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styles, quite glabrous. Stem erect or procumbent. Petals white. Berries 
glabrous. (Don’s Mill.) A prickly shrub. Siberia, on stony; rocky, moun- 
tainous places. Height 1 ft. to 2ft. Introduced ? 1815, Flowers whitish ; 
April and May. Fruit yellowish or purplish ; grateful to the taste; ripe 
in July and August. Horticultural Society’s Garden. 
« 11. R. Grossuta‘ria L. The common Gooseberry. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., p. 291. ; Smith’s Engl. Bot., t. 1292.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 179. 
Synonymes. R. U‘va-crispa Ed. Fl. Dan. 546.; Grossularia hirsdta Mill. Dict. No. 2.; R. U'va- 
crispa var. 5. sativa Dec. Fl. Fr. 4. p.408.; Feaberry, Cheshire and the North of England ; 
Feabes, Norfolk; Grozert in Scotland; Groseiller 4 Maquereau, F7.; Griselle 7m Piedmont ; 
gemeine Stachelbeere, Ger. ; Uva Spina, Ital. 
Derivation, U'va-crispa signifies the rough grape. Feaberry is a corruption of fever-berry, from 
the fruit being formerly, according to Gerard, idered a specifi ai fevers ; Feabes, or 
Feapes, is an abbreviation of feaberry. Grozert is evidently taken from the French name. 
Groseiller 4 Maquereau is from the Latin name Grossularia, and the use made of the fruit as a 
sauce for mackerel. Stachelbeere signifies prickly berry § and Uva Spina, the prickly grape. 
Gooseberry is from gorse berry, from the prickliness of the bush resembling that of the gorse, 
or furze ; or, more probably, from the use made of the fruit as a sauce to young, oF green, 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 1292. ; and our fig. 852. 
Spec. Char., ce. Prickles 2 or 3 under each bud. 
Branches otherwise smooth, and spreading or 
erect. Pedicels 1—2-flowered. Leaves 3—5- 
lobed, rather villous. Bracteas close together. 
Calyx campanulate, with reflexed segments, 
which are shorter than the tube. Petals rounded 
at the apex, glabrous, but bearded in the throat. 
Style always beset with long down. (Don’s 
Mill.) A prickly spreading shrub. Europe and 
Nepal, in woods and hedges. Height 2ft. to 
4 ft. Flowers greenish; April. Fruit com- 
monly red, sometimes yellow or green; ripe 
in August, 
Varieties. 
a« R. G. 2 Wva-crispa Smith 
Engl. FI. ii. p. 333.; R. U'va «34 
crispa Lin. Sp. 292., Smith GX 
Engl. Bot. t. 2057. (our jig. 
ou 852.); U'va-crispa Fuch. Hist. 
Spe Es eens: t.187.; Uva spina Math. 
Valgr, 1, t. 151. f. 1.3; R. U'va-crispa var. 1 sylvéstris 
Berlandier ; has the berries smooth. 
a RK. G. 3 spinosissima Berl. MSS. has the branches thickly 
beset with spines. 
= R. G. 4 reclindta Berl. MSS., R. reclinatum Lin, Sp. 
291., Grossularia reclinata Mull. Dict. No. 1., has the 
branches rather prickly, and reclinate. 
= R. G. 5 Besseriana Berl. MSS., R. hybridum Besser 
Prim, Fl. Gall. Austr. p.186., has the branches prickly, 
and the fruit pubescent, intermixed with glandular 
bristles. Native of Cracow, in hedges. - 
« R. G. 6 subinérmis Berl. MSS.— Plant nearly glabrous. Bark smooth, 
brown. Prickles axillary. Flowers and leaves small. Native about 
Geneva. Perhaps a subvariety of R. G. reclinata. 
as R.G, 7 macrocérpa Dec. Prod. iii, p.478.— Stigmas often longer 
than the petals. Flowers and berries large. 
a R. G. 8 bracteata Berl. MSS.—Berries clothed with 2—4—5 
straight, coloured, nearly opposite, bracteas and bristles, resembling 
sepals, which fall off before the berry arrives at maturity. (Don’s 
Mill.) 
a RG. , himalayanus, R. himalayanus Royle, was raised in the 
