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3. B. californicum Jepson n. sp. Stems rigidly erect, 3 to 6 (or 10^ feet 

 liigli, littlr l)raurlit'il ; leaves IVo to 4 ineiies long; leaflets 5 to 9, ovate, 1 to 2 

 inches long, very pale or glaneescent, strongly reticulate, repandly dentate, the 

 8 to 12 teeth ending in long stout spines, their length I3 to % the breadth of 

 the body of the blade, the blade so strongly undulate that the spines are presented 

 in nearly all directions; racemes 1 to 2 inches long, the pedicels mostly 3 to 9 

 lines long. — (C'aules erecti, rigidi, 3-6 (vel 10) ped. alti ; folia ii/^-4 poll, longa, 

 5-9-fnliolata ; foliola ovata, 1-2 poll, longa, sub-glauca, per-reticulata, per- 

 imdulata, dentibus spinosis; racemi 1-2 poll, longi.) 



Di-y rocky interior foothills, 300 to 1500 feet or up to 6000 feet on desert 

 ridges : Inner Coast Range, southward to cisniontane Southern California ; appar- 

 ently also in southern Sierra Nevada foothills. 



Locs. — Pelle.io Hills, iiw. Solauo Co., Jepson (type) ; North Fork Lewis Creek, Priest 

 Valley, Jcpnon 2672; ucar San Carlos Peak, Brtwcr 787; Ranclio Cantua, Cantua Creek, S. C. 

 LiUis ; East Fork Kaweah River, Jepson; Loma Paloma, Hall 7083 (spines of leaflets less 

 prominent); Eaton Canon, San Gabriel Mts., Pcirson .54; Slieep Creek, San Antonio Mts.. 

 Hall: Seven Oaks, San Bernardino Mts., Geo. B. Grant 40i>6; Blooniiugton, San Bernardino 

 Valley, Parijih 4081; ; Ijetw. Julian and Cuyamaea (Bull. N. Y. Bot. Card. 6:360). 



Refs. — Berberis californicum Jepson. Odostemon (Jicti/ota Abranis, Bull, N. Y. Bot. 

 Gard. 6:360 (1910). Probably also Odostemon faseicuhiris Abrams, I.e. 



4. B. pumila Greene. Stems erect, rigid, 5 to 14 inches high; leaflets 5 (3 

 to 7), l}roadly ovate, whitish, glaueescent or dull green, 1^4 to 214 inches long, 

 the ratlier coarse or medium-sized teeth about 10 to IS, spine-tipped; racemes 

 dense, 1 to IV-; inches long; berries blue, small, oblong. 



Inner North Coa.st Range and higher Sierra Nevada foothills; north to 

 southern Oregon ; 3000 to 5000 feet. 



Loes. — Bartlett Mt., Lake Co., Curran ; Indian Creek, Siskiyou Mts., Jepson 2948; Clover 

 Creek, Shasta Co., M. S. Baker 464; Downieville, Eastwood; Mt. Zion, Amador Co., Hansen 

 219; Five-mile Creek, Columbia, A. L. Grant 634; Belmont Mine, Mariposa Co., Congdon; 

 Old Colony Mill, Sequoia Park, Jepson 628. 



Refs. — Berberis pumil.\. Greene, Pitt. 2:161 (1891), type loo. inner North Coast Range 

 in Lake Co., as near as may be determined. Mahonia pmnila Fedde in Engler Jahrb. 31:82 

 (1901). 



5. B. repens Lindl. Creeping Barberry. Stems ascending from a creeping 

 or stolon-like base, simple, 4 to 6 inches high ; leaflets 3 to 5, plane or nearly so, 

 dull above, paler beneath, with many small teeth and weak spines; racemes 

 rather dense, 2 to 21/2 inches long ; berries blue-glaucous. 



Del Norte Co. to Modoc Co., thence south to Inyo Co. North to British 

 Columbia and east to the Rocky Mts. 



Locs.— Big Flat, Del Norte Co., Jepson 298.') ; Mt. Eddy, Copeland 3810; Edgewood, 

 Siskiyou Co., J. W. Kisling ; Davis Creek, Modoc Co., M. .S. Baker; Willow Creek Valley, 

 Modoc Co., a. M. Austin; Oak Creek, Inyo Co., S. W. Austin. 



Refs. — Berberis repens Lindl. Bot. Reg. pi. 1176 (1828), type from Northwest America. 

 Odostemon repens CockereU Univ. Mo. Stud. Sci. 2^:125 (1911). Mahonia repens G. Don, 

 Dichlam. 118 (183U. 



6. B. aquifolium Pursli. ilorxTAix Grape. Stems erect, 1 to 3 feet high; 

 leaves thin-coriaceous, bright-green and glossy-shining above, duller beneath; 

 leaflets jilane, 3 to 5 or 7, elliptic-ovate to oblong-ovate, 114 to 3 inches long, the 

 margin with many long slender spines ; lowest pair of leaflets remote from base 

 of petiole ; racemes fascicled in the axils and at the summit, dense, 1 to 2 inches 

 long ; berries blue, glaucous, rather large. 



North Coast Ranges, from Napa Co. to Humboldt Co. ; northern Sierra 

 Nevada fi'om Amador Co. to Modoc Co. North to British Columbia. Also called 

 Hollyleaf Barberry. * 



Locs. — Near Mt. St. Helena, Jepson; Hupa, Chandler 1277; Edgewood, J. IT. Kisling; 

 Y'reka, Butler .191; Lassen Creek, Modoc Co., Jx. if. Au.'iiin; Truckee, Sonne; Amador Co., 

 Gates. 



Var. dictyota Jepson n. comb. Erect, stout, '{. to 1 foot high, sparsely leafy; leaflet,"! 5 

 to 7, broadlv ()v:ite, prominently reticulated, shining and yellow above, paler beneath, 1 to 2Vi 

 inches long, undulate, sinuous-dentate, tlie 10 to 20 teeth with strong spines; lowest pair close 

 to base of petiole; racemes dense, % to 1 inch long. — Rocky slopes, Marysville Buttes. 



