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ordinary wild gooseberry, or middle-sized pea), absolutely inde- 
hiscent, the pressed and dried pericarp being unbroken, translu- — 
cent and showing the seeds that lie within, just as, in the herba- 
rium, the seeds of many a berry-like fruit are seen through their 1 
fleshy covering in its dried state. 
In habit, this summer state of V. Dicksonii is much like that 
of V. communis (V. papilionacea, we now call it), the leaves 
being commonly two or three only, and the flowers and fruits 
not more numerous. The largest of Mr. Dickson’s examples in — 
this stage is more than fourteen inches high, its largest leaf over 
four inches broad and about as long. All show a broad shallow 
sinus, and vary from round-reniform and obtuse to subcordate- — 
reniform and acutish. , None appear to have been cucullate. 
This species is now known to range from southwestern Onta- — 
rio to Quebec on the Canadian side ; and it seems to be a plant — 
of open woodlands and thickets. Mr. Dickson himself says 
“moist banks in thin woods, near Hamilton.” About Ottawa, 
according to Mr. J. M. Macoun (n. 18,770), it is found on 
“ grassy banks and open woods near streams, Rideau River ;” 
and again, for petaliferous specimens of the same herbarium 
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appears to be a berry. It is evidently globose (as large asan — 
number: ‘“Thickets on the bank of the Rideau River.” The 
plant is to be expected as perhaps common in northern New 
York, but there is no sure proof yet of its being there, though 
I see ground for suspicion that Mr. House obtained it, this 
year, near Syracuse, if so, confusing it with V. nodosa. In | 
Western Vermont Mr. Brainerd finds it “in open woods at base 
of mountains, Middlebury ” n. 51, petaliferous, also under n, 51, 
growing “under bushes near Boardman sugar-orchard, near 
Middlebury,” and again, in “rich soil on a shaded limestone 
cliff, Orwell,” n. 101, these last two late, showing more or less 
hypogeous fruits, but none baccate. Small specimens of late 
summer stage, in fruit, but none — are sent from Royalton, i; 
Vermont, by Mr. W. W. Egglesto 
V. NoDosa, Greene, Pitt. iv. 296. Often called upon, as I 
