SAXIFEAGACEJE. 



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Rlbes nigrum. 



the pedicel. The known species, some fifty in number, inhabit 

 temperate Europe, Asia, and America, 

 and have been grouped into a certain 

 number of sections. 



Our Red, White, and Black Currants 

 belong to the section Eibesia ; l the re- 

 ceptacle is everted, campanulate or tubu- 

 lar; their stamens have short fila- 

 ments ; and their unarmed branches 

 bear leaves folded in vernation, and 

 racemose flowers. Symphocalyx? com- 

 prising several ornamental species, has 

 the receptacle elongated and tubular, 

 stamens with included filaments, un- 

 armed branches, convolute leaves, and 

 racemose flowers. Robsonia* has larger 

 flowers, also with an elongated tube, 

 long exserted stamens, few or solitary 

 flowers, and the stems, branches, and 



fruits covered with prickles. Finally, our Gooseberries (Groseillc 

 a Maquereau) form the type of the section Gros- 

 sularia* also with solitary or few flowers, but with 

 unarmed fruits, and possessing two kinds of prickles 

 elsewhere ; one kind is scattered over the branches, 

 the other developed in definite numbers and some 

 regularity at the pulvinus of the petiole. Bides 

 may in fine be defined as comprising Saxifragacece 

 with a fleshy pulpy fruit. Half-a-hundred species 

 are known, 3 natives of Europe, Asia, Temperate F 

 Africa and America, and Andine South America. Fruit. 



Fig. 441. 



Inflorescence. 



Eibes Grossularia. 



1 Bebx., loc. cit., t. 2. — DC, Prodr., sect. iii. 

 — CeropJiyllum Spach, Suit, a Buffon, vi. 152. — 

 Coreosma Spach, loc. cit., 154. — Botrycarpum 

 A. Kick., Elena., ii. 487 (ed. 4, ii. 359). — Spach, 

 loc. cit., 158. — Calobotrya Spach, in Ann. Sc. 

 Nat., ser. 2, iv. 21. — Eebis Spach, loc. cit., 26. 



2 Berl., loc. cit., t. 2. — DC, Prodr., sect. iv. — 

 Siphocalyx B. H., Gen., 655. — Chrysobotrya 

 Spach, Suit, a Buffon, vi. 148. 



3 Beel., in Mem. Soc. Gen., iii. t. 1, fig. 1. — 

 DC, Prodr., sect. i. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, vi. 

 180. — Endl., Gen., n. 4683. 



4 A. Rich, loc. cit. — Berl., loc. cit., t. 1, fig. 

 6. — DC, Prodr., sect. ii. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, 

 vi. 172. 



5 Twice as many have been described. R. & 

 Pay., Fl. Per., t. 232, 233.— Hook., Ft. Bor.- 

 Amer., t. 76. — Cambess., in Jacquem. Yoy. Bot., 



