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habit on account of its very numerous gracefully recurved branches; 
its long-stalked drooping flowers, which appear before the maturity 
of the leaves, are very conspicuous for a gooseberry-bush, and the 
numerous vivid-green scalloped leaves seem to be wholly free from 
the disfiguring effects of diseases and animal pests. 
Although not native north of middle Georgia, this shrub is 
perfectly hardy as far north as the latitude of southern Canada. 
It may be a southern plant whose ancestors survived the rigors of 
the ice age and whose adaptation to a colder climate still enables 
it to — in a latitude far north of its present natural geographic 
ran 
The southern gooseberry is a spine-armed shrub about a yard tall 
or less. ‘The branches are conspicuously recurved, clothed we a 
purplish bark which ultimately becomes loose and papery. 
branchlets are reddish, wiry, and often drooping at the tips. Th Be 
numerous small leaves are bright green, with suborbicular deeply 
lobed blades eines a petioles. The flowers are 
solitary, nodding, usually numerous. ‘The flower-tube is glandular. 
The sepals are a, inear = “ihearsepatulate, about a quarter of 
an inch long, recurved, whitish and with hyaline edges. The 
petals are white, much smaller than the eevials: each with a pair of 
rie ee near ee apex. ‘The stamens are erect, conspicuous, 
iry filaments and red anthers. ‘The style is pee ent. 
The ben is globose, often fully a quarter of an ee in diameter. 
Jou MAL 
EXPLANATION OF Pate. Fig. 1.—Flowering branch. Fig. 2.—Fruiting 
branch, 
