Spreading Gooseberry

Grossularia divaricata (Dougl.) Coville & Britton
Ribes divartcaium Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc. London 7 : 515. 1830.
Ribes villosum Nutt. in T. & G. Fl. N, Am. 1 : 547. 1840. Not R. villosum Roxb. 1824.
Ribes tomeniosum K. Koch, Wochenschr. Gart. & Pfl. 2 : 138. 1859.
Ribes divaricatum glahrifiorum Koehne, Deuts. Dendr. 200. 1893.
Ribes divaricatum pubijiorumKoehne, Deuts. Dendr. 200. 1893.
Ribes divaricatum. villosum Zabel, Handb. Laubh. Deuts. Dendr. Ges. 137. 1903.
Ribes Suksdorfii Heller, Muhlenbergia 3 : 11. 1907.
Ribes divaricatum. Douglasii Jancz. M^m. Soc. Gen&ve 35 : 391. 1907.
Ribes divaricatum m.ontanum, Jancz. M^m. Soc. Geneve 35 : 391. 1907.
A much-branched shrub, 2-3.5 m. high, the branches sometimes bristly, but commonly without bristles, gray to ftrown ; nodal spines stout, 1-2 cm. long, often deflexed, sometimes wanting. Leaves thin, suborbicular or reniform -orbicular in outline, 2-6 cm. wide, mostly 5-lobed, sometimes 3-lobed, coarsely crenate-dentate, cordate to subtruncate at the base, the upper surface usually bearing some long hairs, the under side short-hairy along the veins or glabrous, the slender pubescent or glabrous petioles as long as the blades or shorter ; peduncles slender, about as long as the petioles, drooping, 2-4-flowered ; bracts ovate, much shorter than the filiform pedicels ; ovary glabrous ; hypanthium campanulate, 2-3 mm. long, greenish-purple, glabrous or sparingly villous ; sepals oblong, purplish or greenish, 2-3 times as long as the hypanthium ; petals obovate, white or purplish, less than half as long as the sepals ; stamens somewhat longer thg.n the sepals ; style villous ; berry smooth, globular, black or dark-purple, about 1 cm. in diameter.
Type locality : Northwest coast of North America. Distribution ; British Columbia to middle California.

Grossularia irrigua (Dougl.) Coville & Britton
Ribes irriguum Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc. London 7 : 516. 1830.
Ribes divaricatum irriguu-m A. Gray, Am. Nat. 10; 273. 1876.
Rtbes leucoderme Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 24 : 93. 1897.
Ribes oxyacanihoides leucoderme Jancz. M^m. Soc. Geneve 35 : 388. 1907.
A shrub 1-3 m. high, the older branches usually bristly, gray to brown, the young shoots often without bristles, pale-gray, pubescent or rarely glabrous ; nodal spines subulate, usually about 1 cm. long. Leaves thin, 3-5-lobed, coarsely incised-dentate, 3-7 cm. wide, mostly cordate at the base, nearly or quite glabrous above, more or less pubescent and minutely glandular beneath, the villous and glandular-pubescent petioles as long as the blades or shorter ; peduncles nodding, 1-3-flowered, shorter than the leaves ; bracts ciliate and glandular, about as long as the short pedicels ; ovary glabrous ; hypanthium greenish, glabrous, cylindric-campanulate, 3^ mm. long ; sepals greenish-white, 5-8 mm. long ; petals obovate, white, about half as long as the sepals ; stamens about as long as the petals; style pubescent below; berry globose, smooth, 7-13 mm. in diameter. Type locality : On the Blue Mountains, in lat. 46° 33'.
Distribution: Eastern Oregon and Washington, interior of British Columbia, Idaho, and western Montana.