988 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART Ill. 
C. Flowers deep red. Fruit black. 
g@ 39. R.sancui’NEuM Pursh. The bloody, or red, flowered, Currant. 
Identification. Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 164. ; Don’s Mill, 3. p. 191. 
Synonymes. R. malyaceum Smith in Rees’s Cycl.; Calobétrya sanguinea Spach. 
Engravings. Hort. Trans., 7. t. 13.; Bot. Reg., t. 1349.; Swt. Fl-Gard., n. s., t. 109.5 and our 
fig. 739 
Spec. Char.,§c. Leaves cordate, somewhat 5-lobed, serrated, veiny, smoothish 
above, but clothed with villous tomentum beneath. Racemes drooping, 
pubescent, twice the length of the leaves. Calyx 
tubularly campanulate, with oblong, obtuse, spread- 
ing segments, exceeding the petals, which are red, 
and quite entire. Bracteas obovate-spathulate. 
Berries turbinate, hairy. This is, perhaps, the 
most ornamental species of the genus, bearing a 
profusion of large racemes of deep rose-coloured 
flowers, and is, therefore, well adapted for orna- 
menting shrubberies and pleasure-grounds. The 
berries are of a bluish black, and insipid; resem- 
bling a bilberry more than either a currant or a _ 24 
gooseberry. (Don’s Mill., iii. p.191.) A native WO / 
of the north-west coast of America, in abundance, B: 
from lat. 38° to 52° N.; usually growing in rocky 
situations, by the sides of streams. A shrub, 4 ft. 
to 8 ft. high, flowering in April. Introduced in 1826, and forming by far the 
most ornamental species of the genus. It is easily propagated, and as hardy 
as the common black currant. It flowers profusely; and, coming into 
bloom early in the season, forms the most splendid bush to be seen in 
British shrubberies, from the middle of April to the middle of May. A 
great many seeds were sent over by Mr. Douglas, a number of which were 
distributed by the Horticultural Society; and the plants produced from 
them have varied in the colour of their flowers, from pale pink to deep red. 
The plants, also, seed freely in this country ; and hence a number of varie- 
ties have been originated by nurserymen, independently of R. (s.) malva- 
ceum and #. (s.) glutinosum, which differ from the species, not only in the 
shades of colour of their flowers, but also in their leaves. The variety 
which has the darkest-coloured flowers is R. s, atro-rubens. 

Varieties. 
xz R. (s.) 2 glutindsum Benth. Hort. Trans., 2d ser. 1. part 6.; R. au- 
gastum Dougl. MS. and our fig. 740., has the foliage destitute of 
down, and slightly viscous. The racemes are rather larger than in 
the species, and of a very pale rose-colour. 


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% R, (s.) 3 malvdcewm Benth., |. c., and our fig. 741., has the leaves rough 
and hispid on the upper side, and clothed underneath with a whitish 
cottony down. The racemes of flowers are shorter and closer ; and 
each flower is almost sessile on the common stalk. In colour, the 
flowers are rather darker than those of R.(s.)glutindsum, and have 
more of a lilac tinge. 
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