the Horticultural Society in 1822, whence it has been libe- 
rally distributed. It bears its bright yellow, copious spikes 
of blossoms, which are beautifully nestled in the foliage, in 
the very early spring. Our figure was made in 1841, at the 
Glasgow Botanic Garden, from plants reared from seeds 
sent from the Columbia by Mr. Totmre. It is common in 
shady pine forests on the coast of the Pacific, from N. lat. 
40° to 49°, but is not found East of the woody country that 
skirts the coast. 
I retain the original name of Mr. Pursu ; for, although 
he erred in representing the flowers of B. Aquifolium (sepa- 
rate indeed from the leafy branch) on the same plate with 
the foliage of B. nervosa, there can be no question of the 
identity of his plant. 
Descr. B. nervosa forms a beautiful evergreen shrub, of 
low stature, but bearing many short branches clothed with 
long pinnated foliage. These branches have numerous 
large, imbricated, lanceolate, acuminate, and pungent 
brown scales or stipules, and similar scales clothe the base 
of the peduncles. Leaves varying much in length, from six 
inches to a foot: the petiole below is for some inches 
naked, the rest having from three to six or seven ovate, 
sessile, acuminated, harsh, rigid leaflets, with an odd one, 
strongly nerved, the nerves three to five from the very base, 
the margins repando-dentate, the teeth sharp and unequal, 
almost spinulose. Racemes four to five inches long, two or 
three from one point, clothed with densely placed, bright 
yellow flowers, from the apex almost to the base. Pedicels 
very short, each subtended by a small, deciduous bractea. 
Sepals unequal, three outer ones small, and often tinged 
with red, three inner larger, all ovate, Petals equal, oval, 
two-toothed at the apex, and with two small glands near 
the base. Stamens with a tooth on each side below the 
anther, as in this ““ Manonra”-group of Berseris, but which, 
as well as the glands of the petals, are, unfortunately, 
omitted by the artist, an omission not detected till it was 
too late to have it corrected. 
Fig. 1.2. Front and back view of a Flower. 3. Petal and Stamens: 
magnified (the teeth of the Filament and the Glands of the Petal are, 
through carelessness, omitted). 
