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Europe. Height 4ft. Flowers yellowish green ; April and May. Fruit 

 dark purple; ripe in June and July. 



Varieties. 



R. 11. Z bacca flavlda Hort. Supposed to be a hybrid between the 

 black and white cuirants, and to have been originated near Bath., 

 previously to 1827, The fruit is of a dingy greenish yellow ; but 

 the plant has the habit and general appearance of R. nigrum. 

 R. n. 3 hdcca viridi Hort. has the fruit green when ripe. This variety 

 is common in Russia in a wild state. Hort. Soc. Garden. 

 Sk R. n. ifoliis variegdtis Vilm. Leaves variegated with yellow streaks. 

 Garden Vaiieties. Six of these are enumerated in the Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Fruit Catalogue of 1831, the best of which are the black Naples and 

 the large black. The fruit of the former variety is very large and handsome, 

 more especially when the plant is grown in deep rich soil, and in a situation 

 rather shady and moist. 



The leaves, fruit, and the entire plant are powerfully diuretic. The treat- 

 ment of the black currant, as a fruit tree, will be found in the EncyclopcBdia 

 of Gardening, and in the Suburban Horticulturist. 



ji 28. R. (n.) tri'ste Pall. The s-dd-coloui-ed, or dark-blossomed, black 



Currant. 



Identification. Pall. Nov. Act. Pet., 10. p. 378. ; Don's MUl., 3. p. 189. 



Siinoiiyme. R. altaicura Lodd. Cat. 



Engraving. Out fig. 869. from a living specimen. 



Spec. Char., <^c. Leaves 5-lobed. Branches simple, 

 twiggy, bearing leaves and racemes of flowers at 

 the apex. Racemes pendulous, both when in 

 flower and in fruit. Corollas flattish, of a dull 

 brownish red on the outside, and yellowish 

 inside. Petals revolute. Berries small, black, 

 insipid. Root creeping. (Do7i's Mill.) A low 

 shrub. Siberia, on the Mongol Mountains. 

 Height 2 ft. to 3 ft. Inti-oduced in 1820. Flow- 

 ers brownish red qpd yellow ; April and May 

 Fruit black ; ripe in July 

 colour of the flowers. 



Sk 29. R. (n.) flo'ridum L'Herit. 



Identification. L'Herit. Stirp., 1. p. 4. ; Ph. Sept., 1. p. 1C4. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. ISO. 



Si/nont/mes. R. nigrum 2. Lin. Sp. 291. ; R. pennsylvanicum Lam. Diet. 3. p. 49. ; N. recur. 



vatum Michi. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1. p. 109., according to Torrey ; Ilibisium nigrum, &c.. Bill. Lltli. 



2. t. 244. f. 31.=;. 

 Engravings. Schmidt Baum., t. 92. ; and out fig. 870. 



Spec. Char., <^c. Leaves full of resinous glands, 

 ! 3 or 5-lobed, cordate, doubly serrated. Ra- 

 cemes pendulous, pubescent. Bracteas linear, 



longer than the pedicels. Calyx tubularly 



campanulate, glabrous : with the segments ob- 

 tuse, and at length reflexed. Germens and 

 , black berries oval-globose, glabrous. This is 



in many respects nearly allied to R. nigrum; 



but its more copious and denser flowers, and 



especially their long bracteas, and more tubular 



calyxes, will always distinguish it : the solitary 



pedicel, too, at the base of the flowers, is want- 

 ing in this species. Petals oblong, rather erose 



at the apex ; greenish yellow. (Don's Mill.) 



A large shrub. Canada to Virginia, in hedges 



and woods. Height 4ft. to 6 ft. Introduced 



in 1729. Flowers pale yellow; April and 



May, Fruit black ; ripe in July. 



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869. R. (n.) tiiste. 



Differs from R. nigrum only in the dull brown 

 The flowery black Currant. 



870. R. (n.) fltSridum. 



