3(). (;rossularik.e. 
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Order XXXVI. GKOSSULARIEyE. 
Cal. superior, 4 — 5-cleft, rejrular. Pet. 4 — 5, small, inserted 
at the mouth of the tube and alternating with the stamens. Ovary 
1 -celled, with 2 opposite ])arietal })laeentas. Style 2 — 4-cleft. 
Perry many-seeded ; cell filled with pulp. Albumen horny. 
1. Rihes. Cal. 5-cleft. Pet. and stamens inserted at the 
mouth of the tube. Perry many-seeded, crowned with the 
j)ersistent caly.\. 
1. Hires 
* Peduncles 1 — 3-jlowered. Stems spinous. 
tl. R. Grossularia (L.); peduncles 1 — 2 or rarely 3-flowered 
with 2 minute bracts, cal. bellshaped, sep. reflexed oblong, pet. 
ovate. — E. B. 1292 and 2057- St. 4. 4. and 44. 13. — Thorns 
1 — 3 at the base of the young branches. Germen and fruit 
smooth or pubescent or glandular. L. rounded 3 — 5-lobed and 
cut, glabrous or hairy. — Hedges and thickets, doubtfully native. 
Sh. IV. V. Gooseberry. 
** Flowers racemose. Spines none. 
2. R. alpinum (L.) ; racemes upright both in flower and fruit 
glandular-pilose, bracts longer than the pedicels lanceolate, cal. 
glabrous, 1. shining beneath. — E. B. 704. St. 51 . (i. — Male raceme 
dense, of many flowers ; fern, of 2 — 5 fl. Limb of the calyx nearly 
flat. Perries scarlet. L. with 3 acute deeply seiTate lobes.— Woods 
in the north, rare. Sh. IV. V. E. S. 
3. R. nigrum {L.); racemes pendulous downy nith a simple 
pedicel at the base of each, bracts subulate shorter than the pedi- 
cels, cal. pubescent, 1. glandulai’-punctate beneath. — E. B. 1291. 
— Racemes lax. Calyx-limb bellshaped. Berries large, black. 
L. with 3 — 5 acute serrated lobes. — In damp and swampy places. 
Sh. IV. V. Black Currant. 
4. R. rubrum (L.); racemes mostly glabrous and pendulous, 
bracts shorter than the pedicels ovate, cal. nearly flat glabrous, 
1. obtusely 5-lobed. — a. sylvestre ; stam. very short erect crutch- 
shaped, filament shorter than the breadth of the anther, cells 
distant, connective very broad and short, fl. tinged ndth brown 
or puiple, fr. pale red. — /3, sativum-, stam. rather connivent, fila- 
ment about as long as the breadth of the anther, cells near toge- 
ther prominent, connective narrow, fl. greenish, fr. red. — E. B. 
1289. (Phytol. ii. 517-) — y. petraum (Hook.)-, racemes slightly 
downy, in flower upright, in fruit pendulous, anth. -cells near to- 
gether. R. petreeum Sm., E. B. 705., not Wulf . — S. spicatum 
(Ilook.) ; racemes erect both in flower and fruit, “ fl. nearly ses- 
