erecta, margine externá rubente loculorum dehiscentes ; pollen ochroleucum, 
Stigma viride, bifidum, equale corolle. Bacce glabra esculente. 
A native of North America, where it has been found in 
Upper Louisiana on the banks of the Missouri, by Messrs. 
Bradbury and Nuttall; also on the other side of the Rocky 
Mountains on the banks of the Columbia by Captains Lewis 
and Clarke, in the celebrated journey across the American 
continent to the Pacific sea, performed by those officers at 
the order of the government of the United States. In Mr. 
A. D. Lambert's Herbarium there are specimens from each 
of these quarters, which seem to differ in no other respect, 
than that some of those from the Atlantic side of the 
Rocky Mountains are more conspicuously pubescent, and 
with larger bractes than those from the side next the Pacific. 
With us this prettty shrub has as yet no other value than 
that which arises from a colour and fragrance of blossom 
unlooked for in this genus; but in its native place it is 
highly prized for the excellence of the fruit, which is said 
to be larger than any of our more common garden .sorts. 
'The bush is perfectly hardy, and seems to thrive in almost 
any situation, blossoming freely about the middle of May; 
but no fruit has been obtained during the five years it has 
been known in our gardens, the flowers dropping off pre- 
maturely at the constricted joint below the germen. In size 
and manner of growth it resembles our common currants ; 
but the foliage is considerably smaller, of a bright green, 
unwrinkled, indented only at the top of the three lobes into 
which it is divided, and in our specimen its surface on both 
sides was without pubescence, but the edge shortly ciliated. 
Flower-bunches numerous, scattered, solitary, produced as 
usual in the genus from a common bud with the foliage; 
flowers 10-20, quite smooth, nearly an inch long, of a bright 
golden yellow, disposed on the upper half of the peduncle 
in the form of a thyrwe; peduncle villous, almost upright, 
pedicles 3-4 times shorter than the flower, separated by 
foliaceous entire gradually decreasing bractes. Cal. tubular 
and slightly curved. Petals pale yellow, changing at the 
top to a bright pink-colour. Stamens equal to the petals. 
Stigma deep green, bifid, 
Introduced by Mr. Nuttall. The drawing was made at 
Mr. Knight’s nursery, in the King’s Road, Chelsea. 
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a The flower dissected vertically. 
