1471 
RÍBES* inébrians. 
Intoxicating Red Currant. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Grossutace® De Cand. (Introduction to the natural system 
of Botany, p. 54.) 
RIBES.—Supra, vol. 2. fol. 125. 
§ RIBEStA. 
*Calyce tubi cylindraceo, 
R. inebrians; foliis subrotundis leviter 3-5-lobis inciso-dentatis basi trun- 
catis utrinque glandulosis, petiolis pubescentibus, pedunculis 3-5-floris 
pendulis, calycibus aggregatis tubulosis glandulosis : laciniis recurvis. 
Frutex 2-3-pedalis, ramis erecto-patentibus, inermibus, castaneis, glabris, 
v. paulo glandulosis. Folia odorem Ribis floridi spirantia, glandulis re- 
sinosis nitidis irrorata. Calyces albi, viridescentes, tubo 4 lineas longo. 
Bractee virides, oblongi, concavi, denticulati, ovario paulo longiores. 
This was sent from New York, by Messrs. Floy of that 
city, to the Horticultural Society, under the name of “ The 
Intoxicating Red Currant,” but without any account of its 
quality. We presume its berries possess some narcotic 
property, although such a circumstance has been hitherto 
unheard of in the order ; and therefore in giving it a specific 
name we have merely translated the American appellation. 
The fruit has never been produced in this country. 
It flowered for the first time in the Garden of the Horti- 
cultural Society, at Chiswick, in April last, in an open 
border, where it had been growing for three or four years 
among bushes in the common soil of the place, and proved 
to be a species hitherto undescribed. 
As a plant of ornament its merits are not great, its 
* See fol. 1237. 
