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404 EIBES KUBKUM. 



positively rejected as a na- 

 tive shrub. Possibly it may 

 be indigenous in the pro- 

 vinces of Humber, Tyne, 

 Lakes, East and West High- 

 lands; although chiefly in 

 form of petraum or spicatum, 

 if not exclusively so. 



404 Ribes petrseum. 



(Pi. Smi thianum ) . 



64 York m. west. Baker sp. 



65 n. west. Ward sp. 



66 Durham. New flo. 



67 Northumb. New flo. 



69 Westmoreland. 



70 Cumberland ! 



87 Perth west. Synie cat.f 



88 mid ! 

 90 Forfar ? 



93 Aber. north ? 



95 Elgin. Gordon sp. 



96 Easterness. Gordon sp. 

 02 Eb. south. Balfour sp. 

 04 north. " spicatum'' 

 N.B. Passes into the sylvestre 



variety of rubrum by inter- 

 mediate degrees of pubes- 

 cence, etc. See Comp. Cyb. 

 Brit, page 414. 



405 Ribes alpiimm. 



34 Glosterwest? Waring, B.G. 

 36 Hereford. Purchas flo.* 



38 Warwick ? With. arr. 



39 Stafford. Garner, "wild." 

 41 Glamorgan ? 



44 Carmarthen. Milne, t 



49 Carnarvon. Davies. 



50 Denbigh. J.E. Bowman cat. 

 52 Anglesea. Welch Bot. 



55 Leicester. Coleman flo.* 



56 Notts. Howitt flo. 



57 Derby. Purchas ms.t 



58 Chester ? Bradbury. 



59 Lane. s. F. M. Webb cat.* 



61 York s. east? "recorded." 



62 n. east. Baker cat. 



63 s. west? Dill, E.S. 



64 m. west. Tatham cat. 



65 n. west, "native." 



66 Durham. New flo.t 



67 Northumberland. New flo.t 



68 Cheviotland. New flo.t 



69 Westmoreld. Annals of K. 



70 Cumberland. Jos. Kobson. 



76 Eenfrew. Clydesdale flo.t 



77 Lanark. Kennedy cat.* 



80 Roxburgh. Brother ston.* 



81 Berwick. Brotherston.* 



83 Edinburgh. Balf. flo.* 



84 Linlithgow. Balf. flo.* 



89 Perth east. (F.B.White *). 

 92 Aber. south. Dickie G.* 

 N.B. This shrub has been 

 often planted in the gardens 

 and shrubberies of North 

 England, probably on ac- 

 count of its early leafing 

 and flowering, unshowy as 

 its flowers are. Nowhere 

 seen by myself in a truly 

 wild state. In citing the 

 reported counties here book 

 records have been resorted 

 to, with the double series of 

 marks, to indicate greater 

 (*) or less (t) suspicion 

 against the true nativity of 

 the shrub. 



406 Ribes Grossularia. 



N.B. When we attempt to trace 

 the distribution of this shrub 

 through Britain, county by 

 county, the adverse opinions 

 against its real nativity 

 greatly predominate over 

 the very few given in sup- 



