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1 THe plant which carries the fruit which we commonly terme red Currans, is a shrubbie bush of the bignesse of a Gooseberry bush, but without prickles: the wood is soft and white, with a pretty large pith in the middle: it is couered with a double barke, the vndermost, be∣ing the thicker, is greene, and the vppermost, which sometimes chaps and pills off, is of a brownish
colour, and smooth: the barke of the yongest shoots is whitish and rough: the leaues, which grow vpon footstalkes some two inches long, are somewhat like Vine leaues, but smaller by much, and lesse cornered, being cut into three, and sometimes, but seldomer, into fiue parts, somwhat thicke, with many veines running ouer them, greener aboue than they are below: out of the branches in Spring time grow stalkes hanging downe some six inches in length, carrying many little greenish floures, which are succeeded by little red berries, cleare and smooth, of the bignesse of the Whor∣tle berries, of a pleasant tart taste. Of this kinde there is another, onely different from this in the fruit, which is twice so big as that of the common kind.
2 The bush which beares the white Currans is commonly straighter and bigger than the for∣mer: the leaues are lesser, the floures whiter, and so also is the fruit, being cleare and transparent, with a little blackish rough end.
3 Besides these there is another, which disfers little from the former in shape, yet grows som∣what higher, and hath lesser leaues: the floures are of a purplish green colour, and are succeeded by fruit as big againe as the ordinary red, but of a stinking and somewhat loathing sauour: the leaues also are not without this stinking smell.