420 WOODY PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
5- (rarely 4-) cleft; at length spreading or reflexed. Petals 
distinct, small, alternate with the segments of the calyx, and 
gruwing from its throat. Stamens alturnate vith the petals; 
anthers turned inwards. Ovary i-celled, with niuucrous ovules. 
Styles 2, (very rarely 3 or 4,) distinct or umited. Fruit a 
berry, crowned with the remains of the flower, 1-celled, many- 
seeded. Seeds suspended by long threads. Embryo minute, 
situated in the sharper extremity. Leaves alternate, palmately 
veined and lobed, without stipules, sometimes sprinkled with 
resinous dots. Flowers in racemes.—FYora of N. A., I, 544. 
DC., Prodromus, II, 477. 
There are four species of gooseberry and two of currant found 
native in Massachusetts, of which the specific characters are 
taken, with slight changes, from the N. A. Flora, as I have not 
been able sufficiently to study and compare the species for my- 
self. 
Sp. 1. Tse Pricxty Goosrgerry. J. cyndsbati. L. 
Stems either unarmed or prickly ; sub-axillary spines 1—3; leaves cordate, 
roundish, 3—5-lobed, more or less pubescent, the lobes cut-serrate; racemes 
few-flowered, the pedicels divaricate ; tube of the calyx cylindrical, very broad 
and short, slightly contracted at the mouth; the segments reflexed ; stamens 
and style slightly included; style undivided, hairy at base; fruit prickly or 
rarely unarmed.—Flora, N. A. 546. Bigelow, 91. D C., Ill, 479. 
Woods and hill-sides from Hudson’s Bay to Kentucky, and 
west to the Rocky Mountains, and near the sources of the Platte. 
—F. 
Sp. 2. THe Common Witp Gooszperry. R. hirtéllum. Michaux. 
Stems prickly or naked ; sub-axillary spines usually solitary and very short ; 
leaves roundish, cordate, 3—5-lobed, toothed, pubescent beneath; peduncles 
very short, deflexed, 1—3-flowered ; calyx-tube bell-shaped, smooth, hairy at 
the throat withm ; the segments twice the length of the petals, nearly equalling 
the stamens and 2-cleft hairy style ; fruit smooth.— Fora, N. A., R. tuflorum, 
Bigelow, 90. 
The recent shoots are green, shining, brownish or ashen, 
afterwards, when older, dark purple, the cuticle peeling off and 
leaving the stem unarmed. Usually 3 prickles are found at the 
base of each leaf. 
