334 PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Hedera. 



three-lobed, and variously cut, a little hairy, of a pleasant green 

 while young. Footstalks hairy. FL green, or pale flesh-coloured, 

 bell-shaped, on simple drooping stalks, thickened upwards, 

 mostly 2 together, from the same bud as the leaves and future 

 branches. Bracteas small, ovate, fringed, in pairs, rarely 3, a 

 little below each flower ; sometimes united into a tube at the 

 base, which Linneeus thought a mark of the Smooth-fruited 

 Gooseberry, my j3, but it is not at all constant. Segments of 

 the cabjx reflexed, often coloured. Fet. ovate. Germen gene- 

 rally hairy. .S(;?//e often scarcely cloven, sometimes double. Berry 

 elliptic-oblong, or nearly globular, green or yellowish, rough 

 with scattered hairs ; in /3 smooth j but Mr. Robson found this 

 not a permanent specific character. Cultivated varieties are of- 

 ten red or blackish. The Gooseberry is well known as a most 

 wholesome fruit, chiefly confined to cold or temperate climates, 

 neglected in Switzerland, and with difficulty raised in Italy. 

 R. redinatum of Linnseus seems a mere variety with long deflexed 

 branches, not uncommon. 



123. HEDERA. Ivy. 



Linn.Gen.lU. Juss.2\4. Fl.Br.267. Tourn.t.SSi. Lam.i. 145. 

 Gctrtn. t.26. 



Nat. Ord. HederacecE. Linn. 46. Aralice. Juss. 59. 



Col. minute, of 5 teeth, surrounding the germen. Pet. .5, 

 alternate with the calyx, oblong, widely spreading; broad- 

 est at the base. Filam. awl-shaped, erect, the length of 

 the petals, and inserted alternately with them. Antli. in- 

 cumbent, cloven at the base. Germen turbinate, sur- 

 rounded with the annular receptacle of the flower. Style 

 very short, furrowed. Stigma simple. jB^-ry globular, 

 of 1 cell. Seeds from 3 to 5, oblong, vertical, convex ex- 

 ternally, angular at the inner edge. 



Climbing evergreen shrubs, with scattered, smooth, stalked 

 leaves. Fl. in terminal bracteated umbels, or heads, pale 

 or greenish. Style sometimes cloven, or aggregate. The 

 character of Jussieu's 59th order should be so modelled 

 as to admit this genus, which he refers to his 58th, Cajpri- 

 folia. 



1. H. Helix. Common Ivy. 

 Leaves some ovate, some lobed. 



H. Helix. Linn. Sp. PL 292. WiUd.v.l.\\79. Fl. Br.267. Engl. 



Bat. V. 18. t. 1267. Curt. Land. fuse. \.t.\6. Hook. Scot. 82. 



Fl. Dan. t. 1027. Bull. Fr. t. 133. 

 H. n. 82G. Hall. Hist. V. 1.358. 



