968 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART IIL. 
Genus I. 

RIMBES L. Tue Rises. Lin, Syst. Pentandria Monog#nia. 
Identification. Lin. Gen., 281.; Dec. Prod., 3. p. 477. ; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 177. 
Synonymes. Grossularia Tourn., Gertn. ; Chrysobétrya, Calobétrya, Coreésma, and Rébes Spach ; 
Groseiller, Fy. ; Johannisbeere, Ger. ; Kruisbes, Dutch; Uva Spina, Jtal.; Grossella, Span. 
Derivation. The word ‘is from the name of an acid plant mentioned by the Arabian physicians, 
which has been discovered to be the Rhéum Ribes; Grossularia is from the Latin grossulus, a 
little unripe fig. 
Description, §c. This genus consists of low deciduous shrubs, two of 
which (the common currant and gooseberry) are well known in British 
gardens, for their valuable fruits. We shall here consider all the species of 
the genus entirely in the light of ornamental shrubs, taking little notice of 
the varieties cultivated in gardens for their fruit. Many of the sorts here 
set down as species are, we have no doubt, only varieties ; but, as we are not 
able to refer these to their aboriginal forms, we have followed the usual autho- 
rities, and more especially the nomenclature adopted in the Horticultural 
Society’s Garden; a synopsis of the sorts in which, by Mr. Gordon, will be 
found at the end of this article. All the species of /?bes strike root readily from 
cuttings ; and grow freely in any soil that is tolerably dry; but, as they are 
only ligneous in a subordinate degree, and are but of a temporary duration 
under any circumstances, they require to be grown in dry beds or borders, 
and are, therefore, more fitted for scientific collections or flower-borders, 
than for general shrubberies, undug arboretums, or lawns. The most showy 
species are Ribes sanguineum and aireum, and their varieties. 2. specidsum, 
has a singular fuchsia-like appearance when in blossom; and #. multiflorum, 
though the flowers are greenish, is remarkably elegant, on account of 
the long many-flowered racemes in which they are disposed. The price, 
in the London nurseries, varies from 1s. to 2s. each; at Bollwyller, from 50 
cents to 1 franc; and at New York, from 25 cents to halfadollar. The 
varieties cultivated as fruit trees are much cheaper ; and R. specidsum, which 
is rather difficult to propagate, and some of the other species, which are new, 
and as yet rare, are dearer. 
§ i. Grossuldrie Ach. Rich. Gooseberries. 
Synonymes. Grosseiller 4 Maquereau, Fr. ; Stachelbeere Strauch, Gerv.; Kruisbes, Dutch ; Uva 
Spina, Ital.; and Grosella, Span. 
Sect. Char.,§c, Stems, in most instances, prickly. Leaves plaited. Flowers 
in racemes, 1, 2, or 3,in araceme. Calyx more or less bell-shaped. (Dec. 
Prod., iii. p. 478.) | Shrubs with prickles; and with the leaves and fruit 
more or less resembling those of the common gooseberry. 
A. Flowers greenish white. 
21. R.oxyacantuor'pes L. The Hawthorn-leaved Gooseberry. 
Identification. Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 165.; Berlandier in Mém. Soc. Phys. Gen., 3. pars 2. 
p. 43. t. 1. f. 1., not of Michaux. 
Engravings. Mém. Soc. Phys. Gen., 3. pars 2. t. 1. f. 1.; Dill. Elth., t. 139. p. 166. ; and our fig. 715. 
Spec. Char., §c. Infra-axillary prickles larger, and mostly solitary; smaller 
prickles scattered here and there. Leaves glabrous, their lobes dentate, their 
petioles villous, and a little hispid. Peduncles short, bearing 1—2 flowers. 
Berry globose, glabrous, purplish blue. A native of rocks of Canada. (Dec. 
Prod., iii. p. 478.) This shrub varies much in the number and colour of 
its prickles, and its more or less dense ramification and pubescence. The 
fruit resembles that of the common gooseberry, and is sometimes red, and 
