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often occur. Reports from the Arnold Arboretum* state that in- 

 dividual plants raised from seed collected from the same plant 

 may produce either smooth or prickly fruit. The berries are 

 rather thick skinned when mature, but sweet and pleasant. The 



Fig. 94. Ribes cynosbati (Xl%). 



Fig. 95. Ribes lacustre (XI). 



plants are generally prolific, and are less prickly than those of 

 R. oxyacanthoides, being almost free from thorns in some cases. 



26. E. WATSONIANUM, Koehne, E. ambiguum, Watson, t not Maxi- 

 mo wicz. 



Young branches somewhat thick and soft, sometimes sparsely 

 beset with weak prickles, which cleave away with the bark ; spines 

 commonly three or more in a whorl, slender, yellowish, the center 

 one longer than the others, young parts glandular pubescent and 

 villous; leaves 1-2 inches (2%-5 cm.) in diameter, roundish 

 heart-shaped, deeply 3-5-lobed, bearing short hairs both above 

 and below ; petioles long, slender, prominently ciliate ; calyx tube 

 broadly campanulate or hemispherical, shorter than the lobes, 



*Garden and Forest, 7:315.- 

 fProc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sciences, 18:193. 

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