lucid surface of its leaves, which, when they first appear 

 in the spring, are of a delicate reddish cast, but become a 

 deep rich green towards the autumn. 



It is perfectly hardy, requiring no protection even in 

 the most severe weather : it seems disposed to produce 

 fruit, in which case it will be easy to increase it; but 

 otherwise it will long continue a plant of much rarity, 

 because of the difficulty of making it strike from layers, 

 the only way in which cultivators succeed in propagating 

 either this or B. fascicularis. In the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden, where our drawing was made, it grows equally 

 well both in peat among American plants, and in commoQ 

 garden soil. The flowering season is March and April. 



From B. Aquifolium, we distinguished, at fol. 1176, a 

 pinnated Berberry, sold in the Nurseries of North America, 

 by the name of B. repens. This very distinct species has 

 since been referred to the subject of the present article, 

 without being considered even as a variety. They are, 

 nevertheless, so diff'erent, that it may be doubted whether 

 any two species of the genus are more truly distinct. 

 B. repens is a dwarf, glaucous-leaved plant, creeping very 

 much at its roots, and therefore propagated easily : its 

 leaves have a surface destitute of all polish ; the outline 

 of its leaflets is roundish-oblong ; and there is nothing of 

 a repand character in its dentations, which are also much 

 less spiny. 



B. Aquifolium is much more like B. fascicularis, a native 

 of California and Mexico ; but the latter is known by its 

 dull-green leaves, glaucous beneath, the leaflets of which 

 are always more than 4, smaller, and more taper-pointed. 



As B. fascicularis is constitutionally so impatient of 

 cold as to require protection in our mildest winters, we 

 cannot help doubting whether the Nutka and other northern 

 specimens referred to that species in the Flora Boreali- 

 Americana, are not rather small-leaved states of B. Aqui- 

 folium, especially as the latter is known to grow in Nutka. 

 Had the specimens been named by any Botanist less 

 accurate and experienced than Dr. Hooker, we should 

 have felt persuaded that such was really the fact. 



J. L. 



