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Ribes nigrum L. Intermediate type. Denizen. Area 

 98765432. Range 0-250. Commonly cultivated in gardens 

 up to 350 yards, and frequently as if spontaneous in hedges 

 and by the side of streams. I have not seen either this species 

 or the following in a clearer indigenous condition. 



Ribes rubrum L. Intermediate type. Denizen. Area 

 98765432. Range 0-350. Commonly cultivated in gardens 

 up to 350 yards, and, like the preceding, frequent in hedges and 

 upon the banks of streams. 



Ribes petraeum Smith. Scottish type. Native. Montane. 

 Area 987. Range 100-500. About the lees and its branches 

 from Cronkley Scars downwards by way of Lonton, Mickleton, 

 Cotherstone, Deepdale and Rokeby to Piercebridge. In Swale- 

 dale in several places ; Stonesdale, Crackpot, Low Row, Reeth, 

 Downholme, Hudswell and Easby. In the Yore district in 

 Whitfield Gill ; and Widdale Gill ; F. A. Lees. Robson's R. 

 spicatum grew formerly in an open wood at Applegarth near 

 Richmond, but is now destroyed. 



Ribes alpinum L. Intermediate type. Native. Area 

 9 8 7.5.3 2 I. Range 0-250. Clearly indigenous in some of 

 the woods of the lower part of our western dales, especially in 

 Swaledale and the dale of Gilling. Wild up Gayle Beck near 

 Aisgill Force; F. A. Lees. Woods and hedges in several places 

 elsewhere ; Piercebridge, Thirsk, Knayton, Bagby, Inglcby 

 Greenhow, Kildale, Thormanby, Co.xwold, etc. ; but probably 

 planted in some of these stations. 



Ribes Grossularia L. Intermediate type. Denizen. Area 

 general. Range 0-300. Commonly cultivated up to 350 yards, 

 and commonly subspontancous in woods and hedge-rows 

 throughout the lower zone. The station most likely to be 

 natural in which I have seen it is in Flazcndale, where from a 

 dozen to a score bushes form a thicket at the bottom of a 

 calcareous glen, side by side with a similar thicket of Blackthorn. 

 Upon the turf beneath them Ophrys viuscifera grows, and some 



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