rssus. PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 267 



2 — 3 inches long, truncate and cordate at the base, sometimes 

 obscurely 3-lobed towards the extremity ; teeth unequal, mu- 

 cronate. Panicles or racemes dichotomous, few-flowered. 

 Berries larger than in the preceding species, pale red, 2-celled ; 

 one of the cells 2-seeded, the other, by aboi'tion, but 1 seeded. 

 Seeds subosseous, turbinate. 

 Hab. On river sides, and among hedges. In the Alleghany 

 ^Mountains. Pennsylvania to Carolina. Fur^h. 



181. RIBES. L, 



Calyx superior, campanulate, 5 -cleft. Petals aiid 

 stamens inserted upon the calyx. Style 2-cleft. Berry 

 many-seeded. Gen. pi 390. Nii 1 1. Gen. I. p. 140. 

 Juss. p. 310. Lam. III. t. CXLVI. Roem. ^ 

 Schult. Gen. 1015. Nat. Ord. Grossulari^ Z)e 

 C<i nd. Cacti Juss. Currajit and Gooseberry, 



* Stems without thorns. Ribesia. 



1. R. fioridum VHerit.: unarmed; leaves punctate 

 both sides, acutely 3-lobed, pubescent ; racemes pendulous ; 

 C3l>x tubular; bracts longer than the pedicels. W il I d. 

 Spec. I. p. 11 5G, Pursh Fl. L p. 164. Roem. (J' 

 Schult, V. p. 499. R. recurvatum M i c h. FL I. p. 1 09. 

 Pursh FL 1. c. R. pennsylvanicum Lam. Enc. 111. p. 47. 



A shrub 3 — 4 feet high ; branches smooth, recurved, covered 

 with a grayish bark. Leaves on long petioles, with 3 spread- 

 ing lobes, sprinkled on both sides with yellow resj.nous dots; 

 under surface pubescent, particularly on the veins,; petioles as 

 long as tlie leaves, membranaceous and ciliate towards the 

 base. Rarejnes 3 — 4 inches long, 1 2 — 1 6-flowei ed, retrorsely 

 tomentose-pubescent ; bracts linear. Ca^i/jc coloured, tubu- 

 lar-campanulate, about 4 lines long, half 5-cleft; segments 

 ovate-lanceolate. Petals greenish-white, lanceolate, shorter 

 than the calyx. Filaments inserted opposite the segments of 

 the calyx; anthers oblong. Style engular and sulcate, not 

 exserted ; stigma minutely bifid. Berrien ovate-globose, black. 



Hab. In woods and hedges. April— May. 



This species strongly resembles R. nigrum,, of which Mr. 

 JSTu 1 1 a II suspects it to be only a permanent variety. In the lat- 

 ter, however, the leaves are only punctate beneath, the bracts 

 are shorter than the pedicels, &c. 



2. R. albinervium Mich. : leaves short, acutely lobed, 

 smoothish ; nerves white ; racemes recurved ; berries smooth ; 

 Mich. FH.^. l\0. Pursh FLU [>, IG3. Roem.^r 

 Schult, V. p. 497. 



