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vated varieties belong, either partially or entirely, is more 

 common in New England than in New York. Its range 

 extends northward through Canada and westward to California. 

 Its fruit is red or purplish, with smooth thin skin. It has 

 shorter stamens and broader calyx lobes than R. rotundifolium 



European Gooseberries. The slender branches arch or droop 

 gracefully in marked contrast to the thick, straight branches 

 of the European R. Grossularia. 



Houghton resembles Pale Red very closely in foliage and 

 fruit, but its habit of growth is less upright. Possibly it be- 



Fig. 59. — Vitis Doaniana. — See page 454. 



has, and it is also characterized by very short peduncles. It 

 is sometimes armed with short prickles between the nodes, or 

 the lower parts of the canes may be thickly beset with prickles. 

 The prickles which occur beneath the axils of the leaves are 

 short and slender as compared with those which characterize 



longs purely to the oxyacanthoidrs species, but a study of 

 seedlings of known parentage which 1 have grown suggests 

 that it is a hybrid between Ribcs oxyacanthoides and R. l'<ros- 

 sularia. Pure seedlings of it grown here have not yet fruited, 

 but they show no marked Grossularia character so far as foli- 



