XXXII, GROSSULA CEH: RI‘BES. 469 
Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous; lobed or cut, plaited 
while in the bud. Flowers greenish white, yellow, or red; very rarely uni- 
sexual. There is one bractea at the base of each pedicel, which is cut more 
or less ; and two much smaller ones, called bracteoles, under each ovarium. 
— Unarmed or spiny shrubs ; natives of Europe, Asia, and North America ; 
two of which (the common currant and gooseberry) are well known in 
British gardens, for their valuable fruits. 
Many of the sorts here set down as species are, we have no doubt, only 
varieties ; but, as we are not able to refer these to their aboriginal forms, we 
have followed the usual authorities, and more especially the nomenclature 
adopted in the Horticultural Society’s Garden. All the species of Rébes 
strike root readily from cuttings ; and grow freely in any soil that is tolerably 
dry; but, as they are only ligneous in a subordinate degree, and are but of a 
temporary duration under any circumstances, they require to be grown in dug 
beds or borders, and are, therefore, more fitted for scientific collections or 
flower-borders, than for general shrubberies, undug arboretums, or lawns. 
The most showy species are Ribes sanguineum and aureum, and their varieties. 
R. specidsum has a singular fuchsia-like appearance when in blossom; and R. 
multiflorum, though the flowers are greenish, is remarkably elegant, on ac- 
count of the long many-flowered racemes in which they are disposed. 
§ i. Grossularie Ach. Rich. Gooseberries. 
Synonymes. Groseiller 4 Maquereau, Fr.; Stachelbeere Strauch, Ger.; Kruisbes, Dutch; Uva 
Spina, Ztal.; and Grosella, Span. 
Sect. Char., §c. Stems, in most instauces, prickly. Leaves plaited. Flowers 
in racemes ; 1, 2, or 3, in a raceme. Calyx more or less bell-shaped. (Dec. 
Prod., iii, p. 478.) — Shrubs with prickles; and with the leaves and fruit 
more or less resembling those of the common gooseberry. 
A. Flowers greenish white. 
a 1. R. oxyacantHér'pes L. The Hawthorn-leaved Gooseberry. 
Tdeniification. Pursh Sept., 2. p. 165.; Berlandier in Mém. Soc. Phys. Gen., 3. pars 2., not o 
‘ichaux. 
pera Mem. Soc. Phys. Gen., 3. pars 2.t.1. f.1.3 Dill. Elth., t. 189. p.166.; and our 
Spec. Char., $c. Infra-axillary prickles 
larger, and mostly solitary; smaller 
prickles scattered here and_ there. 
Leaves glabrous, their lobes dentate, 
their petioles villous, and a little hispid. 
Peduncles short, bearing 1—2 flowers. 
Berry globose, glabrous, purplish blue. 
(Dec. Prod.) A prickly shrub. Canada, 
on rocks. Height 2ft. to 3ft. In- 
troduced in 1705. Flowers greenish ; 
April. Fruit small, red and green, or 
purplish blue; ripe in August; and 
agreeable to eat. 
This shrub varies much in the number 
and colour of its prickles, and its more 
or less dense ramification and pubes- Z 
cence. The fruit resembles that of the 842. R. oxyacanthiides. 
common gooseberry. It is not common in British gardens, the R. oxye- 
canthdides of Michaux (A. lacistre Poir.) being different from it. Perhaps 
it is only one of the wild states of the common gooseberry; which varies so 
very much when in a state of culture, that it is reasonable to suppose that it 
will vary much also in a wild state. ‘ 
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