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village, 1875. One on a hedge-bank between Battisborough 

 Cross and Mothecombe, 1873. 



The above records will suffice to show the conditions under which we 

 find the ' Wild Gooseberry ' to occur. It is generally seen sparingly or 

 only smgly at any one spot. 



A convincmg proof of the readiness with which it springs up on the 

 seeds being deposited by birds, has been afforded me by a high garden 

 wall at Plympton, on wliich I have noticed no less than half-a-dozen 

 stunted little bushes. It does not seem that the seeds could have been 

 brought by anything but birds to such a situation. Here also were a 

 Currant bush, two Ha'ni.horns, a Mahonia, and a little plant of Asparagus, 

 all, I conclude, sown m the same manner. 



The flowers are honey-scented, though not very powerfully so, and are 

 very attractive to bees. 



302. R. rubrum, L. Red Currant. 



Denizen ; in woods, hedges, and other bushy spots. April, part 

 of May. Rather common. 

 c. I. Two bushes on a bank by the Torpoint and Liskeard Road, near 

 Antony, with a large bush in a neighbouring wood. Three on 

 the edge of a wood or plantation in the grounds of Antony 

 House. Two on a hedge-bank near Polbathick. 

 II. A few bushes on a hedge-bank by an orchard opposite Sunwell 

 farm-house, St. Johns, 1873. 

 D. III. Hedge between Mutley and Burleigh. A large patch, consisting 

 of perhaps thhty or forty bushes, all near together, beneath 

 old trees in Warleigh Wood, 1871. Four or five on a hedge- 

 bank near Denham Bridge. One m the Tavy Valley, a little 

 below Denham Bridge, 1875. 

 IV. Goosewell and Shalaford, Egg Buckland, on hedge-banks near 

 houses and orchards. Near Elburton village. Wood near 

 Rumple Quarry, Plym Valley. Wood at Newnham. 

 V. Near Harestone, on hedge -banks, sparingly. Near Gorlofen 

 farm-house, Brixton ; some bushes in a hedge, one m a wood. 

 Wood near Lotherton Bridge. Sparingly in Eastern Torrs 

 Wood. Bushes for four or five yards close to the stream between 

 West Sherford farm-house and Chittleburn Wood. Of speci- 

 mens from this vale Dr. Boswell says, "This is the var. h. 

 sijlvestre;'' Bot. Ex. Club Rep. 1876, 19. 

 VI. Hedge by the turnpike road and elsewhere near Ermington. Be- 

 tween Ludbrook and Ugborough. 

 In English Botany ed. iii. we have under R. rubrum two sub-species, 

 sativum and sylvestre, but I have found it impossible, by the characters 

 given, to separate Plymouth specimens between the two. 



