Tas. 7419. 
RIBES sracrrosum. 
Native of Western North America. 
Nat. Ord. Saxrrracea.—Tribe Ripesiee. 
Genus Rises, Linn. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 654.) 
Ripgs (Ribesia) bracteosum; fruticosum, inerme, glaberrimum, glandulosum, 
foliis amplis 5-7-lobatis, lobis ovatis lanceolatisve acutis v. acuminatis 
grosse serratis, petiolis elongatis, racemis elongatis erectis ascendentibusve 
multifloris, bracteis persistentibus linearibus spathulatisve infimis 
foliaceis, floribus flavidis, calycis lobis oblongis obtusis petalis spathulatis 
triplo longioribus, staminibus petalis aquilongis, baccis atris glandulosis 
polyspermis. 
R. bracteosum, Doug?l. in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. vol. i. p. 233. Bongard, Veg. 
Sitcha, p. 188. Torr. & Gray Fl. N. Am. vol.i. p. 550. Haton & Wright 
Man. Bot. p. 395. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. vol. ii. p. 201. Rothr. Fl. Alask. p. 446. 
S. Wats. Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 206. Mawimov, in Bull. Acad. Petersb. 
vol. xix. p. 253. (Mel. Biol. vol. ix. p. 222.) 
It is rather singular that so fine and hardy a plant as 
the subject of this plate, which was discovered nearly 
seventy years ago, and is common in what has long been 
an English colony, should never have been figured in any 
work, or found its place in our shrubberies of England ; 
for, so far as I can ascertain, it is in cultivation nowhere 
but at Kew, where there is no history of its introduction. 
It was discovered by David Douglas in 1826, at the mouth 
of the Columbia River in Oregon, and has since been found 
along the Pacific coast of North America from Mendocino 
county in California to Sitka in Alaska, a range of upwards 
of 1200 miles. Not a few other shrubs besides trees and 
herbaceous plants extend through as many or more degrees 
of latitude on that coast, due no doubt to the equability 
of its temperature. 
R. bracteosum forms a handsome shrub when five to six 
feet high, with bright green leaves like those of the maple, 
which attain a breadth of eight to ten inches. It flowers 
at Kew in May. 
Deser.—Quite glabrous, or minutely pubescent on the 
raceme, and sparsely glandular. Stem four to ten feet 
June Ist, 1895, : 
