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RÍBES* setósum. 
Bristly-stemmed Gooseberry. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. GROSSULACER. 
RIBES.— Suprà, vol. 2. fol. 125. 
R. setosum; ramis densè setosis, aculeis ineequalibus subulatis, foliis sub- 
rotundis basi cordatis pubescentibus 3-5-lobis alté crenatis, pedunculis 
bi-floris subbracteatis, calycibus tubulato-campanulatis A lacinlis lineari- 
bus obtusis patentibus petalis integerrimis duplò longioribus, baccis his- 
pidis. — Lindley in hort. trans. 7. p. 243. 
* Plants of this undescribed Ribes were presented to 
the Society by Messrs. Loddiges, with the name of the 
Missouri Gooseberry. It is a low bush, having its branches 
densely covered with sete; among which, particularly 
about the bases of the young branches, are intermixed 
many unequal, straight, subulate aculei. The leaves are 
roundish, deeply cordate, covered, as well as their stalks, 
with a minute glandular pubescence; the margin Is 3- or 
5-lobed, or angled, with numerous, nearly roundish, inci- 
sions. The flowers are white, tubular, and about half as 
long as those of R. aureum, appearing in pairs, and hanging 
in profusion from beneath the branches. Berries black, 
spherical, and hispid, with a subacid pleasant flavour, a 
little partaking of musk. 
“ This is a very desirable species; and although not 
* The Arabian physicians of the eleventh and twelfth centuries had a 
famous medicinal plant which they called Ribas. This, being described as 
bearing subacid berries, was for a long time supposed to be our Currant or 
Gooseberry ; but it is now pretty well made out, that the Arabian Ribas was 
the kind of rhubarb by moderns called Rheum Ribes. 
