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in a (Iry state, is of a pale but brig;lit gpreen above, glaucous beneath, and perfectly plane ; the teeth frequently 

 reduced to cilia. If I am correct in referring this to B* pinnata, (and there is but one specimen in 

 fructification in tlie collection,) its berries are oval, deep blue. Called by Lewis* Company's people. Moun- 

 tain Holly. 



3. B. Aquifolmm; foliis bi-trijugis, jugo iuferiore a pctioli basi distantc, foliolis ovatis 

 approximatis spinaloso-dcntatis basi cordatis luiinerviisj racemis erectis confertisj filamentis 

 bidentatis. — Pursh, FL Am, v, 1. />. 219, t 4. — Malionia AquifoUum, Nutt Gen* v* 1. p, 

 212. Be Cand. Prodr. v, 1. p. 108.— B. repens. BoL Reg. t 11T6, 



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Hab. On the Great Rapids of the Columbia River, among rocks in rich vegetable soil. M. Lewis. Com- 

 mon along the coast of the Pacific, from lat. 40*^ to 49°, and throughout the open woody parts of the 

 Columbia, from its confluence with the sea to its source among the Mouutains in lut. 52°, loug. 118°. 

 Douglas. Menzies. Scouler. — An elegant shrub, 3-G feet high, and growing most luxuriantly in light sandy 

 soil by the banks of rivers. Berry purple, globular, 2-5-seeded; one or two on the raceme generally 

 abortive, and smaller than the others. Nearly allied to the last, but with broader, more cordate, more rigid, 

 and more waved leaflets, much more crowded upon the rachis. Both have a single nerve, or mid-rib, with 

 several lateral nerves proceeding diagonally from the sides, and these are united by reticulated veins. 



4, B. nervosa; foliis elongatis 5-6 jugis, jugo inferiore a petiolo distante, foliolis ovato- 

 acuminatis remotis spinoso-dentatis 3-5 nerviis, racemis elongatis, filamentis 2 dentatis. 

 Pursh, FL Am, v. \.p, 219. ^. 5, (excl. f\g. florum, quas ad B.Aquifoltiimpenlnet) — Mahonia 

 nervosa. Nutt. — De Cand. Prodr, v, I, p. 108. — M. glumacea. De Cand. Prodr, v. I. p, 109. 



Hab. Fii'st discovered by Mr. Menzies, at the mouth of the Columbia. Fort Vancouver. Scouler. 

 Common in shady pine forests on the coast of the Pacific, having the same range, from north to south, as 

 B. AquifoUum, but it is not found east of the woody country that skirts the coast. D. Douglas, — This is well 

 distinguished from both the preceding species by the 3 or 3 nerves springing nearly parallel with each other 

 from the base of the leaflet, which, moreover, altogether wants the close network-like vciningof the others. 

 The leaves, too, are much longer, as well as the racemes; and the flowers much larger. Berries deep blue. 

 Bracteae, at the base of the peduncles, several, large, convolute, pungent. I retain the name of nervosa^ in 

 preference to glumacea, because it is the oldest and most expressive appellation, notwithstanding that Pursh 

 in his plate has figured the flowers of B. AquifoUum with the leaves of nervosa, thus leading De Candollc 

 into the mistake of supposing that his B. glumacea was a species distinct from it. The genus Mahonia 

 cannot be retained. The teeth of the filaments, which were supposed mainly to characterise it, I have shown 

 to exist equally in B. heterophylla, (see Exotic Flora, t. li.); and the glands are present on the petals. 

 Even the simple-leaved species, as they are called, have the leaves jointed upon the footstalk, like the leaf 

 of the Orange, and such a leaf, as is well known, is but a pinnated one, reduced to its most simple state. 



2. LEONTICE. Linn. 



Sepala 6, extus nuda. Petala 6, intus basi squamulam gcrcntia. Capmda vesicaria, 

 2-4 sperma. Semina in fundo capsula3 inserta, globosa, — Ilerbae radice tuherosa, foliis 

 varie sectis, calycihus scepe coloratis, DC, 



(Div. CAULOPHVLLU^r, Mich. — Caps, vix inflata, per maturitatem dcmum rupta, Se- 

 mina ideo exserta, interdim baccata. Folium cauUnum unicum, sub raceim situm, 

 petiolo ah ipsa basi S-parllto, ramults trlbus, scymenta 3-5 gerentibus. DC) 



1. L, thalictroides ; folio caulino solltario, petiolo e basi fere tripartito, scgmentis obo- 

 vatis apice grosse incisis acuminatls.— Z/m Sp, PL p. 448. De Cand. Prodr. v. hp. 110. 



