Trees; a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory . Fig. 73. Black Currant, Ribes nigrum, p. 221 (D). RED CURRANT, ETC. 221 Ribes nigrum, L. Black Currant (Fig. 73). more or less pentagonal heart-shaped, coarse, angular,about 4—7 x 5-5—11 cm., cut into 3—7 triangular, acutelyserrate or bi-serrate lobes, dark green, glabrous and shining,or slightly pubescent, coarse and rough above; paler andglandular hairy beneath, especially when young. Sinusdeeper and leaves larger than in R. rubrum. Base slender, 3—4 cm., pubescent. Glandular hairsgolden ye
Trees; a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory . Fig. 73. Black Currant, Ribes nigrum, p. 221 (D). RED CURRANT, ETC. 221 Ribes nigrum, L. Black Currant (Fig. 73). more or less pentagonal heart-shaped, coarse, angular,about 4—7 x 5-5—11 cm., cut into 3—7 triangular, acutelyserrate or bi-serrate lobes, dark green, glabrous and shining,or slightly pubescent, coarse and rough above; paler andglandular hairy beneath, especially when young. Sinusdeeper and leaves larger than in R. rubrum. Base slender, 3—4 cm., pubescent. Glandular hairsgolden yellow. Autumn leaves yellow and brown. Venation as in R. rubrum. tt Leaves devoid of glands and strong odour. Ribes rubrum, L. Red Currant (Figs. 74 and 75).. Fig. 74. Red Currant, Ribes rubrum, p. 221 (Ett). 222 RED CURRANT Leaf about 4\5—8 x 5—9 cm., rounded in contour, some-what cordate at the base, palmately 3—5-lobed; lobesusually obtuse, unequally and coarsely serrate, smoothabove, young leaves softly hairy but eglandular, and paler
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