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RIBES^' sanguineum. 

 Purple-flowered Currant. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Grossulaces;. 

 RIBES.—Supra, vol. 2. fol. 125. 



* Inermia. Currants. 



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

 glabriusculis subti^s villoso-tomentosis, racemis laxis pubescentibus foliis 

 duplo longioribus, calycibus tubulato-campanulatis : Jaciniis linearibus 

 obtusis patentibus petala integerrima excedentibus, bracteis obovato- 

 spatulatis, baccis turbinatis hirsutis. — Douglas in Transactions of the 

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



R. sanguineum. Pursh Ji. am. sept. 1. 164. Smith in Rees cycl. in I. 

 R'umer et Schultes syst. veg. 5. 497. 



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. 

 Long 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 is 

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

 the common Currant of the Gardens, and bears a vast profusion of 

 bunches of the most lovely purplish-red flowers, during the end of 

 April and beginning of May, remaining in perfection full three 

 weeks. 



Increased readily by cuttings, and requiring no particular manage- 

 ment ; the only points that appear to demand attention being that 

 it should be planted in dry situations, but not in peat soil, as it is 

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

 to it. 



* See fol. 1237. 

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