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3. 
PIPER—BERBERIS AQUIFOLIUM AND,BERBERIS REPENS. 439 
Pursh’s original technical descriptions of the two plants (loc. cit.), 
to which it will be necessary to refer, are as follows: 
2. B. sarmentosa, inermis; foliis pinnatis: foliolis sub-3-jugis 
oblongis repando-dentatis venosis, petalis bidentatis. 
B. pinnata. Herb. Banks. 
On the great rapids of Columbia River, among rocks, in rich 
vegetable soil. M. Lewis. kh. April, May, v.s. in Herb. 
Lewis, Flowers yellow, in large clusters; berries dark pur- 
ple, eatable; called by Lewis’s company Mountain-holly. 
Caulis fruticosus, laxe ramosus; ramis sarmentosis, procum- 
bentibus. Jolia sempervirentia alterna, petiolata impari- 
pinnata. Foliola 3-juga, opposita, sessilia, impari-petiolata, 
oblongo-ovata, basi oblique truncata margine cartilaginea 
repando-dentata, coriacea, utrinque glabra, laevigata, 
nitida: dentibus aculeatis. Petioli teretes, glabri. Racemi 
congesti, bracteati, e gemma precedentis anni. Flores aurei. 
Bracteae caduceae, solitariae, subcordatae, acuminatae, 
membraceae. Calyx triplex, deciduus, patens: exterior mini- 
mus, 3-phyllus: foliolis ovatis, acutis; medius_ triplo 
longior: foliolis suborbiculatis, membranaceis, nervosis ; 
interior longior: foliolis ovalibus, membranaceis, nervosis. 
Petala 6. suberecta, oblonga, apice inciso-bidentata, vix 
longitudine calycis. Filamenta 6. corollae breviora, crassa, 
medio bidentata: dentibus oppositis. Antherae  bilobae, 
crassae. Germen superum, ovatum. Stigma sessile, 3-lobum. 
Bacea 3-locularis, 3-sperma, abortione interdum mono- 
sperma, 
B. sarmentosa, inermis; foliis pinnatis: foliolis 6-jugis ovato- 
oblongis repando-serratis, sub-5-nervibus, petalis integris. 
In the same situations. v.s. in Herb. Lewis. 
The specific difference excluded, the description of the preced- 
ing species is applicable in every other respect, and together 
with another in the collection of A. B. Lambert, Esq., col- 
lected in Napaul by Mr. Buchanon, forms a new division of 
the genus, with pinnated leaves; which probably may be- 
come a new genus, whenever the fruit is perfectly known, as 
the statement I have given of it was taken from a single and 
imperfect berry. 
Aquifolium. 
nervosa. 
Although Lewis had clearly not seen the fruit of either of the two 
“mountain holleys” on the lower Columbia River he nevertheless 
brought back seeds of a species of Berberis, from which plants were 
grown in Philadelphia by McMahon and later introduced into gen- 
eral cultivation. Nuttall took this cultivated plant to be Berberis 
aquifolium Pursh and in his Genera of North American Plants ® de- 
scribes it as follows: 
*2:211. 1818. 
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