1471 



IIIHES* iiirbrians. 



IntiKvicatuig Red Curnnif. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. Old. f JuossuLACE.t /)c Cand. (Introduction to the natural system 

 of Botany, p. 54.) 



RIBES.—Suprd, vol. 2.fol. \25. 



§ RlBKSIA. 



*Calyce tubi cylindracco. 



R. inebrians ; foliis subrotundis leviter 3-5-lobis inciso-dentatis basi trun- 

 catis litrinque glandulosis, petiolis piibescentibus, pediinculis 3-5-floris 

 pendulis, calycibus agp;regatis tubulosis glandulosis : laciniis recurvis. 

 Frutex l-S-pedalis, ramis erecio-patetitihus, inerntibus, castaneis,(jlabris, 



V. paulh glandulosis. Folia odorem Ribis Jioridi spirantia, ylandulis re- 



sinosis nitidis irrorata. Calyces albi, viridcscentcs, tuba 4 lineas longo. 



Bracteae virides, oblongi, concavi, denticulati, ovario paulb longiores. 



This was sent from New York, by Messrs. Floy of that 

 city, to the Horticultural Society, under the name of "The 

 Intoxicating Red Currant/' but without any account of its 

 quality. We presume its berries possess some narcotic 

 property, although such a circumstance has been hitherto 

 unheard of in the order ; and therefore in giving it a specific 

 name we have merely translated the American appellation. 

 The fruit has never been produced in this country. 



It flowered for the first time in the Garden of the Horti- 

 cultural Society, at Chiswick, in April last, in an open 

 border, where it had been growing for three or four years 

 among bushes in the common soil of the place, and proved 

 to be a species hitherto undescribed. 



As a plant of ornament its merits are not great, its 

 • Seefol. 1237. 



