Berberidaceae. Barberry Family. 
Shrubs or herbse Leaves alternate, simple or compound and often 
spiny. Flowers perfect, regular. Sepals 6 in two whorls, petal-like. 
Petals 6 in two whorls, each with two glands at the base. Stamens as 
many as and opposite the petals; anthers opening by two uplifted flape> 
like valves. Ovary 1, superior, l-chembered. Fruit a capsule or berry. 
Mahonia Nutt. Oregon Grape. 
Evergreen shrubs or undersnrabe with yellow wood. Leaves alternate, » 
compound, spinescent, teeth Blowers yellow, in racemes which are 
fascicled in the axils of stiffish cbractss. Sepals petal-like, subtended 
by 3 smaller bractlets. Petals bifid at the apex. Stigma peltate. Fruit 
a berrye 
Oo Leaflets commonly 11-17; flower clusters apical, 
sheathed by a series of prominent rigid bracts 
42-5 cme long jf. Me nervosa | 
o Leaflets 3-9; flower clusters axillary or apical; 
4 bracts 5-6 mms long, not prominent 
Erect, branching shrubs; leaflets 7-9, usually 
(glossy on the upper surface 2 Me aquifoliu 
Low, reclining undershrub, little or not at all 
Gbranched$ leaves tufted, leaflets 5-7, commonly 
©, dull green 3. Me repens 
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