NORTHERN GOOSEBERRY 



Flowers. May, June. Perfect, greenish purple, borne on two 

 to three-flowered short peduncles. Calyx-lobes narrow or oblong, 

 spatulate, greenish or dull purplish, seldom reflexed ; petals obo- 

 vate, small ; stamens longer than the calyx-lobes ; style two- 

 cleft, downy. 



Fruit. Small, several-seeded, about one-fourth of an inch in 

 diameter, smooth, purplish, of an agreeable flavor. July, August. 



NORTHERN GOOSEBERRY. HAWTHORN GOOSE- 

 BERRY 



Rlbes oxyacanthoides. 



Low shrub, two to four feet high, branches slender, reclined, 

 often crooked, reddish brown, commonly smooth, but sometimes 

 with scattered prickles ; spines single or triple, rather slender 

 and sharp, sometimes wanting ; found in wet woods and low 

 grounds. Ranges from Labrador and Newfoundland to the 

 North West Territory and south to New Jersey and Nebraska. 



Leaves. Solitary or in fascicles, alternate, simple, palmately 

 veined, orbicular, wedge-shaped or heart-shaped at base, deeply 

 three to five-lobed ; lobes incised and coarsely toothed, finely 

 pubescent above and beneath, but commonly glossy when grow- 

 ing ; vernation plicate. 



Flowers. May to July. Small, perfect, greenish white or 

 dull purplish, bell-like ; peduncles short, one to two-flowered. 



Calyx. Greenish white ; tube bell-like, coherent with the 

 ovary, five-lobed ; lobes oblong or obovate, thin and petaloid, 

 when mature recurved. 



Corolla. Petals five, dull purplish, broadly ovate or spatulate, 

 inserted on the calyx-tube, alternate with the sepals, reaching 

 half way to the anthers. 



Statue/is. Five, inserted on the calyx-tube, slightly included. 



Pistil. Ovary coherent with calyx, one-celled, style single or 

 slightly two-cleft, pubescent below, slightly longer than the 

 stamens. 



Fruit. Round, several-seeded, perfectly smooth, with a deli- 

 cate bloom, one-half inch in diameter, yellowish green or red- 

 dish when ripe, of an agreeable flavor. July, August. 



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