$34 ORD. XXVIII. Pomacee. 
RIBES RUBRUM. . RED CURRANT. 
SY¥YNONYMA. Ribes rubrum.. Pharm. Lond. Ribes vulgaris 
fructu rubro. Gerard. Emac. p. 1595. Raii Hist. p. 1485. 
Synop. p. 456.  Ribes fructu rubro. Park. Theat, p. 1561. 
Ribes vulgaris acidus ruber. J. Bauh. Hist. ii.p.97. Grossularia, 
multiplici acino, sive non spinosa hortensis rubra. Bauh. Pin. 
p. 455. Ribes inerme floribus planiusculis stipulis minimis. 
Hal. Stirp. Helv. a. 818. Hudson Flor. Ang. p. 99. Wi ees: 
Bot. Arrang. p. 243. 25 
« Ribes rutilum. Red Currant. 
g@ Ribes album: White Currant. 
Class Pentandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 281. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Petala 5 et Stamina calyci inserta. Stylus 2-fidus. 
Bacca polysperma, infera. 
Sp. Ch. R. inerme, racemis glabris pendulis, floribus planiusculis. 
: ‘THIS shrub grows fiye or six feet in height, is divided into many 
branches, and Souee. with a dark brown bark, except that of the 
young branches which is whitish or ash-coloured: the leaves are 
serrated, veined, divided into five, and ‘sometimes seven lobes, 
of a pale green colour, and stand upon tapering footstalks, which 
are about the length of the leaves, and hairy towards the base: 
the bracteze are small, oval, pointed, and placed at the base of the 
leaf stalks and peduncles: the flowers grow in lateral pendulous 
racemi, or clusters, and appear in April: the calyx i is divided into 
five ae reflexed, ‘pointed, oblong, ScnONG —— 
