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RlBES RESINOSUM. CLAMMY CiJRRANT. 



Clafs and Order. 

 Pentandria Monocynia. 



Generic Characler. 



Tctala 5, ?\ flamina calyci inferta. Stylus bifidus. Bacca poly- 

 fperma, iniera. 



Specific Qoaratler and Synonym. 



RI3ES rcfinofum ; pilofo glandulofum racemis ereQis, calycibus 

 planiufcvilis trinerviis, bratteis lingulatis pedicello longiori- 

 bus, foliis fubquinquelobis obtufis crenatis. 



RIBES refmofum; inermc, omnibus partibus pilis refinofo-glandu- 

 lofis ffiftum, foliis 3 — 5-lobatis iubrotundis, racemis erectis, 

 calycibus planiufculis, p.. talis obtufe rhomboideis, brafieis 

 linca vibus pedicello !ongioribttS> baccis hirfutis. Purj/j FL 

 Dor.- Am. p. 163. inedit. 



The whole plant is covered with glandular hairs which exude 

 a clammy juice. The calyx is large, fpreading, and rounded- 

 three times larger than the yellow flefhy petals. The braclcs, 

 which continue after the flowers, fall off are tongue-fhaped, 

 hollowed, and very glandular. The /eaves are five-lobed, but 

 the lower lobes are lefs defined, and frequently obfolete. The 

 broad ftipules or wings on the fboiftalk- leen in the figure, ge- 

 nerally difappear before the leaf is expanded. 



It has been cultivated eight or nine years at MefiTrs. Fraser's* 

 of Sloane-Square, whofe father firft difcovered it in the moun- 

 tains of North-America; it has been alfo fome years in the 

 garden of George Anderson, Efq, by whom we have been 

 repeatedly favoured with fpecimens; but no where has it pro- 

 duced fruit : indeed from the fmallnefs of the get men and the 

 fphacelated appearance of the ftigmas we fufpect this fpecies to 

 be dioecious, and that we have only the male plant. Flower* 

 in April and May. Propagated by cuttings. 



