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XXXVI. GKOSSULARIACE.E. 
[Riles. 
sterile branches closely imbricated adpressed, cymes nearly 
level-topped, segments of the calyx elliptical obtuse. E. B. 
t. 170. S. elegans Lej. 
St. Vincent and Cheddar rocks, Somersetshire. Barmouth, Tre- 
madoc, and Ormeshead, Wales. Walls about Darlington, York- 
shire. 2/.. 6, 7. Too near, we fear, to the last. 
11. S. Forsteridnum Sm. ( Welsh Rock S ') ; leaves lanceolate 
flattened produced at the base, those of the sterile branches 
spreading in many rows, cymes compact round-topped, segments 
of the calyx elliptical obtuse. E. B. t. 1802. 
Rocks in the spray of waterfalls, Wales. Rhydoll, Cardiganshire ; 
Barmouth ; Hisvae, valley of Nant-phrancon ; Little Ormeshead. 
Caer-Caradoc, Shropshire. If . 6, 7. — This seems chiefly to differ 
from the last by the leaves on the sterile branches spreading and 
forming small rose-like tufts, and by the slightly different form of the 
cymes; characters not of primary importance. In the whole genus 
the inflorescence is definite, and consequently forms a cyme, although 
sometimes with the appearance of a corymb or panicle. 
Ord. XXXVI. GROSSULARIACErE Be Cand. 
Calyx 4 — 5-cleft, the tube entirely or in part adnate with the 
ovary. Petals 4 — 5, small, placed at the mouth of the tube 
alternately with the 4 — 5 short stamens. Ovary 1 -celled, with 
two opposite parietal placentas which are sometimes projected 
into the interior and resemble dissepiments. Ovules many. 
Style 2 — 4-cleft, Berry crowned with the remains of the calyx. 
Seeds suspended by long stalks among the pulp. Albumen 
horny. — Shrubs, often spiny, of temperate climates, with alternate 
lobed leaves. 
1. Hires Linn. Currant and Gooseberry. 
Petals small, scale-like. Stam. included or nearly so. ( Style 
erect, and ovary with nerve-like placentas in all the British spe- 
cies.) — Name: Ribes was a word applied by the Arabian phy- 
sicians to a species of rhubarb. Rheum Ribes; our older botanists 
believed that it was our gooseberry, and hence Bauhin called 
that plant Ribes acidum. 
* Flowers racemose or spicate. Spines none. 
1 . R. rubrum L. ( common or red C.) ; flowers perfect, leaves 
bluntly 5 -lobed, bracteas very small, calyx nearly plane and 
ovary glabrous, petals obtuse. — a. racemes glabrous pendulous. 
E. B. t. 1289. — /3. racemes slightly downy, erect in flower, 
pendulous in fruit. R. petrasuin Sm. (not Wulf.) : E. B. 
t. 705. — y. racemes spicate, erect in flower and fruit. R. spi- 
caturn Robs.: E. B. t. 1290. 
