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BERBERIS* Aquifólium. 
Holly-leaved Berberry. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. BERBERIDER Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of 
Botany, p. 30.) 
BERBERIS.—Supra, vol. 12. fol. 1176. 
B. Aquifolium ; folis 2-4-jugis cum impare, foliolis ovato-lanceolatis re- 
pando-dentatis lucidis reticulato-venosis, dentibus utrinque 7-14 spinosis, 
racemis fasciculatis cernuis. 
Berberis Aquifolium. Pursh fl. amer. sept. 1. p. 219. t. 4. Nuttall gen. 
of north am. pl. Hooker fl. boreal. amer. 1. 29. excluso synonymo 
B. repentis. 
? Berberis pinnata. Hooker l. c. 
Berberis nervosa. ‘Pursh l. c. quoad flores. 
Mahonia Aquifolium. De Cand. syst. 2. p. 18. Prodr. 1. 108. 
Mahonia diversifolia. Sweet’s British flower-garden. 
Frutex erectus, foliis valde onustus. Gemme v, Alabastra squamis 
membranaceis, deciduis. Folia pinnata, sempervirentia, lucida, 2-4-juga, 
cum impare; foliola sessilia, oblongo-ovata, v. ovato-lanceolata, spinoso- 
dentata, repanda, dentibus 7-14 utrinque, venis reticulatim ordinatis ; petiolo 
continuo, haud nodis tumidis articulatim divisis interrupto. Racemi ter- 
minales, multiflori, fasciculati, cernui. Flores lutei. Sepala 6, patentia, 
quorum. tria exteriora minora, dorso coccinea, extüs bracteolis tribus stipata. 
Petala 6, apice bidentata, intús glandulosa. 
A native of North-west America, where it was originally 
discovered by Mr. Menzies, and more recently by Mr. 
Douglas, who found it forming a bush five or six feet high, 
in hilly woods, from the source of the river Columbia to its 
confluence with the ocean. 
In. our Gardens it is a very ornamental evergreen, 
already two feet high, and. remarkable for the extremely 
* See fol. 1176. 
