PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Rises. 
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brook, towards the cascade. Mr. Watt. (Near Lyme Hall, Cheshire. 
Mr. G. Holme, in Bot. Guide. Banks of the river Camlet, at Morring- 
ton, in the parish of Chirbury, five miles from Mongomery. Bingley. 
Sides of the river Avon near Salisbury. Dr. Maton. At the base of the 
old walls of Fountain’s Abbey. Teesdale. In a moist glen at Castle- 
milk. Hopkirk. Hook. Scot. E.) A. July—Aug.* 
RFBES.f Petals five, they and the stamens fixed on the 
calyx: Style cloven: Berry beneath, one-celled, many- 
seeded. 
(1) Without prickles. Currants. 
R. ru'brum. Bunches smooth, pendent: flowers rather flattened: (pe¬ 
tals inversely heart-shaped. E.) 
Woodv. 74— FI. Dan. 967— (E. Bot. 1289. E.)— Ludw. 92— Sheldr. 91. 1,- 
2, 8, and 5— Wale. — Blackw. 28 5. 1. 24— Kniph. 2— Trag. 995— Matth. 
168 —CJus. i. 120. 1—Dod. 749. 2 —Loh. Ohs. 615. 2 —Ger. Em. 1593. 1 
—J. B. ii. 97. 
(Stem erect, smooth, with a deciduous cuticle. Leaves alternate, five-lobed, 
doubly serrated, on long fringed stalks, segments rounded. Calyx spread¬ 
ing. Floral-leaves shorter than the flower. Blossom greenish. Berries 
red, crowned with the shrivelled calyx. E.) 
Var. 2. Sweet Currants. Bibes vulgarisfructu dulci. Ray Syn. 456. 
Woods in Yorkshire and Leicestershire. 
Var.-3. Small Currants. Ribes fructu parvo. Ray Syn. 456. 
Wimbledon Park, Surry; and many places in Lancashire. 
Red Currant. Woods in the northern counties, (and in other hedges 
and thickets, though not properly wild. E.) Both this and R. nigrum 
are found undoubtedly wild upon the banks of rivers ; the former by the 
Tees, and the latter by the Skern, in many places. Mr. Robson. (Be¬ 
side the Eden in Whinfield Park and Culgaith, Cumberland. Hutchin¬ 
son. Side of the Avon, between Warwick and Emscote. Perry. Isle of 
Isla among brushwood, on the banks of the Sound. Lightfoot. Cullross 
woods. Maughan. Hook. Scot. E.) S. May-t 
* (Both the generic and specific names, (as also the most appropriate English designa¬ 
tions), refer to the elasticity of the valves of the seed-vessel. The general structure of the 
flower resembles that of its congener J. Bahama , of the East and West Indies, from which 
we derive the various superb Balsams. Our more hardy annual might be worthy of intro¬ 
duction in the parterre, and by the art of floriculture would probably afford some agreeable 
transmutations. E.) The whole plant is considerably acrid. Goats eat it. Hoises, 
cows, aud sheep refuse it. Sphinx Elpenor lives upon it. 
+ (Said to be of Arabian origin, and more properly belonging to a species of Rheum, 
but the name has been erroneously applied to the Currant and Gooseberry for centuries 
past. E.) 
f (Generally cultivated, with berries red, pale pink, or white, in the gardens of the 
north of Europe; not so successfully in the south. White currants trained against walls 
grow to a large size, and are worthy of a place in the most elegant dessert. E.) The fruit 
is universally acceptable, either as nature presents it, or made into jelly. The juice is a 
pleasant acid in punch. If equal weights of picked currants and pure sugar be put over the 
fire, the liquor that separates spontaneously is a most agreeable jelly. Cows, goats, and 
sheep eat the leaves. Horses are not fond of them. Linnaeus. (For home made wines no fruit 
is more acceptable than Currants. The red and white are extremely palatable ; the black 
suitable to invalids. E.) This plant is very apt to be infested by Aphis Ribes , and then 
