550 330. Ribes. 50. GROSSULARIiE. PI. ex. cal. 



Ribes nigrum vulgo dictum, folio olenfe, Rail Syn. 456, 4. 

 Ribes fructu nigro, Ger.em. 1593,3; Park. 1562. 

 Quinsey berries. 



Woods and dunghills ; shrubby ; May. 



Berry black ; leaves odorous, unpleasant. — Roots in in- 

 fusion useful in eruptive fevers, and the dysentery of cattle; 

 leaves when young tinge malt spirits to resemble brandy ; 

 berries have to most a disagreeable flavour, the juice of 

 them made by boiling vi'ith a little sugar into a rob, or 

 soft extract, much used in inflammatory sore throat, or the 

 quinsey. 



&. polyandrum. Stamens more than 5, some or all of the 

 petals being changed into stamens. 



b. Grossularise. Stem prickly ; peduncles few-flowered. 



5. Kiles spinosum. Thorny currant. 

 Branches prickly ; leaves roundly lobed ; petioles hairy ; 



peduncles 1 or 2-flowered. 



Uva crispa, Ger, em. 1324, 1. 



Uva crispa, sive Grossularia sylvestris, Park. 1560. 



Ribes Grossularia, Lin. S. P. 291. 



Gooseberry. Fea berry, Cheshire, Berries, Scotland. 



Woods and hedges, also cultivated; shrubby; April. 



Stem branchy ; spines 1 to 3 together, under the petioles ; 

 leaves downy; braciece. 2 or 3 on each peduncle, fringed; 

 herry hanging, varying in colour, hairy ; hairs capitated. — 

 Berry a wholesome fruit, either raw, or dressed ; seeds have 

 been used for coffee ; juice of the fruit with sugar make a 

 sparkling wine like champagne, or a good vinegar. 



6. glalrum. Berry bald ; Iractece connate, tubular, 



Ribes uva crispa, Lin- S. P. 292, 

 Smooth gooseberries. 



Fam. XVI. .51. CUCURBlTACEiE, 



Flowers mostly unisexual ; calyx adherent to the ovary, 

 contracted above, dilated into a 5-cut limb ; corolla bell- 

 shape, on the top of the ovary, 5-lobed, withering, per- 

 sistent. Male, Stamens 3 to 5, on the contraction of the 

 ca.[yK ; fllaments often jointed; anthers 1-celled, on the tip 

 of the filament, flexuous, often in 2 pairs and the 5th soli- 

 tary; ovary abortive. Y em. St ame?is abortive; ovary ad- 

 herent; styles find stigmata many; herry 9v pepo 1 or many- 

 pelled, many-seeded, bark woody ; seeds horizontal, on th^ 



