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Europe. Height 4 ft. Flowers yellowish green ; April and May. Fruit 
dark purple; ripe in June and July. 
Varieties. 
zs R. x. 2bacca flivida Hort. — Supposed to be a hybrid between the 
black and white currants, and to have been originated near Bath, 
previously to 1827. The fruit is of a dingy greenish yellow ; but 
the plant has the habit and general appearance of R. nigrum. 
& R. 2. 3 bacca viridi Hort. has the fruit green when ripe. This variety 
is common in Russia in a wild state. Hort. Soc. Garden. 
aw R.n, 4 foliis variegatis Vilm. — Leaves variegated with yellow streaks. 
Garden Varieties. Six of these are enumerated in the Horticultural So- 
ciety’s Fruit Catalogue of 1831, the best of which are the black Naples and 
the large black. The fruit of the former variety is very large and handsome, 
more especially when the plant is grown in deep rich soil, and in a situation 
rather shady and moist. 
The leaves, fruit, and the entire plant are powerfully diuretic. The treat- 
ment of the black currant, as a fruit tree, will be found in the Encyclopedia 
of Gardening, and in the Suburban Horticulturist. 
wn 28. RR, (N.) triste Pall. The sad-coloured, or dark-blossomed, black 
Currant. 
Identification. Pall. Nov. Act. Pet., 10. p. 378.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 189. 
Synonyme, R. altaicum Lodd. Cat. 
Engraving. Our jig. 869. from a living specimen. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves 5-lobed. Branches simple, 
twiggy, bearing leaves and racemes of flowers at 
the apex. Racemes pendulous, both when in 
flower and in fruit. Corollas flattish, of a dull 
brownish red on the outside, and yellowish 
inside. Petals revolute. Berries small, black, 
insipid. Root creeping. (Don’s Mill.) A low 
shrub. Siberia, on the Mongol Mountains. 
Height 2 ft. to 3 ft. Introducedin 1820. Flow- 
ers brownish red and yellow ; April and May. 
Fruit black; ripe in July. Differs from 2. nigrum only in the dull brown 
colour of the flowers, 
w 29. R. (n.) FLO’RIDUM L’Hérit. The flowery black Currant. 
Identification. L’Heérit. Stirp., 1. p. 4.; Ph. Sept., 1. p. 164. ; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 190. 
Synonymes. R. nigrum 2. Lin. Sp. 291.3 R. ennsylv4nicum Lam, Dict. 3. p. 49.5 HR. recur- 
‘vatum Michr. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1. p.109., according to Torrey ; Hibésium nigrum, &c., Dill. Elth, 
2, t. 244. f. 315, 
Engravings. Schmidt Baum., t. 92. ; and our fig. 870. i 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves full of resinous glands, 
3 or 5-lobed, cordate, doubly serrated. Ra- 
cemes pendulous, pubescent. Bracteas linear, 
longer than the pedicels. Calyx tubularly 
campanulate, glabrous : with the segments ob- 
tuse, and at length reflexed. Germens and 
black berries oval-globose, glabrous. This is 
in many respects nearly allied to A. nigrum; 
but its more copious and denser flowers, and 
especially their long bracteas, and more tubular 
calyxes, will always distinguish it: the solitary 
pedicel, too, at the base of the flowers, is want- . 
ing in this species. Petals oblong, rather erose 
at the apex; greenish yellow. (Don’s Mill.) 
A large shrub. Canada to Virginia, in hedges 
and woods. Height 4ft. to 6ft. Introduced 
in 1729. Flowers pale yellow; April and 870... tre) Aéridumn, 
May. Fruit black ; ripe in July. 
869, R. (n.) triste. 
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