Account of some new Species of the Genus Ribes. 509 



1. R. sanguineum : inerme, foliis cordatis sub-quinquelobis serratis venosis 

 supra glabriusculis subtus villoso-tomentosis, racemis laxis pubescentibus foliis 

 duplo longioribus, calycibus tubulato-campanulatis : laciniis linearibus obtusis 

 patentibus petala integerrima excedentibus, bracteis obovato-spatulatis, baccis 

 turbinatis hirsutis. 



R. sanguineum. Pursh. Fl. Am. Sep. 1, p. 164. 



This forms an erect branching bush, exceeding six feet in 

 height, with red smooth branches, the younger twigs covered 

 with short, brown, bristly hairs, which fall away along with 

 the thin deciduous bark of the first year. The leaves are 

 heart-shaped, more than two inches long, one and a half 

 broad, dark green above, hoary and downy beneath, on foot- 

 stalks of equal length with the leaves, which are more or less 

 pubescent and glandular, having conspicuous ciliated or 

 slightly fringed stipules. Flower-stalks about four inches 

 long, lax, more pubescent than the leaves. Calyx half an 

 inch long, the tube nearly bell-shaped, short in proportion to 

 the spreading segments, pink or crimson. Petals obovate, 

 one third shorter than the limb, white, becoming of the same 

 colour as the calyx after they have been some days expanded. 

 Stamens of the same length as the petals. Anthers white. 

 Style slightly cloven. Berry turbinate, three-eighths of an 

 inch long, brownish black, hairy, having a tough, leathery 

 thick skin, with numerous, small, angular seeds, adhering toge- 

 ther by a small portion of limpid viscid mucus, and completely 

 destitute of the pulpy substance peculiar to most species of 

 this tribe. 



So long ago as the year 1787, my esteemed friend Archi- 

 bald Menzies, Esq. during his first voyage round the world, 

 discovered this species near Nootka Sound, and, subsequently 



