similarity of its flowers to that of several species of Fuschia, which has 
led some botanists to insist upon an affinity between the Currant tribe 
and Evening-primrose tribe, to which the genus Fuschia belongs. The 
closeness of this affinity is questioned by others, (see Lindley’s Natu- 
ral System of Botany, 2nd Ed. p. 240.) The genus Ribes cannot be 
confounded with the genus Fuschia, as the flower of the former has 5 sta- 
mens, of the latter 8. This species is a native of the West coast of North 
America, in North California and Montery ; apparently also of Mexico. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. This species was first 
raised in England from seeds sent by Mr. Collie, at Montery, in 1828, 
to the garden of that zealous patron of botany and horticulture, A. B. 
Lambert, Esq. of Boynton House, Wiltshire, where it flowered in 1831. 
Our drawing was made at the Nursery of the Messrs. Pope of Hands- 
worth, from a standard plant in the open ground, where its gracefully 
pendent branches, decked with innumerable flowers, as with glittering 
rubies, shone brilliantly in the sunny rays of May and June. It iscer- 
tainly one amongst the most showy of small flowering shrubs, and is 
admirably adapted for training against a wall or trellis, where it will 
attain the height of six or eight feet. Although of deciduous charac- 
ter, it has in some degree the advantage of an evergreen, on account of 
the perpetual growth of small leaves from almost every bud along its 
slender branches, which afterwards contrast prettily with its crim- 
son flowers. Nor is the growth of these suspended even in winter, but 
by their continual expansion gladden and refresh our eyes with the 
pleasing verdure of Spring, in the midst of the wintry chills of Decem- 
ber and January. It is very readily propagated by cuttings. We do 
not know whether any culinary use can be made of the berries, which 
may possibly ripen well in the more southern parts of this country. 
DERIVATION OF THE NAMEs. 
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Ribes is of A gin, g pplied to a species of rhubarb, now 
known under the name Rheum Ribes (Linnenus,) but which Tragus thought was 
applied to a species of gooseberry. Specicsum shewy, from its attractive ap- 
pearance. 
SyNONYMES. 
Rises srecrosem. Pursh. Flora Americana Septentrionalis Vol. I, ap- 
pendix, p.731. D.Don in Sweet's British Flower Garden, t. 149. Decandolle. 
Prodromus Systematis Universalis Regni vegetabilis, pars III, p. 478. 
Sprengel Systema Vegetabilium, Vol. I. p,812. Botanical Register, Vol. 18, 
t. 1557. Botanic agazine, 3530. _ 
Rises stamineuM. Smith in Ree’s Cyclopedia, under Ribes. 
Rises ruscuromes. Berlandier Memoires de la Societe physi 
Vol. IM, part 2, p. 43. eee 
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