RI'BES SANGUI'NEUM. 
CRIMSON-FLOWERED CURRANT. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
GROSSULACE*. 
Native of 
Heig-lit. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America. 
8 feet. 
May. 
Perennial. 
in 1826. 
No. 377. 
Ribas, whence has been derived our Ribes, is a 
word of Arabian origin, which was used by the East- 
ern Physicians as the name of a medicinal plant. Its 
origin has occasioned its adjective being formed in 
the neuter. Sanguineum, from the Latin sanguis, 
blood; from the colour of its flowers. 
The great beauty, and the hardy character, of 
several species of Currant, which have lately been 
introduced to this country from America, render 
them indispensable ornaments of every garden and 
shrubbery. The Ribes aureum,we figured under No. 
189. The Ribes sanguineum, now given, is, in respect 
to its flowers, a distinct and beautiful species; and a 
third, the Ribes speciosum, whose flowers somewhat 
resemble those of the Fuschia, whence it has been 
called the Fuschia-flowered Currant, we intend lay- 
ing before our readers at no very distant period. 
Having, as we all have had, from childhood, so 
intimate an intercourse with the red, the white, and 
black currants, appendages to every cottage, and 
natives of our own country ; and seeing these stran- 
gers to be so very similar in their general habit and 
appearance, fancy would alinost persuade us they 
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