188 UEossULACE^. [Ribcs. 



Order XXXIII. GROSSULACEiE, DeCand. 



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

 ovary. Petals 4 — 5, small, placed at the mouth of the tube alter- 

 nately with the 4 — 5 short stamens. Ovary 1-celled, with 2 oppo- 

 site parietal placentas which are sometimes projected into the 

 interior and resemble dissepiments. Ovules many. Style 2 — 4 

 cleft. Berry crowned with the remains of the calyx. Seeds sus- 

 pended by long stalks among the pulp. Albumen homy. — Shrubs, 

 often spiny, of temperate climates, with alternate lohed leaves." — • 

 Br. Fl. 



I. RiBES, Linn. Currant. Gooseberry. 



" Petals small, scale-like. Stamens included or nearly so. 

 (Style erect, and ovary with nerve-like placentas in all the Rritish 

 species)." — Br. Fl. 



* Without spines. Flowers racemose. 



1. E. ruhrum, L. Common Bed Currant. Flowers perfect, 

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

 and ovary glabrous, petals obtuse. 



a. Racemes glabrous, pendulous, i^. iJ. t. 1289. Br. Fl. \t. 150. 



j3. sjlvestie, Mert. et Koch in Rohl. Dentschl. Fl. ii. p. 249. Wimm. el Grab. 

 Fl. Siles. i. p. 209. Fl. Dan. \i. t. 967 (from a dried specimen probably). 



y. " Bacemes slifjhtly downy, erect in flower, pendulous in fruit.'' R. rubrmn 

 Ii., Br. Fl. p. 150. R. petraum, Sm. 



In moist woods, thiciets, hedges, and by stream-sides ; very frequent. Fl. 

 April, May. i^r. July. Tj.* 



E. Med. — Not rare about Ryde, in Marina wood by Apley, and in a thicket by 

 the new road from the Doier to St. John's. About Quarr Abbey, between it and 

 Fishliourne. Lane near Sandovvn. Bordwood lynch, Parsonage lynch, and other 

 wet thickets about Newchurch, with R. nigrum. Plentiful in Knighton West 

 copse. Abundant in Horringford withy-bed. Abundant in a boggy thicket and 

 withv-bed on the western skirt of Blackpan common. Cleveland copse, Appul- 

 durcombe. 



W. Med. — Very frequent about Newport, on the road to Gatcombe. Little 

 Standen wood. In profusion in the deep hollow way by the road from Newport 

 to Shorwell, in front of Idleconibe farm ; also in a lane (Plash lane ?) a little S.W. 

 of Carisbrookc castle. In a retired lane leading up to Buccombe down (called, I 

 belieie, Cow lane) fiom nearly opposite Buccombe farm, and in almost every 

 thicket, copse and hedge about Buccombe, Shorwell and Calbourne. Swainston 

 woods. Irequent in woods near Yaimonth, and especially abundant in a copse 

 on the East hank of the Yar, called Beckett's copse, a little below Freshwater 

 mill. Symington copse, near W. C'owes, with R. nigrum and R. Grossularia. 

 'loll copse, near Gatcombe. Very abundant in Lorden c(jpse. Common about 

 Chillerton. Common in New Barn Hummet, Calbourne, and abuudant in a 



* [The localities, diagnostic characters and subsequent remarks refer to the 

 loxm 13. — the wild state of the plant. — Edrs.'] 



