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RIbES* tenuifldrum. 

 Scarlet-leaved Currant. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGVNIA. 



Nat. ord. Grossulace^. 

 RIBES. — Suprd, vol. 2. fol. 125. 



R. tenuijlorum ; inerme, foliis subrotundis trilobis farinosis ; lobis apice 

 obtus^ dentatis, racemis pendulis multifloris, calycibus tubulatis glabris 

 pedicello longioribus coloratis, petalis integerrimis calycis laciniis lineari- 

 bus obtusis duplo brevioribus, baccis glabris. 



Ribes tenuiflorum. Lindley in Hort. Trans, vol. 1 . p. 242. 



Ribes aureum. Colla Hort. Rip. app. 3. t. I. A. nee aliorum. 



This species hos 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 from an American Nurseryman 

 by the Horticultural Society. Supposing Pursh to have 



See fol. 1237. 



