PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Ribes. 335 
Tees, between Pierce-bridge and Gain ford, in the county of Durham. 
Not now to be found in the Jatter station, but Mr. Winch suspects it may 
be the same as R. petrceum, which has been observed near Pierce-bridge ; 
also in Scot’s Wood Dean, and in Teesdale Forest. E.) 
S. April—May. 
R. nPgrum. Bunches hairy, (pendulous, with a separate flower-stalk 
at the base of each, E.) : flowers oblong. 
(E. Bot. 1291. E.)— Ludw. 91— Kniph. 2— El. Dan. 556 — Wale. — Sheldr. 
91. 7, fruit — Woodv. 75 — Blackw. 28 5. 6— Dod. 749— Ger. Em. 1593— 
J. B. ii. 99. I—Park. 1562. 2—Park. ib. 3. 
( Leaves large, five-lobed, serrated, glandulose beneath, with a strong scent 
when rubbed. Plant three to five feet high, more spreading than R. ru - 
brum. Clusters remarkable, says Sir J. E. Smith, for a separate stalk at 
the base, whose fruit is earlier and larger than the rest. Berries large, 
globose, black. E.) Buds glandular. Floral-leaves downy, and as long 
as the little fruit-stalks. Flowers downy. Leaf-stalks a little so, and 
beset with glands. Flowers turban-shaped. Calyx segments often of a 
rich brown red colour. Stamens sometimes more than five, and then 
there are fewer petals; so that when there are ten stamens there are no 
petals. This change of the petals into stamens is just the reverse of the 
process by which single flowers are known to become double, but it is 
the only instance of the kind that has occurred to my observation. 
Squinancy Berries. Black Currants. Wet hedges and banks of 
rivers. Alder swamps, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. (Banks of the Teign, 
near Chudleigh Bridge, Devon. Rev. J- Pike Jones. On Costesy island, 
near Norwich. Mr. Rose. FI. Brit. In Ravens worth Wood, near New¬ 
castle ; on the banks of Skern, mear Darlington ; and in Mr. Troutbeck’s 
woods, Culgaith, Cumberland. Mr. Winch. Between Norwich and 
Y armouth, by the river, in several places. Sir J. E. Smith. Auchindenny 
woods. Grev. Edin. E.) S. May.* 
(2) With prickles. Gooseberries. 
R. grossula'ria. Branches prickly: fringe of the leaf-stalks hairy: 
berries hirsute: (segments of the calyx reflexed, shorter than 
the tube. E.) 
(E. Bot. 1292. E.)— Wale. — Kniph. 1. 
(A low bush, with prickly stems and branches. Leaves three-lobed, cut, 
slightly pubescent. Leaf-stalks hairy, often longer than the leaves. 
* The berries have a very peculiar flavour, which many persons dislike ; but their juice 
is frequently boiled down into an extract, with the addition of a small proportion of sugar; 
in this state it is called rob; and is much used in sore throats, chiefly in those of the 
inflammatory kind. The tender leaves tinge common spirits so as to resemble brandy. 
An infusion of the young roots is useful in fevers of the eruptive kind ; and in the dysen¬ 
teric fevers of cattle. Goats and horses eat the leaves. Linnaeus. A horse refused it. Stokes. 
All the species of Ribes are eaten by Phnlcena Grossularia , (whose black and white caterpillar 
destroys the foliage ; but the most destructive enemy is a small saw-fly, which attaches its 
eggs in rows to the under sides of the leaves. Having consumed the leaf on which they 
were hatched, these little animals separate from each other, and the work of devastation 
proceeds with such rapidity, that frequently, where many families are produced on the same 
bush, nothing of the leaves is left but the veins, and consequently all the fruit is spoiled. 
Andrena kelvola is likewise found upon it. E.) 
