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BEllBERIS* Aquifolium. 

 Holly-leaved Berherrij. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYKIA. 



Nat. ord. Berberide.e Juss. {Introduction to the natural system, of 

 Botany, p. 30.) 



BERBERIS.—Supn), vol. 12. fol. 1176. 



B. Aqtiifolium ; foliis 2-4-iugis cum impare, fbliolis ovato-lanceolatis re- 



pando-deiitatis lucidis rcticulato-venosis, dentibus utrimiue 7-14 spiiiosis, 



racemis fasciculatis cerruiis. 

 Beiberis Aquifolium. Pursh fi. amer. sept. 1. p. 219. t. 4. Nuttall gen. 



of north am. pi. Hooker fi. boreal, amer. 1. 29. cxcluso synonymo 



B. repentis. 

 ? Berberis pinnata. Hooker I. c. 

 Berberis nervosa. Pursh I. c. quoad fiores. 

 Mahonia Aquifolium. De Cand. syst. 2. p. 18. Prodr. 1. 108. 

 Mahonia diversifolia. Siueet's British fiower-gardcn. 



Frutex erectus, foliis valdi onustus. GemmoQ v. Alabastra squamis 

 membranaceis, deciduis. Folia pinnata, se7npervirentia, lucida, 2-4-juga, 

 cum impare ; foliola sessilia, oblonyo-ovata, v. ovato-lanccohita , spinoso- 

 dentata, rcpanda, dentibus 7 -\ 4 utrinque, venis reticulatim ordinatis ; pctiolo 

 continuo, hand 7iodis tuynidis articulatim divisis interrupto. Racemi tcr- 

 minales, multifiori, fasciculati, cernui. Fiores lutci. Sepala 6, patcntia, 

 quorum tria extcriora minora, dorso coccinea, extiis bracteolis tribus stipata. 

 Petala 6, apice bidentata, intus glandulosa. 



A native of North-west America, where it was originally 

 discovered by Mr. Menzies, and more recently by INIr. 

 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 



* Sec fol. 1176. 



