106 GROSSULACE;. [Ribes. 



and serrated, white and downy beneath ; flowers corymbose. 

 Br.Fl 1. p. 22-2. E. Fl. v. ii. p. 367. E. Bot. t. 1658. Oa- 

 tcegus Aria, Linn. 



Mountainous woods and cliffs, chiefly in limestone countries. Plen- 

 tiful in several places in Cunnamara, and about the Lakes of Killarney, 

 in crevices of limestone rocks. Fl. June. F? . Leaves often more or 

 less cut at the margin. Fruit red. 



# # Leaves pinnate. 



4. P. aucuparia, Gaertn. Quicken-tree or Mountain Ash. 

 Leaves pinnate; leaflets uniform, serrated, smooth; flowers 

 Corymbose; styles about three; fruit globular. Br. Fl. \.p. 222. 

 E. Fl. v. ii. p. 364. Sorbus aucuparia, E. Bot. t. 3S7. 



Woods and rocks in mountainous situations, frequent. Fl. May, 

 June. T? . A handsome tree in plantations and hedge-rows, especially 

 when the fruit is ripe. Corymbs many -flowered. Flowers white. 

 Pomes resembling berries, scarlet. 



ORD. 29. GROSSULACE^E. DC. Currant Family. 



Tube of the calyx adnate with the ovary, its limb 4 5-parted, 

 regular, often coloured. Petals 4 or 5, inserted into the mouth 

 of the calyx, and alternating with its lobes, equal. Stamens 

 4 5, inserted alternately with the petals. Ovary 1 -celled, with 

 2 opposite, parietal placentas : ovules numerous: style single, 

 2 3 4-cleft. Fruit baccate, subglobose, crowned with the 

 withered flower. Seeds many, suspended among the pulp by 

 filiform stalks. Testa gelatinous, adhering firmly to the albu- 

 men, which is horny. Embryo minute, "excentrical, with the 

 radicle next the hilum. Shrubs of temperate climates, often spi- 

 nous. Leaves alternate, lobed, with a plaited vernation. Flowers 

 greenish'white t yellow or red, solitary or in racemes. 



1. RIBES. Linn. Currant and Gooseberry. 



Calyx 5-cleft, bearing the petals and the stamens. Style divided. 

 Berry 1-celled, many-seeded. Name, Ribes, a word applied 

 by the Arabic Physicians to a species of JRJmbarb, JRheum 

 Ribes. Our older Botanists believed that it was our Goose- 

 berry ; and hence Bauhin called that plant Ribes acidum. 



Pentandria. Monogynia. 



HC Without prickles. 



1. R. rubrum, Linn. Common Currant. No prickles; 

 clusters smooth, pendulous ; flowers but slightly concave ; petals 

 inversely heart-shaped. Br. Fl. 1. p. 107. E. Fl. v. i.p. 330. 

 E. Bot. t. 1289. 



