GROSSULARIA, GOOSEBERRY BUSH. 271 



The margins are dentate with uneven teeth, of average depth, & not as sharp. The leaves 

 are accented on the outside by quite prominent veins & indented on the inside by 

 corresponding grooves. The largest ones are twenty lignes from the stalk to the tip of the 

 central lobe, & twenty-three lignes from the tip of one large lateral lobe to the tip of the 

 other one. Thus they're much smaller than those on the cluster currant bush. The stalk is 

 big. from ten to fourteen lignes long. As on the cluster currant bush, the large leaf at the 

 base of the shoot is associated with two or three small leaves five to seven lignes long & 

 a little bit wider. Between these leaves there's a bud on a pedicel that lengthens in the 

 following spring and produces a small branch about four or five lignes long. Four or five 

 leaves of unequal size (the largest ones are fifteen lignes long & seventeen lignes wide) 

 & one or more flowers emerge from its tip. The bud stem is armed with three strong, 

 straight, and very sharp spines that form right angles with one another. They persist 

 through the following year, associated with the small fruiting branches. They become 

 somewhat curved, develop no further, and subsequently fall off. As a result, it's very rare 

 to find them on three-year-old branches. 



3°. The flowers for the most part are solitary. Sometimes there are two or three. & 

 rarely four, attached to one stalk. All of the component parts of the flower & their 

 arrangement are similar to those of the cluster currant bush, but they're larger. The bowl 

 of the calyx is very much deeper, & its sections are tinged a light purple. A lot of the 

 flowers have six sections, six petals, and six stamens. 



4°. The fruit varies in size, shape, & color according to the variety of gooseberry 

 bush. The stalk, from two to six lignes long, is attached flush with the fruit. Seven or 

 eight fibers, more conspicuous than those on the cluster currant bush, emerge from it. 



