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The bush bears some similarity to R. triflorum. The fruit resembles a 

 small smooth gooseberry ; " but its flavour is very different : it is entirely des- 

 titute of the flatness which is more or less perceptible in even the best goose- 

 berries; in lieu of which it has a rich subacid, vinous, rather perfumed, flavour, 

 which is extremely agreeable. The fruit is rather too acid to be eaten raw ; but, 

 when ripe, it makes delicious tarts, and would, probably, afford an excellent 

 means of improving the common gooseberry by cross breeding." (Lindl.) R. 

 niveum, apart from these considerations (which, however, will probably lead 

 to its culture in the kitchen-garden), is, from its white pendulous flowers, a 

 valuable addition to our ornamental hardy shrubs. 



jj 5. R. (T.) CYNO'SBATI L. The Dog-Bramble Gooseberry. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 292. ; Dec. Prod., 3. p. 479. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 178. 



Si/n&ta/me. R. ? trifloi um var. 



Engravings. Mem. Soc. Phys. Gen., 3. pars 2. t. 1. f. 3. ; and our/;g. 84G. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Infra-axillary 

 prickles 1 2. Leaves 3 4-lobed, 

 softly pubescent. Peduncles bear- 

 ing 2 3 flowers. Calyx campanu- 

 lately cylindrical. Petals small, 

 much shorter than the stigmas and 

 stamens. Style simple, toward the 

 middle hairy, rarely glabrous. Berry 

 prickly. (Dec. Prod.) A prickly 

 shrub. Canada, on mountains ; and 

 also Japan. Height 3 ft. to 4 ft. In- 

 troduced in 1759. Flowers whitish; 

 April. Fruit reddish. 



Varieties. There are two forms of 

 this species : 



* R. (t.) C. Ifructuglabro, with 



whitish flowers and smooth fruit. Native of Hudson's Bay. 

 j R. (t.) C. 2fructu aculedto, with prickly branches and fruit, and flowers 

 pubescent and purplish. Native of Lake Huron. 



Hardly differs from R. divaricatum, except in the broader tube of the 

 corolla, and the shorter stamens. 



j* 6. R. (T.) DIVARICA^TUM Dougl. The spre&ding-branched Gooseberry. 



Identification. Dougl. in Bot. Reg., t. 1359. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 178. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 Si/nonymes. R. ? triflbrum var. ; R. ? Grossularia var. triflbra subvar. 

 Engravings. Bot. Keg., t. 1359. ; and our fig. 847. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Branches divaricate, bristly, 

 at length naked. Spines 1 3 together, axil- 

 lary, deflexed, large. Leaves roundish, 3-lobed, 

 deeply toothed, nerved, glabrous. Peduncles 

 3-flowered, drooping. Calyx funnel-shaped; 

 with the segments at length spreading, and 

 twice the length of the tube. Style and sta- 

 mens exserted. (Don's Mill.) A large prickly 

 shrub, with ascending branches. North Ame- 

 rica, on the north-east coast, common on 

 the banks of streams near Indian villages. 

 Height 5ft. to 7ft. Introduced in 1826. 

 Flowers white ; April. Fruit black, smooth, 

 spherical, agreeable to eat ; ripe in July. 



Nearly allied to R. triflorum, of which, like 

 R. Cynosbati and some of the following sorts, it is, probably, only a variety. 



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846. A. (t.) Cyttdsbati. 



847. . (t.) divariciktum. 



