx. Styles 2, distinct or united. 
Ripe seeds (numerous) enveloped in a gelatinous coat. — Leaves 
often clustered in the axils, with the flowers from the same clus¬ 
ters or from separate buds. (Name of Arabic origin.) 
§ 1. GrossulXria, Tourn. (Gooseberry.) — Stems mostly bearing 
thorns at the base of the leafstalks or clusters , and often with scat¬ 
tered bristly prickles : berries prickly or smooth. 
* Peduncles 1 - & flowered : leaves roundish, heart-shaped, 3 - 5-lobed. 
1. It. Cyn6sbati, L. (Prickly Gooseberry.) Leaves pu¬ 
bescent; peduncles slender, 2-3-flowered; stamens and undivided 
style not longer than the broad calyx. — Rocky woods, very common 
northward. May. — Spines various, strong. Berry large, armed 
with long prickles like a burr, or rarely smooth. 
2. It. hirtellum, Michx. (Short-stalked Wild Goose¬ 
berry.) Leaves somewhat pubescent beneath ; peduncles very short, 
1 - 2-flowered, deflexed ; stamens and 2-cleft style scarcely longer than 
the bell-shaped ( purplish) calyx ; fruit smooth. — N. England to Mich¬ 
igan, common. May. — Stems either smooth or prickly, and with 
very short thorns, or none. Berry purple, pleasant. — This is the 
commonest smooth gooseberry of N. England, &c., and usually 
passes for R. triflorum, Willd ., which name belongs to the next. 
3. It. rotundilblium, Michx. (Slender-stalked Smooth 
Gooseberry.) Leaves nearly smooth ; peduncles slender, 1 - 2-flow 
ered; stamens and 2-parted style slender , longer than the narrow cyhn 
drical calyx; fruit smooth. Rocks, W. Massachusetts to Penn, an 
Michigan. June.— Leaves rounded, with very short and blunt 
lobes, often rather wedge-form at the base. Thorns short. Berries 
sweet and pleasant. 
* * Racemes 5 -^-flowered, loose, slender, nodding. 
4. It. lacustre, Poir. (Swamp Gooseberry.) Young stems 
clothed with bristly prickles, and with several weak thorns; leaves 
heart-shaped, 3 - 5-parted, with the lobes deeply cut; calyx broa 
and flat; stamens and style not longer than the petals; fruit bris ) 
(small, unpleasant). — Cold woods and swamps, common northwar 
June. 
§ 2. Ribesia, Berl. (Currant.) — Neither prickly nor thorny: fl oW 
ers in racemes: berries never prickly. (Flowers greenish ) 
5. R. prostratum, L’Her. (Fetid Currant.) ® tem f ^ 
dined; leaves deeply heart-shaped, 5 - 7-lobed, smooth; the 0 
ovate, acute, doubly serrate ; racemes erect, slender; calyx Ha 1 ' 
pedicels and the (pale-red) fruit glandular-bristly. (R- rigens, Mic • 
