190 GEOSSULACE^. [Eibes. 



2. E. nigrum, L. Black Currant. Without thorns, racemes 

 few-flowered lax drooping downy with a separate flower-stalk at 

 their base, flowers globoso-campanulate, bracts much shorter than 

 the pedicels, leaves acutely lobed resinoso- punctate beneath. 

 >Sm. £. M. i. p. 333. Br.Fl.^.VoQ. E.B.t.l291. 



In low swampy or boggy woods aud thickets, and along the margins of streams ; 

 rare, but like ihe last undoubtedly indigenous. Fl. Apnl, May. Tj. 



E. Med. — In Horringford withy-bed, sparingly but certainly wild. In a wet 

 willow-thicket half way between Newchurch and Winford, sparingly. Sparingly 

 in the plantation just out of Appuldurcorabe park, at the Gudshill or North- 

 entrance lodge, possibly an escape from the lodge-garden. Very sparingly in the 

 wood at the foot of the cliff near Cook's Castle, but apparently wild. 



W. Med. — In the wet willow-ground by the stream close to Sheat farm, in con- 

 siderable plenty, but perhaps naturalized at some former time from the garden 

 there. In several parts of Bordwood lynch, sparingly, but indisputably wild. 

 In Symington copse, between Medham and Somerford, W. Cowes, with K. rubrum 

 and R. Grossularia. A few small bushes in a wood a little to the East of Rew- 

 street farm. In a wet thicket by the pond just out of Kingston on the way to 

 Shorwell, rather plentifully. 



A shrub of stouter haliit than the last, preferring wetter situations. Stem 

 unarmed, erect, from about 2 to 4 feet high, and like the last species not much 

 branched in the wild state, bark on the younger branches reddish ash-gray and 

 smooth, on the trunk and older branches rough, brownish or blackish. Leaves 

 alternate, or on the short flowering shoots subfasciculate, their under side sprinkled 

 with yellow, resinous, imbedded globules, in which the peculiar strong odour of 

 the plant resides, and which has been compared to that of Savine (??), larger and 

 of a paler green than in the last species, and more deeply and acutely lobed, 

 slightly hairy along the hedges and veins of the under surface, subquinquelol)ate, 

 the posterior lobes small and often nearly or quite obsolete, the 3 anterior lobes 

 triangular-acute, all unequally inciso-serrate, the serratures bluntish and lipped 

 with a gland. Petioles mostly about as long as the leaves, pubescent, channelled 

 and slightly decurrent at their dilated bases, near which they are usually Cringed 

 with a few distant downy cilise. Racemes simple, few-flowered, lax or drooping, 

 downy, 2 or 3 inches long, aggregate in the midst of the leaves, with for the most 

 part a solitary distinct flower-stalk at the base of each cluster. Pedicels drooping, 

 very unequal, as long as or much longer than the flowers, seldom shorter, the 

 inferior remote. Bracts solitary at the base of each pedicel, and far shorter than 

 the latter, minute, loosely clasping, more or less pointed or acuminate. Flou-ers 

 more like those of the following species in appearance, strongly scented. Calyx 

 downy, sprinkled with resinous globules, subgloboso-campanulate, obsoletely 5- 

 lobed, the summit in 5 obtuse finally reflexed or revolute segments, tinged with 

 reddish brown. Petals roundish ovate, entire, greenish or reddish, a little conui- 

 vent. Stamens erect, the length of the petals ; filaments broad, flattish ; anthers 

 pale buff, roundish elliptical, their lobes united. Style the length of the stamens, 

 eijtire or slightly cleft at the summit, seated on a glandular base ; stigma a round- 

 ish, 2-lobed, viscid gland. 



** Armed with spines. Peduncles \ — 'i flowered. 



3. R. Grossularia, L. Common Gooseberry .* Leaves rounded 

 and lobed, peduncles short hairy 1 — 3 flowered with a pair of 



« The name which this well-known and wholesome fruit bears with us is pro- 

 bably corrupted from its denomination in various languages of Teutonic origin or 

 admixture ; Kniishezic, Dutch ; Krushar, Swedish ; Kraiiselbccrc, German ; all 

 alluding to the crisped or plaited look of the leaves, aud hcuoe tlie Latin Uha 

 crispa. 



