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Shrubs, with erect ascending or trailing branches, the nodes armed with simple or 3-forked spines, rarely spineless. Racemes 1-few-flowered. Pedicels not jointed. Hypan-thium evident. Fruit not disarticulating from the pedicel. [Ancient name of the gooseberry.]
About 55 species, natives of the north temperate zone. Besides the following, some 30 others occur in the western states. Type species: Ribes Grossularia L.
1. | G. Cynosbati. | |
Ovary glabrous, pubescent, or with stalked glands. | ||
Flowers white; filaments long. | 2. | G. missouriensis. |
Stamens equalling the petals. | ||
Calyx-tube (hypanthium) tubular. | 3. | G. setosa. |
Calyx-tube (hypanthium) campanulate. | 4. | G. oxyacanthoides. |
Stamens twice as long as the petals or longer. | ||
Ovary villous. | 5. | G. reclinata. |
Ovary glabrous or with some stalked glands. | ||
Calyx-lobes twice as long as the tube. | 6. | G. rotundifolia. |
Calyx-lobes about as long as the tube. | 7. | G. hirtella. |
Fig. 2205
Ribes Cynosbati L. Sp. Pl. 202. 1753.
Grossularia Cynosbati Mill. Gard. Dict. Ed. 8, No. 5.
1768. Ribes Cynosbati glabratum Fernald, Rhodora 7: 156.
1905.
Nodal spines slender, solitary or sometimes 2-3 together, erect or spreading, 3"-6" long, or often wanting. Prickles of the branches few and weak or none; petioles 6"-18" long, slender, generally pubescent; leaflets nearly orbicular, 1'-2' broad, pubescent, at least when young, truncate or cordate at the base, deeply 3-5-lobed, the lobes crenate-dentate or incised; peduncles and pedicels slender; flowers 1-3, green, 3"-4" long; calyx-lobes oblong, shorter than the ovoid tube; stamens not exserted; berry 4"-6" in diameter, with few or many subulate prickles.
In rocky woods, New Brunswick, south, especially along the Alleghanies to North Carolina, west to Manitoba, Alabama and Missouri. Prickly wild-gooseberry. Dog-bramble. April-June.
 
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