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herst catalogue gives West River Mountain, on the authority 
of Hitchcock. I wish to obtain flowering specimens of it from 
all parts of its range ; for the limits between it and the following 
are obscure. Its range is more southern and comparatively re- 
stricted ; the flower is narrower, and the stamens longer, becom- 
ing a quarter of an inch in length and nearly double that of the 
calyx-lobes ; the peduncles also are longer ; but this character 
does not hold out well. Although it belongs to a district most 
of all familiar to botanists, I have seen few flowering specimens. 
The New York catalogue in the Bulletin of the Torrey Club 
cites “ Fort Lee, W. H. L., and foot of 60th Street, North River, 
LeRoy.” A specimen of the latter is preserved in the Torrey 
herbarium, and is the European gooseberry. R. triflorum Willd 
is, I think, rightly referred to R. rotundifolium, an earlier name. 
R. oxyacanthoides L. We must bring this name into use in 
place of R. hirtellum Michx. (which is generally inappropriate), 
for no reasonable doubt remains that it is the Hudson’s Bay 
gooseberry, figured by Dillenius, upon which Linnæus founded 
the species. It is the common smooth-fruited gooseberry of 
New England and the whole region northward, and it extends 
westward to and beyond the Rocky Mountains, and even into 
the Sierra Nevada of California. It has shorter peduncles than 
the preceding, but this distinction is by no means absolute; the 
flower is broader, and the stamens merely equal or only slightly 
exceed the calyx-lobes. It is the R. sazoswm of Hooker, whose 
R. oxyacanthoides is R. setosum, while that of Michaux is R. 
lacustre. 
R. divaricatum Douglas. This takes the place of all the pre- 
ceding on the Pacific side, and ranges from the lower part of 
California (in a downy form, R. villosum of Nuttall) to British 
Columbia, meeting R. oryacanthoides in the interior. There is a 
form (var. irriguum, the R. trriguum of Douglas), of which we 
know too little, which comes near to R. rotundifolium. The 
Species is pretty well marked by its slender peduncle and pedi- 
cels, mostly 3—4-flowered, oblong and livid-purple calyx-lobes, 
and short and broad tube ; the stamens about a quarter of an 
Meh long, and thrice the length of the broadly wedge-shaped 
and nearly white petals. The flower, ovary included, is from a 
third to half an inch long. The berries are said to be excellent. 
(3.) Red-flowered species. These all belong to the Pacific side 
— continent, are large-flowered, and their berries are unfit to 
eat. 
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