VI. ex. cal. SO. GROSSULARIJS. 330. Ribes. 549 
Ribes vulgaris fructu rubro, Raii Syn. 456, 1 ; Ger . em. 1593, 1. 
Ribes fructu rubro, Park. 1561. 
Ribes rubrum, Lin. S. P. 290. 
Common currant. Garnet berries. 
Woods and sides of rivers, also cultivated; shrubby; 
May. 
Branches bald; leaves slightly downy ; racemes simple; 
hractece ovate, very short ; herry red, when cultivated some- 
times white, acid. — Berries an agreeable desert ; juice of 
the berries a pleasant acid, with sugar make a fine wine. 
0. dulce . Fruit sweet. 
Ribes vulgaris fructu dulci, Raii Syn. 456, 1*. 
Sweet currants. 
y. parvum. Fruit small. 
Ribes fructu parvo, Dillen in Raii Syn. 456,3. 
2. Ribes alpinum . Alpine currant. 
Stem upright, unarmed ; leaves shining beneath ; racemes 
upright ; hractece longer than the flowers. 
Ribes alpinus dulcis, Raii Syn. 45 6, 2. 
Ribes alpinum, Lin. S. P.291. 
Sweet mountain currants. 
Woods and hedges; shrubby; April and May. 
Leaves 3-lobed ; racemes upright ; fiowers yellowish 
green ; hractece lanceolate ; herry elliptical, mucilaginous. 
j3. dioicum . Plants dioicous. 
3. Rihes petrceum . Rock currant . 
Stem upright, unarmed; leaves acutely lobed,cut, toothed; 
racemes rather hairy, upright ; flowers flattish ; petals blunt; 
hractece shorter than the flowers. 
Ribes petrseum, Wolff, in Jac. Misc. 2, 36. 
Mountains; shrubby; May. 
Leaves 5-lobed, nappy beneath ; hractece ovate ; pedicells 
short; racemes when in fruit pendulous; herry globular. 
j3. spicatum . Flowers rather spiked ; spike when in fruit 
upright. 
Ribes spicatum, Robson Lin. Trans. 3,240. 
4*. Rihes nigrum . Black currant. 
Stem upright, unarmed; leaves with glandular dots be- 
neath ; racemes weak, hairy, hanging down, simple at bot- 
tom ; flowers bellshape ; hractece shorter than the pedicel). 
