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B.* Fremontii, Tokr. Shrub 5 to 12 feet high : leaflets 3 to 7, rigidly coriaceous, ovate to 

 oblong, uot over inch long, repaudly or siuuately l-4-toothed on each margin, strongly 

 spinesceut ; lowest pair or an articulation close to base of petiole : racemes loosely 3-7- 

 flowered : pedicels slender ; bractlets small or minute, lanceolate, acuminate, brown and 

 more or less scarious: berries at first blue, becoming dry and inflated to half inch in 

 diameter, 6-8-seeded. — Bot. Mex. Bound. 30 (char, filaments iuappeudiculate incorrect) ; 

 Gray, Bot. Ives Rep. 5; Wat. Bot. King Exp. 41 6. i — Arid region, W. Texas to S. Utah 

 and Arizona, first coll. by Fremont. (Adj. Mex. in Souora, and Lower Calif.) 

 •f— -1— Fruit white or nearly so, large, juicy. 

 B.* Swazeyi, Buckl. Shrub with evergreen leaves much as in preceding but with leaflets 

 more elliptical, less stoutly spiny and with veins more closely reticulated and prominent 

 upon both surfaces : bractlets small but foliaceous, ovate or suborbicular : fruit white, trans- 

 lucent with a pale reddish tinge, nearly half inch in diameter, of pleasant acid taste. — 

 Southern Horticulturist, ii. 14 (as B. Swazeijii) ; Rural Alabamiau, i. 479; Young, Fl. Tex. 

 152; Coulter, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. ii. 10; Plank, Gard. & For. vi. 332. — Limestone 

 hills, near the Perdales River, Hays Co., W. Texas, Bucklei/, and again iu Hays Co., Plank. 

 -)—-)—.)_ Fruit unknown : leaflets small and few : inflorescence loose. 

 B. Nevinii, Gray, n. sp. Leaflets 3 to 7, oblong-lanceolate, rather evenly and numerously 

 spinulose-serrulate, half to full inch long, obscurely reticulated ; lowest pair toward base of 

 petiole : raceme loosely ,5-7-flowereil, equalling or surpassing the leaves ■ pedicels slender. — 

 S. California, near Los Angeles, Nevin. Shrujj 7 or 8 feet high, on a sandy plain. 

 -1— -J— -1— -)— Berries juicy, ovoid, black or blue with a copious white bloom, called by 

 Calif ornian Mexicans Lena Amarilla, and northward Oregon Grape: leaflets ovate to 

 oblong, usually 2 or 3 inches long : racemes commonly fascicled at summit of stem or in 

 axils, subsessile, dense and numerously flowered ; pedicels rather short. 

 B. pinnata, Lag. Shrub 3 to 6 feet high, very leafy leaflets 5 to 9 or sometimes 11 to 17, 

 lucid above, scarcely paler beneath, repand-dentate and the teeth aristately spinescent ; lowest 

 pair close to base of petiole. — " Elench. Hort. Madr. (1803) 6," Nov. Gen. & Spec. (1816) 

 14; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 51 ; Benth. PI. Hartw. 296; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 15; per- 

 haps also Don, Bot. Reg. t. 702, not HBK. of Mexico. Mahonia fascicularis, DC. Syst. 

 ii. 19, as to plant from Monterey, «& Deless. Ic. Sel. ii. t. 3. — Common through W. Califor- 

 nia from San Francisco Bay to Monterey (where first coll. by Nee], and southward. 

 B.* dictyota, Jepson. Leaflets 5 to 7, thicker, paler, and less crowded than in the last, dull 

 or scarcely lucid above, much paler and glaucous beneath, rather prominently reticulated ; 

 spinose teeth stout, mostly less numerous : flowers in dense panicle. — Bull. Torr. Club, 

 xviii. 319. — Marysville Buttes, Calif., Je/isow, Blanlinship ; San Diego, Po/me?-, Cleveland. 

 The fruit of the California plants is still unknown. B. Wilcoxii, Britton & Kearney (Trans. 

 N. Y. Acad. Sci. xiv. 29), from the Huachuca Mts., Arizona, so closely resembles this species 

 in foliage and flowers that it can scarcely be maintained without further distinctions, which 

 may appear as both plants are better known. The Arizona plant has blue-black berries with 

 a copious bloom. It differs from the California specimens from Marj'sville Buttes only in 

 having .slightly thinner and more finely reticulated leaves and more acute bracts. The 

 specimens from San Diego are in some respects intermediate. 

 B. Aquifolium, Pursii. Shrub 1 to 5 feet high : leaflets 5 to 11, commonly thin-coriaceous 

 and elongated-oblong (2 to 4 inches long), numerously spinulose-dentate, bright green and 

 lucid ; lowest pair at some distance from base of petiole. — Fl. i. 219, in part, & t. 4, mainly; 

 Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 29, partly ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1425 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 50, partly. 

 B. pinnata, Lag. 1. c. as to Nutka pi. ; Don, Bot. Reg. t. 702 1 Hook. 1. c. 28. Mahonia 

 Arprifolium, DC. Syst. ii. 20, mainly. — Coast of Oregon to Brit. Columbia, and eastward to 

 near the sources of the Columbia, in hilly woods. 



B. repens, Lixdl.^ Dwarf, depressed or prostrate, rarely rising over a foot high : leaflets 

 3 to 7, oval to oblong, mostly with obtuse or rounded apex, pale or glaucous, not lucid, 



1 And in Gard. & For. i. 496, f. 77. Dr. Gray's description of this species has been slightly ampli- 

 fied to exclude more clearly the following evidently distinct specie.s. 



2 The form of the Pacific Slope attributed to this species has somewhat thicker duller leaves. 

 It has been characterized by Prof. Greene (Pittouia, ii. 161) as B. pumila, and is said not to be 



