2l8 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. fBull. 



Rare. Roadside fence-row, Norwalk (Eames & C. C. 

 Godfrey). May. Probably introduced from the West. 



Ribes rotundifolium Michx. (round-leaved). 

 Wild Gooseberry. 



Rare. Rocky woods : Meriden (W. H. Patton), Southing- 

 ton and Salisbury (Bissell). May — July. 



Ribes oxyacanthoides L. (Hawthorn-like). 

 Northern, Smooth or Wild Gooseberry. 



Occasional. Rocky woods and thickets, roadsides and 

 swamps. May. 



Parent of some forms well known in cultivation. 



Ribes Grossularia L. (grossulus, a small unripe fig). 

 Ribes Uva-crispa L. 

 Garden, Common or European Gooseberry. Teaberry. 



Rare. Escaped from cultivation to roadsides, fence-rows 

 and waste places : Stonington and Groton (Graves), Old Lyme 

 (Bissell), Southington (Andrews & Bissell), Orange, Strat- 

 ford and Fairfield (Eames), New Milford (Eames & E. H. 

 Austin). Late April — May ; fruit July. Native of Europe. 

 Cultivated in many kitchen gardens for its fruit, which is 

 used for tarts and jam, or in its choicer varieties for its fine 

 flavor uncooked. 



Ribes americanum Mill. 

 Ribes floridum L'Her. 

 Wild Black, Black or Flowering Currant. Quinsy-berry. 



Occasional or frequent. Native in moist woods or thickets 

 except in the southern part of the state, where it occurs as 

 an escape from cultivation in fence-rows, roadsides and waste 

 places. May — mid- June ; fruit mid- July — Aug. 



The fruit is edible but rather insipid. 



Ribes nigrum L. (black). 



Garden or European Black Currant. 



Rare. Bethany, escaped from cultivation to waste ground 

 (Eames). May — June. Fugitive from Europe. 



Ribes lacustre (Pers.) Poir. (of lakes or ponds). 

 Swamp Black Currant. Swamp Gooseberry. 



Rare. Meriden, at Lamentation Mt. (G. H. Cornwall, 



