No. 884. 
RIBES LACUSTRIS. 
Class. Order. : 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
This is a native of North America, grow- 
ing in swamps on the mountains from 
Canada to Virginia. It is a low bushy 
shrub, and fiowers with us in the month of 
May, but has not yet produced ripe fruit : 
this, according to Pursh, is amber coloured 
or brown. 
It is perfectly hardy, and may be increased 
by łayers, which will grow in any good soil. 
