Note E153 — 34.

"Goose beries." Dr. R. A. Prior says: "From the Flemish kroes or kruys berie, Swed. krusbär, a word that bears the two meanings of 'cross-' and 'frizzle-berry,' but was given to this fruit with the first meaning, in reference to its triple spine, which not unfrequently presents the form of a cross. This equivocal word was misunderstood and taken in its other sense of 'frizzle-berry,' and translated into German and herbalist Latin as 'kraüsel-beere,' and 'uva crispa.' The Fr. groseille and Span. grosella are corruptions of Ger. kraüsel."