GOOSEBERRY FAMILY. Grossulariaceae. 
GOOSEBERRY FAMILY. Grossulariaceae. 
A small family, shrubs, with alternate, palmately-lobed 
leaves, often sticky or resinous; the flowers almost always 
in clusters; the pedicels with a bract at the base and 
usually with two bractlets halfway up; petals five, or 
rarely four, usually smaller than the calyx-lobes; stamens 
of the same number as the petals and alternate with them; 
ovary inferior, with two styles, more or less united; fruit 
a berry, crowned with the withered remains of the flower. 
There are several kinds of Grossularia, or Gooseberry; 
shrubs, sometimes with trailing branches, almost always 
spiny; flowers with bracts; ovary often spiny. 
; This is a stout shrub, one to four feet 
Wild Gooseberry .. : : a Tia Sa 
eae Se high, with thick, short, rigid little branches, 
“Roézli (Ribes) the knobby joints more or less spiny. 
Maroon and white The roundish leaves, less than an inch 
eae across, are lobed and scalloped, rather 
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dull green and slightly downy, and the 
flowers are about half an inch long, with maroon-colored 
sepals and white petals, the base of the calyx-tube downy. 
The purple berry is half an inch in diameter and covered 
with stout prickles. This Gooseberry is common at 
moderate altitudes. The drooping, red and white flowers 
resemble tiny Fuchsias, both in color and form. G. 
Menziésii, the Canyon Gooseberry, also has pretty fuchsia- 
like flowers and grows in the Coast Ranges of California 
and Oregon, blooming in the winter. 
In spite of its name, the flowers of this 
Fuchsia-flowered 14ndsome shrub do not look as much like 
G berr : 
eran Fuchsias as the two last. The stems are 
speciosa armed with long thorns and the leaves 
Red are thick, dark green, and glossy. The 
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Catiieria flowers have four sepals, four petals, and 
four stamens and are about an inch long 
and beautiful bright-red in color. The berry is dry and 
very prickly. This is common in the southern part of 
California. 
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