Note 32 — PETER KALM’s TRAVELS. (continued 2)
Johann Reinhold Forster translation
The English and the Swedes of America give the name of Currants32 to a shrub which grows in wet ground, and near swamps, and which was now in blossom; its flowers are white, have a very agreeable fragrancy, and grow in oblong bunches; the fruit is very good eating, when it is ripe; the Style (Stylus) is thread-shaped (filiformis), and shorter than the Stamina; it is divided in the middle, into five parts, or Stigmata. Dr. Linnæus calls it Cratægus33, and Dr. Gronovius calls it a Mespilus34.