476 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stipular prickles twin. 
Leaves with a disk shorter than the petiole, 
and wedge-shaped, perfectly glabrous, and 
parted into 3 lobes which are dentate. 
Flowers upon long pedicels, in long upright 
racemes. Bracteas the length of the flowers. 
Sepals rounded, yellowish. Petals small, 
roundish. Berry ovate or globose, red. 
(Dec. Prod.) A spiny shrub. Dahuria and 
Siberia,in rocky places. Height 4 ft. to 5 ft. 
Introduced in 1781. Flowers yellowish 
green; May and June. Fruit ovate, red; 
ripe in August. 
A very distinct sort, easily known by its 
cuneated leaves and yellowish flowers. In 
Messrs. Loddiges’s collection there is a fasti- € 
giate-growing variety. 
% 17 R. Lacu’stRE Poir, The lake-side 
Currant-hhe Gooseberry. 
Identification. Poir. Encycl. Supp!., 2. p. 856. ; Dec. Prod., 3. p. 478.; Don’s Mill., 3, p. 178 
Synonyme. ?R. oxyacanthdldes Michxr. Flor. Bor. Amer. 1. p. 111. 
mgraving. Our fig. 859. from a plant in the Horticultural Society’s Garden. 
Spec. Char., §c. Infra-axillary prickles ma- 
nifold; the stem hispid with minute 
prickles. Leaves lobed beyond the middle ; 
glabrous beneath, rather pilose above. 
Petioles villous. Peduncles ? upright, 
Preflexed, bearing 2—3 flowers upon 
hispid pedicels. Flowers small, yellowish 
green. Germen hispid. (Dec. Prod.) A 
very prickly shrub. Canada and Virginia, 
in moist places. Height 4ft. to 5 ft. In- 
troduced in 1812, Flowers small, yellow- 
ish ; April and May. Fruit purplish black, 
about the size of the common black cur- 
rent; ripe in August. 
Variely. 
a R. lL 2 echindtum; R. echinatum 
Dougl. MSS., and Arb, Brit. Ist 
edit. p. 992.; R.armatum Hort. ; 859. R.lactstre. 
has the stems prostrate, while those of the species are upright and 
rather slender. 
The flowers are those of the currant, and the prickly stems those of the 
gooseberry. The fruit is about the size of black currants, in pendulous racemes, 
purplish black, shining, clothed with hairs, and unpleasant to the taste. The 
plant forms rather a spreading trailing bush, and is therefore more adapted 
for spreading over rockwork or stones, than for standing erect by itself. Horti- 
cultural Society’s Garden. 
858. R. Diac&ntha. 
§ iii. Ribésia Dec. Currants. 
Synonymes. Ribes sp. Lin. and others; Calobétrya, Coreosma, and Rébis Spach; Groseilles en 
Grappes, or Groseillier commun, Fr.; Johannisbeere, Ger. ; Bessenboom, Dutch ; Ribes, Ital. 
Sect. Char, Shrubs unarmed. Racemes, for the most part, many-flowered. 
Leaves plicate. Calyx campanulate or cylindrical. (Don’s Mill,, iii. p. 185.) 
Shrubs, the branches of which are without prickles, and the leaves and 
fruit of which resemble those of the currant more than those of the goose- 
berry. 
