336 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA, Ribes, 
Fruit-stalks one-flowered, nutant. FI. Brit. E.) Flower-scales two, 
sometimes three, opposite, embracing the fruit-stalk. St. ( Flowers pen¬ 
dulous, brownish green. E.) 
Rough Gooseberry. Feaberry in Cheshire, Lancashire, and Yorkshire. 
{Berries in Scotland.) (Welsh: Grwyswdd. E.) Hedges, and on old 
buildings and church towers. Woods and hedges about Darlington, 
common. Mr. Robson. (Hamilton Woods. Mr. Hopkirk. Hook. Scot. 
Oversley Wood, Warwickshire; in hedges at a distance from any house. 
Perry. Anglesey. Welsh Bot. E.) S. April. 
(Var. 2. Berries smooth : fruit-stalks with a flower-scale of one leaf. 
E. Bot . 2057. E.)— Schmid. \~Blackw. MU—Fuchs. 187 —Trag. 977— 
Matth . 167— J. B. i. 6. 47 —Lonic. i. 43. 1 —Bod. 748 —Lob. Ic. ii. 206. 
1, Obs. 617. 2 —Ger. Em. 1324 —Park. 1560. 1. 
Flower-scale egg-shaped, embracing the fruit-stalk, generally with three 
divisions. 
(Since no permanent specific difference has been ascertained betwixt the 
smooth and rough varieties of this plant, it seems unreasonable that they 
should be longer separated. The flower-scales afford no invariable 
mark; and we have Mr. Robson's authority to state that seeds from the 
same plant will produce both rough and smooth Gooseberries. E.) 
Smooth Gooseberry. (Welsh: Grwyfonwydd. Ribes Uva-crispa. Linn. 
FI. Brit. With. Ed. 4. Hull. E.) Woods and hedges. Parker's Piece, 
Girton, Shelford, Ditton, Harston church-yard, and Triplow, Cambridge¬ 
shire. Relhan. (In Anglesey, frequently at a distance from gardens, and 
abundant on the Warren Bulkeley road in 1806, the second year after it 
was formed. Welsh Bot. E.) Road between Newport and the Light¬ 
house in the Isle of Wight, in a hedge far from any garden. 
S. April—May.* 
* (The berries of both kinds, which by cultivation vary in colour from white to yellow, 
green, red, purple, and black, and in size from the dimension of a pea to that of a walnut, 
afford a very favourite and wholesome fruit, either fresh or preserved. The seeds of Goose¬ 
berries when washed, dried, roasted, and ground, are a good substitute for coffee. The 
bright red spots which often affect the leaves, and sometimes distort the young berries, are 
occasioned by JEcidium Grossularice; “ Peridium bursting at the apex, the mouth 
generally dentate: sporidia dust-like.” Grev. Scot. Crypt. 6‘2. Cimex baccarum is often 
met with on Gooseberry bushes. Indeed few plants are more subject to the depredations of 
insects, especially from the caterpillars of Tent hrcdinidce , Payilice , and Phalenee , devouring 
both leaves and buds. The best method of checking this inconvenience is by deep digging 
around the bushes in the winter season, encircling the main stem with a band of tar, and 
hand-picking occasionally during spring and summer. The depredations of birds, especially 
of that insidious plunderer the bull-finch, (Loxia pyrrhula), upon the embryo blossoms 
while yet wrapped up in the buds, are not so readily prevented; as observed in Journ. Nat. 
“ when the cherry buds begin to come forward, they quit the gooseberry, and make tre¬ 
mendous havoc with these, and the plums next form a treat. The idea that this bird 
selects only such buds as contain the embryo of an insect, to feed on, and thus free us of a 
latent colony of caterpillars, is certainly not correct. The mischief effected by bull-finches 
is greater than commonly imagined, and the ground beneath the tree on which they have 
been feeding is commonly strewed with the shattered buds, the rejectments of their ban¬ 
quets ; and we are thus deprived of a large portion of our best fruit by this “ pick-a-bud,” 
as the gardeners call it.” These plants may be trained on espaliers to an extent of many feet, 
with improved fruit. An agreeable wine is prepared from the berries, which much resem¬ 
bles Chamnagne : and when gathered green no fruit makes a better tart than the Goose¬ 
berry. E.) 
