962 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III, 



Spec Char., $c. Leaves smooth, moderately lobed. Racemes loosely many- 

 flowered, pubescent. Flowers small. Calycine segments rather trifid. 

 Berries hairy, red. Lobes of leaves acutish. Racemes weak, nearly like 

 those of R. rubrum, but the flowers smaller. Petals purplish, spathulate, 

 rounded at the apex. (Don's Mill., iii. p. 186.) Perhaps this is the same as 

 R. prostratum. A native of North America, near Quebec, and at Hudson's 

 Bay. A prostrate shrub ; flowering in April and May. Introduced 

 in 1823. 



a* 27. R. (r.) albine'rvum Michx. The vihxte-wevv ed-leaved red Currant. 



Identification. Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1. p. 110. Don's Mill., 3. p. 187- 



Spec. Char., §c. Leaves short, petiolate, deeply and acutely lobed, smoothish, 

 with whitish nerves. Racemes recurved. Flowers small. Berries red, 

 glabrous. (Don's Mill., iii. p. 187.) Native of Canada and the Catskill 

 Mountains, in the State of New York. A shrub, 4 ft. high, flowering in 

 April and May. 



* 28. R. ri^gens Michx. The stiff-racemed red Currant. 



Identification. Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. p. 110. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 136. ; Don's Mill., 3. 

 p. 187. 



Spec. Char., $c. Branches erect. Leaves glabrous above, pubescent beneath, 

 wrinkled reticulately ; lobes and teeth acute. Racemes rather loose, 

 many-flowered; when bearing the fruit, stiffish and erect. Berries red, 

 hispid. (Don's Mill., iii. p. 187.) Native of Canada and the mountains of 

 Pennsylvania. A shrub, growing from 4 ft. to 6 ft. high, and flowering in 

 April and May. Introduced in 1812. 



a* 29. R. puncta^tum Ruiz et Pav. The rlottQol-leaved red Currant. 



Identification. Ruiz et. Pav. Fl. Per., 2. p. 12. t. 233. f. a. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 187. 

 Engravings. Berl. in Mem. Soc. Phys. Gen., 3 pt. 2. t. 2. f. 19.; Lindl. Bot. Reg.,t. 1278.; and our 

 fig. 133. 



Spec. Char., eye. Leaves 3-lobed, serrated, 

 beset with resinous glands beneath, as are 

 also the bracteas. Racemes longer than 

 the leaves, either drooping or erect. Brac- 

 teas cuneate-oblong, obtuse, at length re- 

 flexed. Calyx campanulate, yellowish. Ber- 

 ries oblong, hairy, red, and dotted. Petals 

 small, yellow. (Don's Mill.,\\\. p. 187.) Na- 

 tive of Chili, on hills. Introduced in 1826. 

 A shrub, growing 3 ft. or 4 ft. high, flowering in April and May. The leaves 

 are shining, and of a yellowish green ; and its short bunches of yellow 

 flowers are produced in the axils of the leaves. The plant throws up 

 suckers from the roots ; a circumstance which distinguishes it from almost 

 every other species of the genus in British gardens. There is a plant in 

 the Garden of the Horticultural Society, against a south wall, which 

 blossoms freely every year, and appears quite hardy, but has not yet 

 ripened fruit. The leaves, when rubbed, have an agreeable odour. 



a 30 R. (p.) glandulo\sum Ruiz et Pav. The glandular-ca/y-re*/ red 



Currant. 



Identification. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Per., t. 233., but not of Ait. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 189. 

 Engraoings. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Per., t. 233. f. 6. ; Berl. in Mem. Phys. Gen., 3. pi. 2. t. 2. f. 20. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves cordate, bluntly 3-lobed, doubly serrated, rugged. 

 Racemes short. Calyx glandular, pubescent. A native of Chili, on 

 wooded hills. (Don's Mill., iii. p. 189.) A shrub, growing from 4 ft. to 6 ft. 

 hi^'li ; introduced in 1820, and flowering in April and May. Evidently a 

 variety of the preceding species. 



