Pl.cx,caL 50. GROSSULARIiE. 330. Ribes. 549 



Ribes vulgaris fructu rubro, Rail Syn. 456, 1 ; Ger. em. 1593, 1. 

 Ribes fructu rubro, Park. 1561. 

 Ribes rubrum, Lin. S. P. 290. 

 Common currant. Garnet berries. 



Woods and sides of rivers, also cultivated; shrubby; 

 May. 



Branches bald; leaves slightly downy; racemes simple; 

 hractecB ovate, very short ; lerry red, when cultivated some- 

 times white, acid. — Berries an agreeable desert ; juice of 

 the berries a pleasant acid, with sugar make a fine wine. 



&. dulce. Fruit sweet. 



Ribes vulgaris fructu dulci, Raii Syn. 456, 1 •• 

 Sweet currants. 



y. parvum. Fruit small. 



Ribes ffuctu parvo, DiUen in Raii Syn. 436,3. 



2. Ribes alpinum. Alpine currant. 

 Stem upright, unarmed ; leaves shining beneath ; racemes 



upright ; bractece longer than the flowers. 



Ribes alpinus dulcis, Raii Syn. 456, 2. 

 Ribes alpinum, Lin. S. P. 291. 

 Sweet mountain currants. 



Woods and hedges ; shrubby ; April and May. 

 Leaves 3-lobed ; racemes upright ; Jloivers yellowish 

 green ; bractece lanceolate ; beiry elliptical, mucilaginous. 



iS. dioicum. Plants dioicous. 



3. Ribes petrceum. Rock currant. 

 Stem upright, unarmed; leaves acutely lobed,cut, toothed; 



racemes rather hairy, inprif^ht; flowers flattlsli ; petals blunt; 

 bractece shorter than the flowers. 



Ribes petraeum, Wolff, in Jac. Misc. 2, 36. 



Mountains; shrubby; May. 



Leaves .5-lobed, nappy beneath ; bractece ovate ; peclicells 

 short ; racemes when in fruit pendulous ; berry globular. 



&. spicatum. Flowers rather spiked ; spike when in fruit 

 upright* 



Rifoes spicatum, Robson Lin. Trans. 3, 240. 



4. Ribes nigrum. Black currant. 



Stem upright, unarmed ; leaves with glandular dots be- 

 neath ; racemes weak, hairy, hanging down, simple at bot- 

 tom; flowers bellshape; bractece shorter than the pedicelL 



