68 31. GROSSULARIACE^:, 



the base, with a small spur, crowded on the barren branches, 

 scattered on the flowering ones. Cymes smooth, bifid. Fl. 

 white, with red spots. Anthers red or purple. 



Frequent on rocks. (A) A. 6 8. Very plentiful on most parts of the coast 

 from Bowling and Dumbarton to Arran. 



4. S. VILLOSUM, L. Hairy -Stonecrop. Stems erect, simple, 

 3 4 in. high. Le. scattered, linear, flat above, blunt, not pro- 

 duced at the base. Fl. pale rose, with a purplish tint, loosely 

 cymose. Upper portion of the plant viscid, with glandular pube- 

 scence. 



Frequent. In wet bare places, or amongst stones on mountains. (H) A. 07. 

 Cathkin and Caropsie hills; above Helensburgh; Gourock; Cumbrae and Arran. 



2. Flowers yellow. 



5. S. ACRE, L. Wall-pepper, Biting -Stonecrop. Stem decum- 

 bent, shoots erect, 2 4 in. high. Le. imbricated, ovate, or nearly 

 globular, fleshy, produced at the base into a kind of spur. Sep. 

 very short, gibbous at the base. Pet. acute. Cyme trifid. Plant 

 glabrous, hot and biting when chewed. 



Frequent. On rocks and the gravelly sea coast, from Bowling to Arran (B) P. 

 67. 



*6. S. REFLEXUM, L. CrooJced Yellow -Stonecrop. Stems 6 8 

 in. high, decumbent, with erect branches. Le. round, subulate, 

 spurred at the base, lower ones recurved. Sep. acute, not gibbous. 

 Fl. numerous. 



" On the top of a wall, Craignethan Castle," Hopk. (E) P. 78. 



31. GROSSULARIACE.S1. 



1. RfBES. Currant, Gooseberry. 



A. Spines none. 



1. R. RUBRUM, L. Red-Currant. A well-known cultivated 

 shrub, found in woods and hedges. Le. bluntly 5-lobed. Fl. in 

 pendulous racemes. Berries red or white. 



"Avon banks, opposite Barn cluith, perfectly wild?" Pair. Sides of streams 

 and woods, Cambuslang. (I) Sh. 4 5. 



It is doubtful if any of this genus are native, although frequently found in the 

 district. Having been in cultivation for a long period, it is now difficult to deter- 

 mine the facts. 



2. E,. NlGRUM, L. Black-Currant. Readily known from the 

 former by emitting a peculiar odour when the leaves are rubbed, 

 arising from glandular dots on the under side of the leaf, Eacemes 

 pendulous, lax, few-flowered. Cal. downy, slightly glandular. 

 Berries purplish black. The wild state is found in several places 

 around, with more acute segments to the le. than in the cultivated 

 one, such as at Kittochside. 



In woods and hedges near villages. (I) Sh. 4 5. 



