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sun. After being once established, plants of this species grow with extraor- 
dinary rapidity till they attain the height of 8 ft. or 10 ft., after which they 
continue throwing up suckers, and some of these which we have measured in 
the Fulham Nursery, and in the Goldworth arboretum, were 9 ft. long, 
and, at the lower end, three fourths of an inch in diameter. It is a most 
desirable plant, and calculated to produce a splendid effect, both when in 
flower and when in fruit, upon an open lawn. As a rapid grower, it ought 
not to be planted near slow-growing shrubs or trees. Price of plants, in the 
London nurseries, 1s.each; at Bollwyller,?; in New York, ?. 
Varieties. Mr. Royle has the following remarks. “ Under B. aristata, I con- 
ceive two species have been included, or at least two such very distinct 
varieties as to require particular notice. These are distinguished by the 
natives, apt to confound things together, by the names of Aushmul and chitra. 
The former growing at as low elevations as 3000 feet. and therefore easily 
acclimated in the plains of India, has the leaves and branches pale-coloured, 
and more thorny; the flowers more numerous, racemes erect, appearing 
earlier in the season, and having less pleasant-tasted fruit: while chitra, 
which I conceive to be the true B. aristata, and have not found below 5000 
feet of elevation, has brownish-coloured branches, smooth, shining, almost 
entire leaves, each flower much larger than those of ‘ushmul, though less 
numerous than those on each of the drooping racemes.” (I/lust. §c,, p. 64.) 
App. i. Additional Species of Bérberis. 
B. Wallichiana Dec., synon. atro-viridis. _A native of the higher 
parts of Nepal, and, according to Dr. Lindley, “‘ exceedingly well 
worth procuring, on account of its deep-green evergreen l2aves,” 
which will, in all probability, prove hardy. It is figured in Wallich’s 
Plant. Asiat. Rar., t. 243.—B. kunawurénsis, a native of the Hima- 
laya, is also a very desirable species. — B. actinacantha is mentioned by 
Dr. Lindley as a very common plant, between Valparaiso and Santiago, 
which might be easily introduced : besides which, he says, there are 
other evergreen South American species of great beauty. ‘‘ Some 
from the south of Chili particularly were found by Mr. Bridges near 
Valdivia, with shining holly-like leaves, long racemes of orange- 
coloured flowers, and young branches covered with rusty down.” 
(Penny Cyc., iv. p. 261.) —B. buxifdlia Lam. Il, t. 253. f. 3., and our 
Sig. 55., a small twisted shrub, with bluish purple berries, a native 
of the Straits of Magellan, would be a desirable acquisition, as it is 
doubtless as hardy as B. empetrifdlia, p. 306. In the garden of the 
Horticultural Society there is a berberry raised from seeds received 
from M. Ledebour, under the name of ZB. ‘licifdlia, which has not yet M 
flowered, but which is entirely different from the B. heterophylla, synon. B. ‘licifdlia of the nur- 
series. Seeds of berberries from distant countries, the same authority observes, ‘‘ would certainly 
reach England in safety, if mixed with tenacious earth and rammed into a box,” The species both 
“ Bérberis and Mahdnia are so eminently beautiful, that too much can scarcely be said in their 
avour. 
Genus II. 
lalla) LIL] 
MAHO'NIA Nutt. Taz Manonta, or Aso Berverry. Lin. Syst. Hexandria 
Monogynia. 
Derivation. Named by Nuttall in honour of Bernard M‘Mahon aseedsman at Philadelphia, the 
author of the American Gardener’s Calendar, and an ardent lover of botanical science. 
Identification. Nutt. Gen. Amer., 1. p. 307.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 108.; Don's Mill., p. 117. 
Synonymes. Bérberis of authors; Odostémon Ruf. ; Ash Berberry Pen. Cycl. 
Gen. Char. Sepals 6, guarded on the outside by three scales. Petals 6, with- 
out glands on the inside. Stamens furnished with a tooth on each side at 
top of the filament. Berries 3—9-seeded. (Don’s Mill.,i. p. 118.) — The 
species are elegant evergreen shrubs with yellow flowers and pinnate leaves. 
The latter resemble pretty much those of the ash, and hence, doubtless, 
the name of ash berberry. Natives of the north-west coast of America, and 
also of Nepal, and perhaps Japan. Though some botanists think that the 
