XXIV. THE SWAMP GOOSEBERRY. 421 
Found in rocky places from Hudson’s Bay to Massachusetts, 
and west to Lake Superior.— FJ, 
Sp. 3. Tse Rovnp-travcp Goosezerry. BR. rotundifolium. LL. 
Stem not prickly; sub-axillary spines short, usually solitary ; leaves round- 
ish, 5-lobed, nearly glabrous, shining above; the lobes short and obtuse, in- 
cisely toothed; fruit-stalks slender, 1—2-flowered, glabrous; calyx cylindrical 
and narrow, glabrous, as well as the ovary ; the segments linear-oblong, a little 
spreading, twice the length of the tube; filaments projecting, glabrous, twice 
or thrice the length of the broadly spatulate, unguiculate petals ; anthers round- 
ish ; style deeply 2-parted, as long as the stamens, hairy below ; fruit small, 
smooth.— Fora, NN. A., 1, 547, 
Flowers in June. A shrub 3 or 4 feet high, with spreading, recurved 
branches; the spines occasionally absent. Leaves small, truncate or slightly 
cordate or often a little cuneiform at the base; the lower surface, as well as 
the short petioles, often somewhat pubescent. Fruit about the size of the black 
currant, at length purple, delicious—Flora, N. A. 
No native gooseberry promises so much as this. The intro- 
duced species often refuses to flourish in our gardens, even with 
careful cultivation. It is not perfectly adapted to our soil and 
climate. But this native one is, and if the art of cultivation 
can make as great a difference in 1t as has been made in the 
wild European gooseberry, the fruit will be the finest of the 
kind in the world. The cultivated species, on its cold, northern, 
native mountams, is small, hard, hairy and acerb. Cultivation 
points at its large, beautiful, frm, sweet, delicious fruit, as the 
triumph of art. This change has been produced by long and 
careful culture. What may not be made, by similar efforts, of 
a fruit perfectly suited to our climate, which, in its natural state, 
is pronounced delicious? 
Found in mountainous and rocky places from Massachusetts 
to the mountains of North Carolina, and west to beyond the 
Rocky Mountains. 
Sp. 4. Tue Swamp Goossserry. Jt. /acusire. Poiret. 
Young stems very prickly ; sub-axillary spines several, weak ; leaves cordate, 
3—-5-parted; the lobes deeply incised ; racemes 5—9-flowered, loose; calyx 
rotate; stamens about the length of the petals; style short, glabrous, 2-cleft; 
ovary glandular, hairy; fruit small, hispid.—Fvora, N. A. 
In mountain swamps. Flowers in June. Stems 3 or 4 feet high. Petioles 
