ARBORETUM NOTES. G5 
BERBERIDEZ. 
underneath; the network of veins distinctly Berberis 
apparent, but not prominent. Their margin is a 
very variable, seldom quite entire, the teeth always 
very sharp and prominent, very various in 
regularity and proportional number. Flowers 
palish yellow, numerous in lax, somewhat drooping 
branches and panicled racemes, which are longer 
than the leaves. Berries, roundish-oval, deep 
purple, covered with a dense bluish white bloom. 
BERBERIS FASCICULARIS. 
Mahonia fascicularis.—Loudon, v. I. 309. . 
A large plant in the arboretum, near the south eae 
€ast corner; planted, 1826; mever flowered; 
killed by the winter of 1860-61. 
BERBERIS AQUIFOLIUM. 
Pursh—Lindley. 
Mahonia Aquifolium.—Loudon, v.1. (309). 
This is now very common in gardens and shrub- Berberis 
berries and plantations, and well deserves all that a 
is said by Loudon and Lindley in its praise. 
There is a very good account of this plant by 
Lindley, in the Journal of the Horticultural Society, 
v. 5. p- 16. The leaves, the flowers and the fruit, 
are all beautiful. It is perfeétly hardy with us, 
having been scarcely at all hurt by the severe 
winter of 1860-61. The old leaves partially change 
to a fine deep red or sometimes even a rich 
crimson in winter. 
