confounded the two species, which is extremely probable, 

 yet the old garden plant should be taken as that which 

 he more particularly intended to describe. 



The names given by the American Gardeners to this 

 species, such as Lewis's Scarlet Currant, Lewis's Yellow 

 Currant, seem to attest its origin, and make it probable 

 that it had been raised from seeds collected in Lewis and 

 Clarke's expedition. This is rendered still more credible 

 by its being the species found by Mr. Douglas in North- 

 west America, if we may judge from the specimens in his 

 Herbarium, and from plants in the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden, raised from his seeds. This being the case, the 

 remarks made by us in the Horticultural Transactions, upon 

 Mr. Douglas's authority, concerning the excellent quality of 

 the fruit of Ribes aureum when growing " upon high dry 

 limestone rocks," should be applied to Ribes tenuiflorum. 



Upon further examination of the supposed variety of 

 this species, the leaves of which change to scarlet in the 

 autumn, we now incline to refer it rather to R. aureum, if, 

 indeed, it be not a species by itself. 



About the same time as M. Colla published his ob- 

 servations on this species, we had introduced it into a report 

 made to the Horticultural Society upon the rare plants of 

 their Garden ; from which communication we take the 

 liberty of making the following extract : — 



" In habit this species is more erect than R. aureum, 

 and has the young wood more thinly clothed with leaves : 

 its whole appearance is also paler during the early part of 

 the year. — The leaves are nearly round, 3- or 5-lobed, when 

 young covered with a kind of mealy bloom, when more 

 advanced cordate at the base, and at all times, in the 

 plants that I have examined, wholly destitute of pubescence. 

 The flowers are not more than half the size of those of 

 R. aureum, and have entire, not notched petals. The fruit 

 is the size of the Red Currant, with a thick skin, and a 

 dense mucilaginous pulp, of an agreeable flavour, but pos- 

 sessing little acidity, and far inferior to our cultivated 

 Currants. The berries ripen about the middle of July. 



*' There are two varieties, the one bearing black, and 

 the other yellow, fruit ; the former changes from yellow to 

 red, and finally acquires a deep blackish purple hue ; 

 the latter alwavs retains its yellow colour." 



J. L. 



