GOOSEBERRY. 



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flowered ; stems either smooth or prickly, and with veiy 

 short thorns. Common in all the Northern States. The 

 well known Houghton's Seedling, of the nurseries, belongs 

 to this species. 



Ri rotundifolium* — Leaves nearly smooth, rounded, with 

 very short and blunt lobes; peduncles slender, one to 

 three flowered ; fruit smooth, pleasant flavored. 



Rt lacustre. — Swamp Gooseberry. — Young stems with 

 bristly prickles and weak thorns ; leaves heart-shaped, 

 three to five-pointed, with lobes deeply cut ; fruit bristly. 

 Cold woods and swamps from New England to the West 

 and northward. 



R. gracllCi — ^Axillary spine very short; leaves on a 

 slender petiole, pubescent on both sides ; the lobes acute, 

 incised and acutely toothed ; peduncles long, one to two 

 flowered. Mountains of Tennessee ; (Chapman in Flora 

 of the Southern States.) 



There are several other species, or those described as 

 such, but as we have no cultivated varieties of them, it is 

 hardly necessary to give a full description. The following 

 are but a portion of those known : 



R. OXycanthoides. — Native of Canada and Newfound- 

 land, and to the northward. 



R. divaricatum. — Branches divaricate, bristly or naked ; 

 berries black, smooth. Native of Northwest coast of 

 America. 



R. microphyllum. — Small Leaved Gooseberry. — Native 

 of the mountains of Mexico. Flowers red. 



R. Cimeifolium. — Berry pale red, resembles the i?. Uva 

 Crupa, Native of Peru, on the Andes. 



FOREIGN SPECIES. 



R. Grossularia. ( Uva Crispa^ L.) — Leaves three to 

 five-lobed, rather villous; prickles two or three under 

 each bud ; branches otherwise smooth, spreading or erect ; 



