. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 681. R. elaCUe. glandular, with the segments recurved. Calyx greenish white, with the tube 4 lines long. Leaves smelling like those of if. floridum. {Don's Mill.) An upright shrub. North America. Height 3 ft. to 4 ft. Introduced in 1827. Flowers greenish white; April. Fruit amber-coloure
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 681. R. elaCUe. glandular, with the segments recurved. Calyx greenish white, with the tube 4 lines long. Leaves smelling like those of if. floridum. {Don's Mill.) An upright shrub. North America. Height 3 ft. to 4 ft. Introduced in 1827. Flowers greenish white; April. Fruit amber-coloured ; ripe in July. This species was received from Mr. Floy of New York, under the name of the intoxicating currant, but without any other account of its properties. The berries may probably possess some narcotic quality. The waxy-leaved Currant. Don's Mill., 3. p. 190. jt 40. R. CE^REUM Dougl. Identification. Dougl. in Hort. Trans., 7. p. 512.: Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 12G3.; and oar fig. 838. Spec. Char., Ifc. Leaves small, cordate, lobed, serrated, clothed with glandular pubescence, glabrous, glaucous, full of white i glands above. Racemes pendulous, rather \ capitate. Bracteas ovate, adpressed to the germens, which are glabrous. Flowers nearly sessile, cylindrical, rather angular. Calycine segments small, reflexed. (Don's Mill.) A low bush. North-west America, on the banks of the Columbia, and its southern tributary streams, from the Great Falls to the Rocky Mountains. Height 2 ft. to 3 ft. Introduced in 1827. Flowers whitish; April. Fruit amber; ripe in July. In its small foliage and few-flowered ra- cemes, this species resembles the gooseberry tribe; but it has no thorns. The flowers are rather large and white, with a slight tinge of green, and are rather downy. White waxy dots like scales cover the upper surface of the leaf; whence the specific name. I I 3. 883. A. c& Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digital
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