1557 



RIBES* specidsum. 

 Shewy Gooseberry. 



PENTANDRTA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Grossulaces D. C. (Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 54.) 



RIBES.— Supra, vol. 2. fol. 125. 



*Gitossui,ARiJ£. Gooseberries. 

 R. speciosum ; ramis setosis, aculeis rigidis tripartitis rectis, foliis glabris tri- 



lobis crenato-incisis basi cuneatis integris, racemis nutantibus 2-3-floris 



ramis sublongioribus, floribus tubulosis 4-5-meris, staminibus longe exsertis, 



calycibus partitis, baccis hispidis. 

 R. speciosum. Pursh. ft. am. sept. 2. 731. suppl. De Cand. prodr. 3. 



478. D. Don in British fl. gard. 149. 

 R. stamineum. Smith in Rees' cycl. in loc. De Cand. I. c. 

 R. fuchsioides. Berland. mem. soc. phys. genev. 3. t. 3. 



A hardy shrub, native of California, and apparently of 

 Mexico. It was raised from seeds brought from Monterey 

 by Mr. Collie, in 1828 ; and from the Garden of Mr. Lambert 

 our specimens were sent last May. Like all other Goose- 

 berries, it is propagated most readily from cuttings. 



If this cannot be said to be so beautiful a shrub as 

 Ribes sanguineum, the Scarlet Currant, it is at least by far 

 the most elegant of Gooseberries. In brilliancy of colour- 

 ing it is perhaps superior to that species, and in abundance 

 of flowering it is nearly its equal : but it has the demerit, 

 common to all Gooseberries, of hiding its flowers by its 

 leaves. 



By the late Sir James Smith this plant was called Ribes 

 stamineum, — that learned Botanist not having discovered, in 

 1819, that it had been described in a well-known English 



* See fol. 1237. 

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