334 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Ribes. 
(R. petrje'um. Clusters slightly downy; in flower upright, in fruit 
pendulous : flowers slightly concave : petals bluntish : bracteas 
shorter than the flower-stalks: stem erect. 
E. Bot. 70 5. 
Leaves like the preceding, but more downy beneath, particularly about the 
veins. Flowers greenish yellow, often reddish. Bracteas recurved, 
fringed. Berries bright red. Sm. Hook. 
Rock Currant. Mountainous woods of the north. We have been fa¬ 
voured with specimens by Mr. Winch, who has observed this species in 
hedges near the vicarage, Keswick: on the Wigton road beyond 
Liswick; and near Ormathwaite, Cumberland. Near Conscliffe, Dur¬ 
ham. Mr. Robson. Woods near Airly-castle, by the river side. Mr. G. 
Don, in Hook. Scot. S. May—June. E.) 
R. alpi'num. Bunches upright: floral-leaves longer than the flowers. 
(j E. Bot. 704. E.)— FI. Dan. 968— Kniph. 3— Gunn. ii. 2. 1 and 2— Jacq. 
Austr. 47— J. B. ii. 98. 
( Stem erect. E.) Leaves segments spear-shaped, pointed, (polished at the 
back. E.) Calyx tubular, bluntly five-sided. Stamens shorter than the 
petals. Pistil as tall as the calyx. ( Berries scarlet, mucilaginous and 
insipid. Flowers occasionally dioecious, as observed in a hedge not far 
from Ilam, in the north of Staffordshire, by John Sneyd, Esq. and, accord¬ 
ing to Mr. Robson, frequently so about Darlington. E.) 
Tasteless Mountain Currant. (Welsh: Rhyfwydden myryddaw. 
E.) (Hedges between Bangor Ferry and Bangor. Rev. H. Davies. 
Stay ley Wood, in a place called Stocks, Cheshire. Mr. Bradbury. Woods 
about Darlington. Winch Guide. Woods and hedges in Yorkshire, 
about Fountain’s Abbey, &c. E.) About Bradford. Mr. Woodward. 
In the wood on the south-west side of the pool at Edgbaston, plentifully : 
(we suspect too artificial a spot. E.) S. May.* * 
R. spica'tum. Spikes upright: petals oblong: floral-leaves shorter 
than the flowers. Linn. Tr. 
( E. Bot. 1290. E.)— Linn. Tr. v. iii. pi. 21. 
This is not a hybrid, for its seeds produce perfect plants. It approaches to 
R. petrasum of Jacquin in some respects, but the fruit of that species is 
pendent, which is not the case with this. The upright spikes are suffi¬ 
cient to distinguish it from all its congeners. Robs. 
Discovered and described by Mr. Robson. He had the first tree from the 
neighbourhood of Richmond, Yorkshire, and afterwards found it by the 
the green leaves become red, pitted, and puckered; (not unfrequently clammy and black 
from the egesta of innumerable insects. The branches are liable to be perforated by the 
caterpillar of Sesia tipuliformis. Bombus pratorum will also be found upon it. E.) 
* The fruit has an insipid sweetish taste, and is only agreeable to children. The wood, 
being hard and tough, makes good teeth for rakes. Cows, goats, sheep, and horses eat the 
leaves. (“ It is well worth observing how truly the insertion of the stamina into the calyx, 
as in the Class Icosanrlria , indicates a wholesome fruit. The fruits of Pcntandria Muno- 
gynia are generally dangerous, many of them peculiarly fatal. Ribes is an exception, 
indicated by the insertion of its stamina, in which, though not in their number, it accords 
with Icosandna. With this simple guide a traveller in the most unknown wilderness 
might eat in safety, and thus the natural tree of knowledge leads to life.” E. Bot. E.) 
