PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Ribes. 961 



vered and described by Mr. Robson. He had the first tree from 

 the neighbourhood of Richmond, Yorkshire, and afterwards 

 found it by the Tees, between Piersbridge and Gainford, in the 

 county of Durham. S. April, May. 



Obs. Its floral-leaves being shorter than the flowers, will 

 prevent its being taken for the R. alpinum. 



R. Bunches hairy : flowers oblong. ni'grum. 



Wale 



fruit—Wood* 



-7. B. ii. ( 



* 



Buds glandular. FloralJea<ves woolly, and as long as the little 

 fruit-stalks. Flowers woolly. Leaf- ' " 1% * " ' 



._ nn. Flowers turban-shaped. Calyx seg- 

 ments often of a rich brown red colour. Stamens sometimes more 

 than 5, and then there are fewer petals ; so that when there are 

 10 stamens there are no petals. This change of the petals into 

 stamens, is just the reverse of the process by which single flowers 

 are known to become double, but it is the only fact of the kind 

 that has occurred to my observation. 



Sauinancv Berries. Black Currants. Wet hedo-es and banks of 





Mr* Woodward.] S. May 



With p 



R 



ries hairy. 



Walc.-Kniph. 1. 



Flower-scales 2, sometimes 3, opposite, embracing the fruit- 

 stalk. Stokes. If the flower-scales will not distinguish this 

 species from the R. Uva-crispa, the roughness or smoothness of 

 the berries will hardlv do it. for Mr. Robson assures me that 



gooseberries 



produ 



Rough Gooseberry. Feaberry in Cheshire, Lancashire, and 

 Yorkshire. Hedges. Walc. — [And on old buildings and 

 church towers. St. — Woods and hedges about Darlington. corn- 



Mr. Robson.] 



S. Apr 



. The berries have a very peculiar flavour which many people dis- 

 * l ke; but their juice is frequently boiled down into an extract, with the 

 addition of a small proportion of sugar ; in this state it is called rob ; and 

 j* much used in sore throats, but chiefly in those of the inflammatory 

 kind. Some people put them into brandy, for the same purpose that 

 other people use black cherries. The tender leaves tinge common spirits 



*° as to resemble brandy. An infusion of the young roots is useful in 

 severs of the eruptive kind ; and in the dysenteric fevers of cattle. Goats 

 a fid horses eat the leaves, Linn. — A horse refused it. St, — All the soc- 

 les are eaten by the Pbalana grouuiana* 



