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beset with some scattered bristles. This abounds through the 
north, in cold wet woods from Newfoundland to the Pacific. 
There is a dwarf variety of this in the higher Rocky Mountains 
and northwestward, smaller in all its parts, and with fewer- 
flowered racemes. In some publications I have called it R. se- 
tosum, a species said to have been raised by the Loddiges from 
seed sent by Douglas. This very one was received from the 
Messrs. Loddiges under that name thirty years ago, and cultivated 
in the Cambridge Botanic Garden. Yet it is not the plant pub- 
lished and figured by Lindley, as will be presently seen. I pass 
a 
II. The true gooseberries, with peduncles bearing only one or 
two or at most four flowers, and calyx-cup bell-shaped or tubu- 
lar. These may be roughly arranged in three sets by the color 
of the flower. 
C1.) Yellow-flowered. The only one of this subdivision is the 
R. leptanthum Gray. It belongs to the Rocky Mountains of 
Colorado and New Mexico, and to the drier parts of the Sierra 
Nevada. It was first collected by Dr. Edwin James in Long’s 
expedition, but was named and described long afterwards, from 
Fendler’s New Mexican collection. It is an insignificant, small- 
leaved, and slender-flowered species. The dried flowers do not 
seem to have been really yellow, but they are said to be so by 
the collectors in the Sierra Nevada, where, however, the flower is 
generally shorter, broader, and more downy. We would ask 
those who have met or may meet with it in the Rocky Mountain 
region if the flowers are really yellow or yellowish there. 
(2.) White or greenish flowered, sometimes with a dull pur- 
Plish tinge. To this division belong all our edible gooseberries, 
and here lie the main difficulties in the way of distinguishing 
the species, 
Two of these may be known from the rest by having the lobes 
of the calyx decidedly shorter than the tube, and their berries 
are apt to be prickly. They are 
R. setosum Lindl., a white-flowered species with a narrow cy- 
lindrical calyx-tube. It takes its name from the slender scat- 
tered prickles on the branches ; but these are sometimes wanting, 
being an inconstant character in all the species. The young 
berries are either perfectly smooth and naked, or beset with a 
few bristly prickles. This is the R. oryacanthoides of Hooker's 
ra, but certainly not of Linneus. It belongs to the Saskatcha- 
wan region, extending into Montana and Wyoming. No. 107 of 
