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RIBES 



flower not toothed and pointed, the style smooth, and the flowers deeper in 

 colour. Introduced from Western N. America in 1827. R. SP^THIANUM, 



Koekne, is the same or 

 a slight form. 



R. cereum and R. 

 inebrians are distinct 

 in the arrangement of 

 their leaves, each one 

 of which has the eighth 

 one above it directly 

 superposed ; the inter- 

 mediate ones being set 

 round 'the stem in a 

 spiral of,three circuits. 



R. CRUENTUM, 

 Greene. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 8io$.) 



A deciduous, spiny 

 shrub, 3 to 6 ft. high, 

 more in diameter ; 

 young shoots minutely 

 RIBES CEREUM. downy. Leaves round- 



ish, f to i^ ins. wide, 



three- or five-lobed, the lobes coarsely round-toothed ; nearly or quite smooth 

 on both surfaces ; stalk minutely downy, slender, to TT in. long. Flowers 

 f in. wide, solitary, rarely in pairs, on a slender stalk \ in. long, pendent. 

 Calyx \ in. long, crimson, the tube narrowly bell-shaped, smooth ; the five 

 sepals lanceolate, finally reflexed. Petals white, much shorter than the sepals ; 

 ovary covered with incipient spines. Berry red, in. across, with a hedgehog- 

 like appearance due to its covering of numerous spines, each \ to \ in. long. 



Native of California ; introduced in 1899. This interesting and remark- 

 able gooseberry has flowers extremely pretty in their contrast of crimson and 



RlBBS CRUENTUM. 



white, but they are not particularly abundant, usually one at each joint of the 

 previous year's wood. The berries are remarkable in their prickliness. It is 

 'closely allied to, and perhaps only a variety of R. amictum, but that species 

 is distinctly downy on leaf and calyx. Effective grown as a standard. 



