3 Betides thefe there is another, which differs little from the former in (hape, yet grows font* 
what higher, and hath leflTer leanes : the floures are of a purplilh green colour, and are Succeeded by 
fruit as big againe as the ordinary red, but ofa Sinking and Somewhat loathing fauour: the leanes 
alfoare notwithout this Sinking fmell. 
«|j The Place, Time, ami Names. 
None of thefe grow wild with vs, but they are to be found plentifully growing in many gardens, 
especially the two former, the red and the white. 
The ieaues and floures come forth in the Spring, and the fruit is ripe about Midfommer. 
This plant is thought to haue been vnknowne totheantient Greekes : fome thinkc it the Pikes 
'of rhe Arabian Serapio ■ Fiichfitu, Matthiolus, and fome other deny it ; notwithftanding Dodonitia 
affirmes it : neither is the controuerfie eafily robe decided, becaufe the Author is bricfein the de- 
scription thereof, neither haue we his words but- by thehandofabarbarotisTranflator. Howeuer 
the (hops of late time take it (the faculties confenting thereto) for the trueRibes, and of the fruic 
hereof prepare their Rob de Ribes. Doionnut calls 1 t Ribefium, pro(fulariarubra,^r Groffularialranf. 
marina. ; and they are diftinguifhed into three (urts,Rttbra,Alba,Ni<rra Ribcfia, red,white,and blacke' 
Currans : the Germans call them ttaUbell,orttaUblttl,and ia>,3!oijaiUS2Sm:IWi: the 
Dutch, IScfthttlS mice Zw i the Italians, Vuetta reft ■ the French, Groiffeles, GroifcUcs d' 'outre mer • 
die Bohemians, ^>,3I ana: the English, Red Currans : yet mult they not be confounded 
S ff ff f 3 vyitfe 
colour, and Smooth: the barke of theyongelt Shoots is whitifh and rough : rfle leaucs, which grow 
vponfootftalkeslome two inches long, are fomevvhat like Vine Ieaues, but Smaller by much, and 
leffc cornered, being cut into three, and Sometimes, but feldomeT,into flue parts, fomwhat thicke 
with many veines running oner them, greener aboue than they are below : out of the branches in 
Springtime grow ftalkes hanging dovvue fome (ix inches in Iengch, carrying many little cr reen jfh 
floures, which are Succeeded by little red berries, cleare and Smooth, of the bignelfe of the’whor- 
tle berries, ofa pleafant tart talk. Of this kinde there is another, onely different from this in the 
fruit, which is twice fobigas that of rhe common kind. 
%. 2 The bulb which beares the white Currans is commonly ftraighter and bigger than the for- 
mer : the leaucs are leflcr, the floures whiter, and fo alfo is the fruit, being cleare and transparent, 
with a little blackifh rough end. 
Ribc. 
arisfnielu rnbro. 
i R’bes fiufftt albo . 
White Currans. 
