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

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

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

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

 in July and August. Horticultural Society's Garden. 



jt 11. i?. Grossula^ria L. The f owmo?j Gooseberry. 



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



Synonymcs. R. UVa-crfspa (Ed. Fl. Dan. 54R. ; Orossuiaria hirsOta Mill. Diet. No. 2. ; R. UN?- 



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



Feabes, Xor/otk ; Grozert in Scotland ; Groseiller a Maquereau, Fr. ; Griselle in Piedmont \ 



gemeine Stachelbeere, Ger. : Uva Spina, Ital. 

 Derivation. U'va-crispa signifies tlie 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 resemliling 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 our^^. 8-52. 



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. 

 St\le always beset with long down. {Don's 

 Mill.) A prickly spreading shrub. Europe and 

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

 4 ft. Flowers greenish ; April. Fruit com- 

 monly red, sometimes yellow or green ; ripe 

 in August. 



Varieties. 



^ R. G. 2 JTva-cTispa Smith 

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

 crispa Lin. Sp. 292., Smith 

 Engl. Bot. t. 2057. (our Jig. 

 852.); UVa-crispa Fuch. Hist. 

 t. 187. ; UVa spina Math. 



f. 1. ; R. UVa-crispa var. 1 sylvestris 



8J2. R. Grossulkria. 



151. 



Valgr. 1. t. 



Berlajidier ; has the berries smooth. 

 R. G. 3 spinosissima Berl. MSS. has the branches thickly 



beset with spines. 

 R. G. 4 reclinata Berl. MSS., R. reclinatum L,in. Sp. 



291., GiTossularia reclinata Mill. Diet. No. 1,, has the 



branches rather prickly, and reclinate. 

 R. G. 5 Besser'ikwa Berl. 3ISS., R. hybridum Besser 



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



and the fruit pubescent, intermixed with glandular ^. (fuVa- 



bristles. Native of Cracow, in hedges. "'^pa. 



R. G. 6 sjibi7iermis 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 macrocmpa Dec. Prod. iii. p. 478. Stigmas often longer 



than the petals. Flowers and berries large. 

 R. G. 8 bractedta Berl, MSS. Berries clothed with 245 



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



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



Mill.) ^ 



R. G. 9 himalaydnus, R. himalayanus Royle, was raised in the 



