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styles, quite glabrous. Stem erect or procumbent. Petals white. Berries 

 glabrous. (Don's Mill.) A prickly shrub. Siberia, on stony, rocky, moun- 

 tainous places. Height 1 ft. to 2ft. Introduced ? 1815. Flowers whitish ; 

 April and May. Fruit yellowish or purplish ; grateful to the taste ; ripe 

 in July and August. Horticultural Society's Garden. 



ji 11. R. GROSSULA X RIA L. The common Gooseberry. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., p. 291. ; Smith's Engl. Bot., t. 1292. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 179. 

 Symmymes. R. ITva-crfspa (Ed. Fl. Dan. 546. ; Grossularia hirsuta Mill. Diet. No. 2. ; R. UVa- 



crispa var. 5. satlva Dec. Fl. Fr. 4. p. 408. ; Feaberry, Cheshire and the North of England ; 



Feabes, Norfolk ; Grozert in Scotland ; Groseiller a Maquereau, Fr. ; Griselle in Piedmont ; 



gemeine Stachelbeere, Ger. ; Uva Spina, Ital. 

 Derivation. LTva-crispa signifies the rough grape. Feaberry is a corruption of fever-berry, from 



the fruit being formerly, according to Gerard, considered a specific against fevers ; Feabes, or 



Feapes, is an abbreviation of feaberry. Grozert is evidently taken from the French name. 



Groseiller a Maquereau is from the Latin name Grossularia, and the use made of the fruit as a 



sauce for mackerel. Stachelbeere signifies prickly berry ; and Uva Spina, the prickly grape. 



Gooseberry is from gorse berry, from the prickliness of the bush resembling that of the gorse, 



or furze ; or, more probably, from the use made of the fruit as a sauce to young, or green, 



geese. 

 Engravings. Eng. Bot, t, 1292. ; and OUT Jig. 852. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Prickles 2 or 3 under each bud. 

 Branches otherwise smooth, and spreading or 

 erect. Pedicels 1 2-flowered. Leaves 3 5- 

 lobed, rather villous. Bracteas close together. 

 Calyx campanulate, with reflexed segments, 

 which are shorter than the tube. Petals rounded 

 at the apex, glabrous, but bearded in the throat. 

 Style always beset with long down. (Don's 

 Mill.) A prickly spreading shrub. Europe and 

 Nepal, in woods and hedges. Height 2ft. to 

 4 ft. Flowers greenish ; April. Fruit com- 

 monly red, sometimes yellow or green; ripe 

 in August. 



Varieties. 



* R. G. 2 LTva-cnspa Smith 

 Engl. Fl. ii. p. 333. ; R. tTva 

 crispa Lin. Sp. 292., Smith 

 Engl. Bot. t. 2057. (our fig. 

 8.52.); U x va-crispa Fuch. Hist. 

 t. 187. ; UVa spina Math. 



Valgr. 1. t. 151. f. 1. ; R. UVa-crfspa var. 1 sylvestris 

 Berlandier ; has the berries smooth, 

 j* R. G. 3 spinos'tesima Berl. MSS. has the branches thickly 



beset with spines. 



jt R. G. 4 reclindta Berl. MSS., R. reclinatum Lin. 

 291., Grossularia reclinata Mill. Diet. No. 1., has tl 

 branches rather prickly, and reclinate. 



j* R. G. 5 Besseriaua Berl. MSS., R. hybridum Besscr 

 Prim. Fl. Gall. Austr. p. 186., has the branches prickly, 

 and the fruit pubescent, intermixed with glandular R , 

 bristles. Native of Cracow, in hedges. cris P a - 



j* K. G. 6 subinermis'Berl, MSS. Plant nearly glabrous. Bark smooth, 

 brown. Prickles axillary. Flowers and leaves small. Native about 

 Geneva. Perhaps a subvariety of R. G. reclinata. 



-** R. G. 7 macrocdrpa Dec. Prod. iii. p. 478. Stigmas often longer 

 than the petals. Flowers and berries large. 



j R. G. 8 bractedta Berl. MSS. Berries clothed with 2 4 5 



straight, coloured, nearly opposite, bracteas and bristles, resembling 

 sepals, which fall off before the berry arrives at maturity. (Don's 



852. R. Grossularia. 



sepals, 

 Mill.) 

 j* R. G. 9 himalaydnus, R. himalayanus 



Royle y was raised in the 



