190 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Class V. 
550. RIBES. TV. 
3107rubrum W. 
(3 album 
y sylvestre 
3108 petrae'um W. 
3109 multiflorum Kit. 
3110 spicatum Sm. 
3111 trifidum Mich. 
3112 procumbens Pall. 
3113rigens Mich. 
3114i prostratum P?i. 
3115 alpinum W. 
3116 aureum Ph. 
3117 nigrum W. 
3118fl6ridum W. 
3119 laxiflorum Ph. 
3120 resinosum Ph. 
Currant. 
red ^ 
white Si 
wild ik 
rock ^ 
many-flowered ^ 
acid 
trifid 
trailing Sfe 
stiff 3^ 
glandulous 3^ 
Alpine 3i 
golden 3^ 
black ^ 
Pensylvanian 3^ 
loose-flowered Si 
clammy ^ 
Grossulacete. 
ap.my G 
ap.my G 
ap.my G 
my R 
ap.my Gr 
ap.my G 
ap.my Pu 
my.jn Pu 
ap.my G 
ap.my Pu 
ap.my G 
ap.my Y 
ap.my G 
ap.my G 
ap.my Y.G 
ap.my Y.g 
Sp. 25—49. 
Britain riv. ba. 
Britain 
Britain 
England moun. 
Hungary 1822. 
England m. wo. 
Quebec 1823. 
Dahuria 1804. 
N. Amer. 1812. 
N. Amer. 1777. 
Britain woods. 
Missouri 1812. 
Britain m. bed. 
N. Amer. 1729. 
N. Amer. 1812. 
N. Amer. 1800. 
r.m Eng. bot. 1289 
r.m 
r.m 
CO Eng. bot. 705 
CO Bot. mag. 2368 
CO Eng. bot. 1290 
Pall. ross. 2. t. 65 
L'Her. st 1. 1 2 
Eng. bot. 704 
Bot. reg, 125 
Eng. bot. 1291 
Dil. el.t.244.f.315 
CO Bot. mag. 1583 
3121 hirtellum Ph. 
3122 grScile Ph. 
312r3 triflorum Ph. 
3124 orientale Desf. 
3125 diacantha W. 
3126 reclinatum W. 
3127 GrossulSria W. 
3128 Uva-cr'ispa W. 
3129 oxyacanthoides W. 
3130 lacustre Ph. 
3131 Cynosbati W. 
551. GRONO'VIA. W. 
3132scandens TV. 
552. ACHYRAN'THES. 
3133argentea TV. 
3134aspera TV. 
3135 porrigens H. K. 
3136 n'lvea TV. 
3137 frutic6sa Lam. 
3138 pubfocens Roth. 
hairy 
or 
3 
ap.my 
Y.G 
N. Amer. 
1812. 
L 
s.l 
slender 
or 
4 
ap.my 
Y.G 
N. Amer. 
1812. 
L 
s.l 
three-flowered 
or 
4 
ap.my 
G.R 
N. Amer. 
1812. 
L 
r.l 
W. ho.be. l.tei 
eastern 
or 
4 
my.jn 
G.Y 
Syria 
1824. 
C 
CO 
two-spined 
or 
4 
my.jn 
G.Y 
Siberia 
1781. 
L 
r.l 
Schm. arb. t. 97 
procumbent 
or 
0 
ap.my 
P.G 
Germany 
1683. 
L 
CO 
rough- Gooseb. 
fr 
4 
mr.ap 
G 
England 
hed. 
C 
r.m 
Eng. bot. 1292 
smth.-Gooseb. 
fr 
4 
mr.ap 
G 
England 
hed. 
C 
r.m 
Eng. bot. 2057 
Hawthorn-lvd. 
or 
3 
ap.my 
W.Y 
N. Amer. 
1705. 
L 
CO 
D.el. 1. 139. f. 166 
swamp 
or 
4 
ap.my 
Y.G 
N. Amer. 
1812. 
C 
pi 
prickly-fruited 
m 
or 
4 
ap 
G 
Canada 
1759. 
