972 ARBORETUM AND FRDTICETUM. PART III. 



Spec, Char., i\V. Very prickly. Prickles stipular, 3 — 5-parted. Leaves 

 rather pubescent, nearly orbicular, 3 — 5-lobed. Lobes bluntish, deeply ser- 

 rated. Peduncles usually 1 -flowered, bractcolate in the middle. Calyx 

 campanulate, smoothish. Berries bractless, and, as well as the styles, quite 

 glabrous. Stem erect, or procumbent. Petals white. Berries glabrous, 

 yellowish, or purplish; sweet, with a grateful taste. {Don's Mill., iii. p. 178.) 

 A native of Siberia, on stony, rocky, mountainous places. Plants bearing 

 this name are in the Horticultural Society's Garden. 



afe 11. 7?. Grossula v ria L. The common Gooseberry. 



Identification. Lin Sp., p. 291.; Smith's Engl. Bot., t. 1292.; Don's Mill., 3. p. 179.; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 



Si/noni/mes. H. ITva-crispa (Ed. Fl. Dan.,5$G. ; Grossularia hirsuta Mill. Diet, No. 2.; R. LPva- 

 crispa var. 5 sativa Dec. Fl. F>\, 4. p. 408., Plcnclc Icon., 148.; Feaberry, Cheshire and the 

 north of England ; Feabes, Norfolk ; Grozert in Scotland ; Groseiller a Maquereau, Fr. ; Griselle 

 in Piedmont ; gemeine Stachclbecrc, Go: j Uva Spina, Ital. 



Derivation. U'va-crfspa signifies the rough grape. Feaberry is r a corruption of fever-berry, from 

 the fruit being formerly, according to Gerard, considered a specific against fevers ; feabes, or 

 feapes, is an abbreviation of feaberry. Grozert is evidently taken from the French name. 

 Grosseillcr a Maquereau is from the Latin name Grossularia, and the use made of the fruit as a 

 sauce for mackerel. Stachelbecre signifies prickly berry; and Uva Spina, the prickly grape. 

 Gooseberry is from gorsc 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, or green, geese. 



Engraving. Engl. Bot, t. 1292. 



Spec. Char., Sj-c. 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 seg- 

 ments, 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., iii. p. 179.) A native of Europe and Nepal, in woods and 

 hedges. 



Varieties. 



& R. G. 2 U K va-crispa Smith Engl. Fl., ii. p. 333. ; 7?.U v va-crispa Lin. Sp. y 

 292., Smith Engl. Bot.,t. 2057.; UVa erf spa Fuch. Hist., t. 187.; 

 UVa spina Math. Valgr., 1. 1. 151. f. 1., Blackw. Herb., 277.; R. 

 UVa-crispa var. 1 sylvestris Berlandier ; has the berries smooth. 



Sfe R. G. 3 sjyinosissima Berl. MSS. has the branches thickly beset with 

 spines. 



afe R. G. 4 reclindta Berl. MSS.; R. reclinatum Lin. Sp., 291.; Gros- 

 sularia reclinata Mill. Diet., No. 1.; has the branches rather prickly, 

 and reclinate. 



afe R. G. 5 Besse?Tdna Berl. MSS.; ii!.hybridum BesserPrim. Fl. Gall. Austr., 

 p. 186.; has the branches prickly, and the fruit pubescent, inter- 

 mixed with glandular bristles. Native of Cracow, in hedges. 



St R. G. 6 subinermis Berl. MSS. — Plant nearly glabrous. Bark smooth, 

 brown. Prickles axillary. Flowers and leaves small. Native about 

 Geneva. Perhaps a subvariety of R. G. reclinata. 



& R. G. 7 macrocdrpa Dec. Prod., iii. p. 478. — Stigmas often longer than 

 the'petals. Flowers and berries large. 



& R. (t. 8 bracieata 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., iii. 

 p. 179.) 



Other Varieties. We have little doubt that the greater number of the sorts 

 described in this division of the section Grossuluriae are only wild varieties 

 of the common gooseberry. Till lately, botanists made even the rough 

 and the smooth-fruited kinds of the cultivated gooseberry two distinct 

 species, as may be seen by the synonymes to R. UVa-crispa above ; though it 

 was recorded by Withering, that seeds from the same fruit would produce 

 both rough and smool Ji-fruited plants. If varieties were to be sought for 

 among the sorts in cultivation, they would be found almost without number. 

 The following selection of garden varieties has been made solely with 

 reference to the habit of growth of the plants: — 



