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(female) and the gooseberry, raised by Mr Culverwell, of Thorpe Perrow, 

 Yorkshire, about 1880. It is a spineless shrub, and has flowers like the black 

 currant, but the foliage and inflorescence is more suggestive of the gooseberry. 

 An interesting curiosity of no value apparently either for fruit or ornament. 

 R. SCHNEIDERI, Maurer, is a hybrid of the same parentage, raised in 

 Germany, but with the sexes reversed. 



R. NIVEUM, Lindley. 

 (Bot. Reg., t. 1962.) 



An armed, deciduous shrub, up to 9 ft. high, the young shoots quite 

 smooth ; spines solitary or in threes, about \ in. long. Leaves between 

 roundish and kidney-shaped, three- to five-lobect, i to i^ ins. across ; usually 

 truncate at the base, the lobes unequally and bluntly toothed. Flowers 

 two to four together in slender-stalked, drooping clusters ; calyx and petals 

 smooth, white ; sepals ultimately much reflexed, leaving the stamens exposed 

 for in. Ovary smooth, stamens and style downy. Berry globose, smooth, 

 black with a purplish bloom, about \ in. diameter. 



Native of Western N.America; introduced in 1826. This gooseberry is 

 rather pretty and distinct in its wholly white flowers. 



R. ROBUSTUM, Janczewski, is a hybrid between this species and oxya- 

 canthoides. It is a very vigorous bush, and was received at Kew in 1890 from 

 the late Mr Nyeland, gardener to the King of Denmark. Beyond that I know 

 nothing of its origin. 



R. ORIENT ALE, Desfontaines. 



An unarmed, deciduous shrub, 5 or 6 ft. high ; young shoots and leaf- 

 stalks covered with stiff, gland-tipped sticky hairs. Leaves of the red currant 

 size and shape, but shining green and with" bristly down on the nerves 

 beneath ; stalk \ to i in. long. Flowers unisexual, the sexes on different 

 plants, and produced on somewhat erect racemes i to 2 ins. long ; they are 

 green suffused with red and covered with viscid hairs ; berry red, downy. 



Native of E. Europe and W. Asia. The R. resinosum of Pursh, until 

 recently regarded as a native of N. America, and figured as such in Bot. 

 Mag., t. 1538, is really this species. It has little garden value, but is distinct 

 in its unisexual flowers, very viscid glands, and erect racemes. 



R. PINETORUM, Greene. PlNE-WOOD GOOSEBERRY. 



A gooseberry growing 6 ft. high, found in the Mogollon Mountains of 

 New Mexico and in Arizona, often in pine-woods, an association from which 

 it derives its name ; introduced in 1902. It has the typically shaped leaf 

 of the gooseberries, smooth, blunt-toothed, and with long, slender stalks. The 

 young shoots are quite smooth ; the spines solitary, in pairs, or in threes, rich 

 brown, stout, slightly curved. Flowers solitary, orange-yellow, hairy outside ; 

 the sepals much reflexed, showing the erect petals. Berry black-purple, 

 globose, \ in. diameter, with numerous bristles. Although this species has 

 some of the most brilliantly coloured blossoms among gooseberries, they 

 are short-stalked and solitary (or very rarely in pairs) at each joint, and 

 make no great display. They appear in May, when the leaves are one- 

 third grown. 



R. PROSTRATUM, UHeritier. 



A deciduous, unarmed shrub with prostrate, rooting branches ; young 

 shoots smooth Leaves deeply five- to seven-lobed, \\ to 4 ins, wide, the 



