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85. GROSSULARIEZ. 
Currants and gooseberries are so familiarly known, that every one may form a correct 
idea of this order, which contains only species of the genus Ribes, to which both 
of the above belong. The species are found in the temperate and cold parts both of 
the Old and New World, as well in the northern as in the southern hemisphere. We 
therefore find them, as we have done species of so many other genera of a similar 
distribution, every where along the Himalayas; though as yet only three species have 
been discovered. Of these, R. glaciale, found on Gossainthan, as well as on Choor 
and Manma, at elevations of from 8,000 to 10,000 feet, is nearly allied to R. petreum. 
R. acuminatum is found in similar situations, as well as eastwards in Kemaon and - 
Nepal. The gooseberry, or a species so nearly allied to it, as to have been referred to 
it by Dr. Wallich, but which I have called Ribes Himalensis, is found on Buddrinath ; 
near the almost inaccessible sources of the Ganges ; and in Kunawur, as mentioned at 
_ p. 32and35. The Himalayan species secrete acid and jelly, but less saccharine matter 
than their European congeners, owing partly to want of culture, and partly to the short- 
ness of the season between their flowering and the accession of the rains ; also, perhaps, 
to distinctness of speaies ; but the European kinds would succeed at elevations, where 
little snow falls in winter, and where, from the earlier development of vegetation, suffi- 
cient time would be gained for the ripening of the fruit. 
86. SAXIFRAGEZ. 
The Savrifragee, as constituted by De Candolle, contain several tribes, which by 
other botanists are considered as distinct orders; such as Cunoniacee, Baueracee, 
Escallonee, Hydrangea, and Savxifragee. Of these, Hydrangea, though polypetalous, 
are sometimes, from the resemblance in habit to Viburnum, referred to Caprifoliacee. 
Adamia (P1. As. Rar. t. 213) is a genus peculiar to Nepal; but Hydrangea, found all 
along these mountains, is also so in North America, China, and Japan, as well as in 
the mountains of Peru. J. altissima (Tent. Fl. Nep. t. 50), climbs lofty trees, and 
is common, as well as H. vestita (asper, Don), which is trigynous. | 
Of Escalloniee, Itea is found in the Khassia mountains, and as far north as the Deyra 
Doon. JZ. macrophylla, found in the former situation, was first deseribed by Dr. Wallich 
in the Fora Indica, but is referred in his Catalogue to Kurrimia, probably from their 
being some plant like it in habit ; as Mr. Arnott mentions that it clearly resembles 
T. chinensis. (Hook and Arnott in Bot. of Beechey’s Voyage, p. 189, t. 39.) In the 
Deyra 
from Bokhara and Yarkund, probably the Kermes produced in Russia and Tatary. A kind is also produced 
(v. p. 85) on the roots of a plant in the marshes near Herat ; as is the scarlet grain of Poland, Coccus polonicus, 
on the roots of Scleranthus perennis in the north-east of Europe. The Kermes, or Coccus Ilicis, produced on the 
Quercus Ilex and Quercus cocciferus, growing in the south of Europe, has yielded a crimson dye from the 
indicates that the Asiatics were acquainted with its true 
earliest ages. The Persian name, kirm, a worm, ae 
when in Europe it was thought to be the seed of a plant. The French, with their characteristic quick- 
ineal into Algiers, with other tropical products. 
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nature, 
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