394 33. GROSSULARIACE.t;. 



Ascends to 100 or 200 yards, in England. 



Range of mean annual temperature 49 — 46. 



Native. Sylvestral, &c. A scarce species; but being 

 one of little use either as an ornamental shrub or for its 

 fruit, its habitats are more likely to be truly natural than 

 are those for the other species, which are so generally cul- 

 tivated in the gardens of Britain. The name " alpinum " 

 is not ver^i appropriate in this country, its localities being 

 of slight elevation, and the species unrecorded from the 

 Highland provinces. 



406. 



RiBEs Grossularia, Linn. '^ ^'^■///[^ .^Ji^ 



Area 1 2 3 4 5 i 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 * 17 (18). 



South limit in Cornwall, Dorset, Isle of Wight. 



North limit in Aberdeenshire or Ross-shire. 



Estimate of provinces 17. Estimate of counties 60. 



Latitude 50 — 58. British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Superagrariau zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Channel. 



Ascends to 350 yards, in the East Highlands. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 43. 



Denizen. Septal, &c. This is generally allowed to be 

 an alien ; but it readily becomes wild, and may be now 

 considered as fully a naturalized Briton, as are many other 

 * denizens.' I class it with the latter, rather than with the 

 aliens, very much on account of Dr. Bromfield's opinion, 

 who writes to me, with the date of December, 1845, in these 

 terms : " I firmly believe Ribes rubrum, nigrum, and Gros- 

 sularia to be all truly indigenous with us ; " that is, in the 

 Isle of Wight. Northward, however, the Flora of Moray 

 gives it as " certainly introduced." It is not recognized in 

 that of Aberdeen, nor in the Edinburgh Catalogue ; and in 



