38 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



(rarely 4), small. Stamens 5, very rarely 4 or 6. Fruit a 1-celled 

 berry, many-seeded, or few-seeded by abortion. 

 The only genus of the order. 



The name of this genus is that of an acid plant, mentioned by the Arabian physi. 

 cians, which has been thought to be the Ultima Jlibes of Botanists. 



Section I.— GPOSSULAPIA. Richard. 



Stems generally spiny. Peduncles short, 1-, 2-, or (more rarely) 

 3-flowered. Calyx more or less carnpanulate. Young leaves 

 plicate. 



SPECIES I.-RIBES GROSSULARIA. Lirm. 

 Plate DXVIII. 

 R. Uva-crispa, Linn. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. G34. 



Branches with 1 to 3 strong spines at the base of the short 

 lateral branchlets or fascicles of leaves. Leaves roundish, 3- to 5- 

 cleft, Avith the segments rounded at the apes and cut. Peduncles 

 from the fascicles of leaves, short, 1- or 2-flowered, drooping, with 

 1 to 3 small bracts about the middle. Calyx-tube campanulate, 

 hairy below ; calyx-segments reflexed, ovate. Petals small, erect, 

 ovate. 



Var. a, glandulosum. 



E. Grossularia, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1292. 



Fruit clothed with glandular hairs. Leaves glabrous and 

 shining above. 



Var. 3, Uca-crisjja. 



R. Uva-crispa, Linn. Sin. Eng. Bot. No. 2057. 



Fruit when mature smooth. Leaves pubescent, smaller and 

 less shining than in var. a. 



In woods, thickets, and hedgerows, and by the sides of streams. 

 Not uncommon, and generally distributed, but probably the pro- 

 duce of seeds of the cultivated gooseberry in many of its localities. 

 The late Dr. Bromfield considered it certainly indigenous in the 

 Isle of Wight. 



England, [Scotland, Ireland.] Shrub. Spring. 



A bushy shrub 2 to 4 feet high, with very numerous stout 

 spreading branches, with ash-coloured bark, furnished with 1, 2, or 

 3 spines under each leaf-bud. Lateral leaf-buds developing into 

 extremely short branches, so that the leaves appear to be in fascicles. 



