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RÍBES* tenuiflórum. 
Scarlet-leaved Currant. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. GROSSULACEE. 
RIBES.— Suprà, vol. 2. fol. 125. 
R. tenuiflorum ; inerme, foliis subrotundis trilobis farinosis; lobis apice 
obtusé dentatis, racemis pendulis multifloris, calycibus tubulatis glabris 
pedicello longioribus coloratis, petalis integerrimis calycis laciniis lmeari- 
bus obtusis duplo brevioribus, baccis glabris. 
Ribes tenuiflorum. Lindley in Hort. Trans. vol. 7. p. 242. 
Ribes aureum. Colla Hort. Rip. app. 3. t. 1. A. nec aliorum. 
This species has no doubt been confounded by Botanists 
with R. aureum, with which it agrees in many respects. 
It has, however, been distinguished by M. Colla in his 
third Appendix to the Catalogue of Plants cultivated in his 
Garden at Ripuli; but we think he errs in supposing it to 
be the type of R. aureum, as may, perhaps, be shewn by 
an examination of the history of that species. R. aureum 
was first described by Pursh, from specimens collected in 
the Missouri country by Lewis and Clarke, and from plants 
which he saw growing in the Gardens of England. Now, 
although it is very possible that the specimens referred to 
by Pursh as having been seen by him, were R. tenuiflorum, 
yet he chiefly relied upon the garden plant for his descrip- 
tion and characters. That the garden plant seen by Pursh 
was the same species as that figured at t. 125 of this work, 
there can be no doubt, it having been the only one in our 
Gardens when that Botanist was in England. The 
R. tenuiflorum was not introduced before 1824, when 
plants of it were obtained fróm an American Nurseryman 
by the Horticultural Society. Supposing Pursh to have 
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* See fol. 1237. 
