140 | PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
is confined to North America, with the exception of a 3d 
_ species said to grow in Madagascar? The root is emetic 
and cathartic. — 2 
ttt} Flowers pentapetalous, superior. 
217. RIBES, L. (Currant and Gooseberry.) 
Calix superior, campanulate, 5-cleft. Petals 
and stamina inserted upon the calix. Style bi- 
| fid. Berry many-seeded. 
A genus of shrubs, with alternate lobed leaves, con- 
sisting of two natural sections. First, GrossuLARIA 
_ (Gooseberry) with simple or divided axillary thorns; pe- 
duncles few-flowered, fruit larger. Second, RisEsta 
(Currant), without axillary thorns; flowers in racemes. 
—Fruit mostly edible and subacid. 
Specises. § 1.R1pes14.—l. R. albinervium. 2. trifidum. 
_ S-rigens. 4. prostratum. 5. resinosum. 6. viscosissimum. Ph. 
7. sanguineum. 8. aureum. Flowers highly odorous in one 
of the varieties; berries larger or smaller, red, fulvous, 
and black, the latter of these colours is that which is natu- 
ral. 9.recurvatum. 10. pensylvdnicum. Apparently a per- 
manent yariety of R. nigrum—§ 11. GrossuLARIA. 
(Gooseberry.) 11, rotundifolium..12. hirtellum. 13. gracile. 
14. triflorum. 15. oxycanthoides. 16. lacustris? Axillary 
spines ge Stem very Bagi (as in Robinia ete 
leaves deeply cut, 5-lobed, smooth, segments unequally 
cleft, and toothed; racemes few-flowered, rather long and 
pendulous; berries roundish-ovoid, hairy, black.—Pubes- 
cence ferruginous, berries sour, rather insipid. Has. In 
dark and swampy forests amongst rocks, on the i 
of lake Huron, near Michilimakinak. 17. Cynosbati. 
Nearly all the species of this interesting genus are al- 
pine. In the north of Europe there are 6 species (all of 
them spontaneous in Britain;) 5 in Siberia, 2 of them in 
Dauria, 1 upon the granitic mountains of Songaria, and 2 
others also discovered by Pallas upon the loftiest summits 
of the Mongolian chain; there are 6 other species of this 
a 10 a4 the Andes of Lap Chili. 
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