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Purple-flowered Currant. 



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Nat, ord. Grossulaceje, 

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* Inermia. Currants. 

 R. sanguineum; inerme, foliis cordatis subquinquelobis serratis venosis supra 

 glabriusculis subtiis villoso-tomentosis, racemis laxis piibescentibus foliis 

 dupl6 longioribus, calycibus tubulato-campanulatis : laciniis linearibus 

 obtusis patentibus petala integerrima excedentibus, bracteis obovato- 

 spatulatis, baccis turbinatis hirsutis. "" ' " ^ 

 Hort.^ Soc. vol. 7. p. 509. t. 13. 

 sanguineum. Pursh 

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For many years it has been known to Botanists that the district 

 of the Columbia river, on the north-west coast of America, abounds 

 with Currants, remarkable for the great beauty of their flowers. 

 I^ong since, Ribes aureum was obtained through the United States, 

 and proved, as is well known, fully worthy of the reputation it had 

 acquired by report. The subject of the present plate has been 

 recently introduced by the Horticultural Society, and certainly i8 

 inferior in beauty to no plant yet in cultivation. It is as hardy as 



the 



vast 



""x,v.ues 01 tne most lovely purpiisti-rea nower&, uuiinj^ ^ « T 

 April and beginning of May, remaining in perfection full three 



week 



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Increased readily by cuttings, and requiring no particular manage- 

 if . 41.^ ^«i_- • / .1 i ® X-. J ^A oftonflnn heine^ that 



dry situations, but not in peat 



it is 



JPt to go off in swampy places, and peat has been found injurious 



to it. 



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