C 
s.l 
Schmidt, arb. 98 
Gronovia. 
Cucurbitaceis. 
Sp. 1—2. 
climbing 
6 
jn.jl 
G.Y 
Jamaica 
1731. 
C 
p.l 
Jac. ic. 2. t.338 
TV. ACHYRANTHES. 
AmaranthacecE. Sp. 6 — 28. 
upright 
**- □ 
1 cu 
1 
my.o 
W 
Sicily 
1713. 
C 
Ls 
Bocc. sic. 16. t. 9 
rough 
St- n 
1 cu 
3 
my.o 
Pk 
India 
1751. 
C 
l.s 
Mill.ic.l.t.ll.f.2 
crimson-flower. «L li 
1 cu 
2 
ap.au 
Pu 
1802. 
C 
r.m Bot. mag. 830 
white 
«t-L_J 
1 cu 
2 
my.jl 
W 
Canaries 
1780. 
C 
r.m 
shrubby 
m. \ j 
1 cu 
6 
my.jl 
Pu 
E. Indies 
1820. 
1821. 
C 
r.m 
pubescent 
SL i_J 
1 cu 
n ap.jl 
Pk 
C 
r.m 
3110 
3117 
History, Use, Propagation, Culture, 
bees and flies, Avhen little other food is to be had. The berries increase during the winter, are full formed iu 
February, and ripen in April ; furnishing food for wild pigeons, blackbirds, thrushes, &c. in the spring. Black- 
birds, and several other birds, build their nests in the stumps of ivy tufts. Sheep are fond of the leaves, espe- 
cially during severe weather. The ancients held ivy in great esteem, and Bacchus is represented crowned with 
it to prevent intoxication. 
H. Helix vegeta, the giant or Irish ivy, perhaps a distinct species, is a native of the island of Madeira. 
,550. Ribes. The name of an acid plant mentioned by the Arab physicians, and supposed to be the plant now 
called Rheum Ribes. R. grossularia is so called because its berries resemble little half-ripe figs, — grossi. This 
is a genus of well known shrubs ; some of them much cultivated for their fruit. R. rubrum, the'common red 
currant, is the Groseilles en grappes, or Groseilles d'outre mer, Fr., Gemeine Johannisbeere, Ger., and Uvetta, 
Ital. The English name currant is evidently from the similitude of the fruit to that of the grape of Zante, 
which dried forms the corinths or currants of the shops. The fruit has an agreeable sub-acid taste, and is gene- 
rally relished both at the dessert and in pies and tarts. Equal weights of fruit and pure sugar, put over the 
fire, yield a liquor which forms a most agreeable jelly, used as a sweetmeat to eat with hare, venison, and 
Welch mutton, to flavor punch, and as a medicine. It is also much used for making wine, and is grown to a 
considerable extent for that purpose in Essex, Kent, and about Pershore in Worcestershire. The prin- 
cipal varieties are the white, and pale or Champagne; but any number of varieties may be procured 
from sowing the seeds ; from which, however, none superior to those in general use have been hitherto 
originated. 
The culture of the red currant is known to every countryman. It grows freely by cuttings of last year's 
wood, v.'hich should be of sufficient length to form a handsome plant, with a clean stem, ten inches high. It 
grows in any soil, but prospers best in one loamy and rich. The best flavored fruit is produced from plants in 
an open free situation, but they will grow under the shade of walls or trees, and either as low bushes or trained 
against walls or esjialiers. They bear chiefly from spurs, and therefore, in pruning, most of tlie young wood 
is cut to within two or three buds of that where it originated. 
R. nigrum, the black currant, is common in moist woods in Russia and Siberia, where a wine is made of the 
berries alone, or fermented with honey, and with or without spirits. In Siberia they make a drink of the 
leaves : these tincture common spirits so as to resemble brandy ; and a few of them dried and mixed with black 
tea, answer all the purposes of the green material, Many persons dislike the very peculiar flavor of the berries 
