207 



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RIBES RUBRUM. 



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RED CURRANT. 



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STNONTMJ.- Ribes vuhmm,- P harm, Lond. ' 



frudu rubro. . Gerard. Emacp, 1 593. Raii Hift, p 



Ribes 

 14S5 



ulgari! 



Synop 



/. 456. 



garis acidus ruber 



Ribes fru6tu rub 



Fark, Theat, p 



J.B 



ail 



h. Hift 



II. 



97 



1561. 



GrofTul 



Ribes 



multi 



plici 



Ribe 



Helv 



live non fpinofa hortenfis rubra. ^Bauh. Fin. p. 455 



s 



me 



jR 



oribus 



planiufcu 



flip 



818 



minimis. Hal, Stirp 



Hud/on Flor. Aug. p. 99. Withering. Bot, Arrange 



243 



OC 



Rib 



m 



-4 



Red Currant, 



13 Ribes 'alburn. 



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y 



White Currant, 



Clafs Pentandria. Ord. Monogynia.. Lin. Gen. Flant. 281. 



EJf. Gen. Ch. ^ Fetala 5 et §tamina calyci inferta.. Stylus 2-j[idus» 



Bacca polyfperma, infera. 



Sp. Ch. 



nj 



1' 



R.'inerme, racemis glabris pendulis, floribus planiufculis 



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41 



S fhrub grows _iive or fix feet in height, is divided into many 

 branches, and covered with a dark brown' bark, except that of the young 



/ 



branches which is whitifh 

 veined, divided into five. , 



afli-coloured 



th 



leaves are ferrated 



colour, and ftand 



fni 



gth of 



up 



reen 



nd fometimes feven lobes, of a pale ^ 

 apering footftalks, which are about the 



leaves, and hairy towards the bafe : the br 



na 



Oval, pointed, and placed at th 



bafe 



c 



01 



th 



l6af ftalks 



are 

 md 



fters 



peduncles : the flowers grow in lateral pendulous racemi^ 

 and appear in April : the calyx is divided into five fpreading, refiexed, 

 pointed, oblong, concave, permanent fegments, which are of a yellowifii 

 green colour : the corolla is compofed of five fmall obtufe upright 

 petals, of a yellowifh colour, and ihferted in the calyx : the filaments 

 are five, tapering, ered, and inferted in the calyx : the anthers are 

 comprefTed; gaping at the. edges 



d attached at their fides to th 



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