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RIBES NIGRUM 



BLACK CURRANT 



SYNONYM J, 



Ribes nigrum. 



Pharm. Lofid, RIbes 



nigrum 



vulgo dldtum folio olente. y. Baiih. HiJJ. ii. p. 98. Rait HiJI, 



p, i486. Synop. p. 456. GroiTularia non fpinofa fructu^ nigro. 

 Batih. Pin. p. 455. 



Ribes 



\x€vd nigro. 



Park. 



J eat, p. 1562 



Gerard. Emac. p. 1593. Ribes inerme, olidiim, calyce oblongo, 

 petalis 



99 



ovatls. I'lall. Stirp. Helv 

 Withering. Bof, Arrang. p. 243 



n. 819. ' HudJonFlor. Ang. p. 



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Clafs Pentandria. Or a. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 281. 



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EJf. Gen. Ch. ' Petala ^ ct Jlarnina calyci inferta. 



2--fidus. 



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Bacca polyfperma, infera. 



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Sp. Ch 



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acemis pilofis, florlbus oblong 



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TH E Black Currant-tree ufually rifes fix or feven feet in height : 

 the old wood is covered with a dark brown or blackifh bark, but that 



of the younger fhoots is of a whitifh colour: the leaves are com 



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monly divided into three lobes, much veined, irregularly ferrated, of 

 deep green colour, and on the under fide befet with many yellowifh. 



the whole 



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glands, which fecrete an odoriferous fluid, impreg 

 leaf; the leaf-ftalks are fnnilarly fhaped to thofe of the red 

 the bradese, or floral leaves, are oval, fliort, and woolly : the flowers 



produced in pendent bunches, upon flender pedicles, placed alter- 



ely upon the common racemus, or pedu 



five oval fpreadingfe 



the calyx is divided 



of a pale green or yellowifh 



the corolla is compofed of five roundifli petals : the nedarium is larger 

 than that in the red currant, and the fruit or berries are black. In other 



refpeds 



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parts of frudifi 



already given of the red currant. 



a fwampy ground, atid flowers in May 



1 correfpond with the defcription 



It is a native of Britain, preferring 



The 



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