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rough hills near Mildenhall, SufFolk^ and Sunday's Well and Glas- 

 keen, Ireland, 



10. S. rupestre L. {St Vincenf s-RocTi S,) ; leaves linear- 

 lanceolate flattened glaucous produced at the base, those of the 

 sterile branches closely imbricated appressed, flowers cymose, 

 segments of the calyx elliptical obtuse. E. B. t. 170. 



St. Vincent and Cheddar rocks, Somersetshire. Barmouth, Tre- 

 madock, and Ormeshead, Wales. Walls about Darlington, York- 

 shire. IjL. 6, 7. Too near we fear to the last. 



11. S. Forsteridnum Sm. (Welsh Bock S.} ; leaves lanceolate 

 flattened produced at the base, those of the sterile branches 

 spreading in many rows, flowers cymose, segments of the calyx 

 elliptical obtuse. U. B. t. 1802. 



Rocks in the spray of water-falls, Wales. Rhydoll, Cardiganshire; 

 Barmouth ; Hisvae, valley of Nant-phrancon ; Little Ormeshead. 

 Caer- Caradoc, Shropshire. 7/.. 6,7. — This seems only to differ 

 from the last by the leaves on the sterile branches spreading and 

 forming small rose-like tufts ; a character in our opinion not of 

 primary importance. 



Ord. XXXVI. GROSSULAEIACE^ De Cand. 



Calyx 4 — 5-cleft, the tube entirely or in part adnate with the 



Petals 4- 



5, small, placed at the mouth of the tube 

 5 short stamens. 



Ovary 1 -celled, with 



ovary. 



alternately with the 4 

 two opposite parietal placentas which are sometimes projected 

 nto the interior and resemble dissepiments. Ovules many. 

 Style 2 — 4-cleft. Berry crowned with the remains of the calyx. 

 Seeds suspended by long stalks among the pulp. Albumen 

 horny. — Shrubs, often spiny ^ of temperate climates^ ivith alternate 

 lobed leaves. 



1. Kibes Linn, Currant and Gooseberry. 



Petals small, scale-like. Slam, included or nearly so. (Style 

 erect, and ovary with nerve-like placentas in all the British spe- 

 cies.) — Name : — Bibes was a word applied by the Arabian phy- 

 sicians to a species of Bhubarh^ Bheum Bibes; our older Botanists 

 believed that it was our gooseberry^ and hence Bauhin called 

 that plant Bibes acidum, 



Floivers racemose or spicate. Spines none, 



1, E. rubrum L. (common or red C) ; flowers perfect, leaves 

 bluntly 5-lobed, bracteas very small, calyx nearly plane and 

 ovary glabrous, petals obtuse. 

 -E. B. t. 1289. 



a. racemes glabrous pendulous 

 /?. racemes slightly downy, efoct in flower, 

 pendulous in fruit. R. petrseum Sm, (not Wulf): E. B, 



