erectee, margine etlerna rubente loculorum dehiscentes ; pollen ochroleucum. 
Stigma viride, bifidum, quale corolla. Bacce glabree esculenta. 
A native of North America, where it has been found in 
Upper Louisiana on the banks of the Missouri, by Messrs. 
Bradbury and Nuttall; also on the other side of the Rocky 
Mountains on the banks of the Columbia by Captains Lewis 
and Clarke, in the celebrated journey across the American 
continent to the Pacific sea, performed by those officers at 
the order of the government of the United States. In Mr, 
A. B. Lambert’s Herbarium: there are specimens: from each 
of these quarters, which seem to differ in no other respect, 
than that some of those from the Atlantic side of the 
Rocky Mountains are more conspicuously pubescent, and _ 
with larger bractes than those from the side next the Pacific. 
With us: this prettty shrub has as yet no other value than 
that which arises from a colour and fragrance of blossom 
unlooked for in this genus; but in its native place it is 
highly prized for the excellence of the fruit, which is said 
to be larger than any of our more common garden sorts, 
The bush is perfectly ‘iardy, and seems to thrive in almost 
any. situation, blossoming freely about the middle of May ; 
but. no fruit has been obtained during the five years it has 
been known in our gardens, the flowers dropping off pre-. 
maturely. at the constricted joint below the germen. In size 
and: manner of growth it resembles our common currants ; 
but the foliage is considerably smaller, of a bright green, 
unwrinkled, indented only at the top of the three lobes into 
which it.is. divided, and in our specimen its surface on both 
sides was without pubescence, but, the edge shortly ciliated. 
Flowen-bunches: numerous, scattered, solitary, produced as 
usual’ in the’ genus from a common bud with the foliage; 
flowers 10-20, quite smooth, nearly an inch long, of a bright, 
golden, yellaw,: disposed.on; the: upper half of the peduncle, 
inthe form of a thyrze; peduncle villous, almost upright;, 
pedicles 3-4 times shorter’ than the flower, separated’ by’ 
foliaceous entire gradually. decreasing bractes. Cal. tubular, 
and’ slightly. curved... Peta/s pale yellow, changing at the: 
top to a bright pink-colour. Stamens equal to the petals. 
Stigma deep green, bifid., — — AE pet 
‘Introduced by Mr; Nuttall. The drawing was made at 
Mr. Kuight’s nursery, in the King’s Road, Chelsea, ” 
@ The flower dissected vertically. 
