550 330. Ribes. 50. GROSSULARI.ZE. PI. ex. cal. 
Ribes nigrum vulgo dictum, folio olente, Raii Syn. 456, 4. 
Ribes fructu nigro, Ger. em. 1593,3; Park. 1562. 
Quinsey berries. 
Woods and dunghills; shrubby; May. 
Berry black ; leaves odorous, unpleasant.— Roots in in- 
fusion useful in eruptive fevers, and the dysentery of cattle ; 
leaves when young tinge malt spirits to resemble brandy ; 
berries have to most a disagreeable flavour, the juice of 
them made by boiling with a little sugar into a rob, or 
soft extract, much used in inflammatory sore throat, or the 
quinsey. 
0. polyandrum. Stamens more than 5, some or all of the 
petals being changed into stamens. 
b. Grossularias. Stem prickly ; peduncles few-jloivered. 
5. Biles spinosum . Thorny currant . 
Branches prickly; leaves roundly lobed; petioles hairy; 
peduncles 1 or 2-flowered. 
Uva crispa, Ger. em. 1324, 1. 
UVn crispa, sive Grossularia sylvestris, Park. 1560. 
Ribes Grossularia, Lin. S. P. 291. 
Gooseberry. Fea berry , Cheshire. Berries, Scotland. 
Woods and hedges, also cultivated; shrubby; April. 
Stem branchy; spines 1 to 3 together, under the petioles; 
leaves downy; Ir'actece 2 or 3 on each peduncle, fringed; 
berry hanging, varying in colour, hairy ; hairs capitated. — 
Berry a wholesome fruit, either raw, or dressed; seeds have 
been used for coffee; juice of the fruit with sugar make a 
sparkling wine like champagne, or a good vinegar. 
/3. glalrum . Berry bald ; bracteee connate, tubular. 
Ribes uva crispa, Lin. S. P. 292. 
Smooth gooseberries. 
Farm XVI. 51. CUCURBITACEiE. 
Flowers mostly unisexual ; calyx adherent to the ovary, 
contracted above, dilated into a 5-cut limb; corolla bell- 
shape, on the top of the ovary, 5-lobed, withering, per- 
sistent. Male. Stamens 3 to 5, on the contraction of the 
calyx ; filaments often jointed; anthers 1- celled, on the tip 
of the filament, flexuous, often in 2 pairs and the 5th soli- 
tary ; ovary abortive. Fem. Stamens abortive ; ovary ad- 
herent; styles and stigmata many; berry or pepo 1 or many- 
celled, many-seeded, bark woody; seeds horizontal, on the 
