512 Account of some new Species of the Genus Ribes. 



no true pulp. The flavour of the berries is musky or mawkish, 

 and so disagreeable that two or three are sufficient to produce 

 vomiting. No animal, as far as I know, touches it, excepting 

 a species of Myoxus, which feeds on the leaves and berries in 

 summer, and on the bark during the winter months 



It is an inhabitant only of the subalpine range of the highest 

 mountains, abounding in dry fissures of limestone rocks, 

 flowering in May, and ripening its fruit in August. On the 

 hills around the Kettle Falls on the Colombia River, in 48° 

 37' 40" N. Latitude, 118° W. Longitude, at an elevation of 

 8000 feet above the level of the sea, it forms a principal part 

 of the brush-wood, and is equally plentiful on the western 

 declivities of the rocky mountains, between the parallels of 

 46° and 52° N. Latitude. 



This magnificent species ought to have a place in the 

 gardens of the curious, were it only on account of its dissimi- 

 larity to any of the genus. 



I brought seeds of this species to England in October 1827. 

 The plants flowered last April, in the Garden of the Society, 

 but rather weakly, being only one year old.* 



3. R. cereum : inerme, foliis subrotundis obtuse trilobis crenatis viscidis, 

 racemis 3-5-floris pendulis pubescentibus Jongitudine foliorum, calycibus tubu- 

 latis laciniis ovatis reflexis: petala subrenifbrmia duplo excedentibus, bracteis 

 cimeiformibus apice dentatis, baccis rubris glabris. 



This bush is of more humble stature and slender habit than 

 the one last mentioned, growing erect, about five or six feet 

 high, with white smooth bark on the old branches. The 

 young shoots which are curved and flexible, are covered with 



* This species is now nearly lost to the Garden. 



