130 EVERGREENS. 



bright yellow solitary flowers, which are pendant on 

 slender footstalks, giving the tree an elegant appear- 

 ance. Leaves small, of a deep shining green ; berries 

 round and black. An excellent plant for a lawn. 



BERBEEIS EMPETRIFOLIA. Lamarck. 

 (Cranberry-leaved Berberry.) 



A small bush, with trailing branches, from the 

 Cordilleras of Chili. It never grows above three feet 

 high. Leaves small and linear, resembling those of a 

 Heath. Its flowers are produced in May ; they are 

 solitary, or rarely in pairs, with shorter footstalks than 

 those of dulcis. It thrives best in peat, or peat and 

 loam, and is an excellent rock plant. 



BERBERIS FORTUNL Lindley. 

 (Fortune's Berberry.) 



A shrub five or six feet high, with smaller leaves 

 than the other ash-leaved species, and with stiff erect 

 branches. Leaves deep green. It requires a rich 

 soil and cool situation. 



BERBERIS FASCICULARIS. Sims. 

 (Prickly Berberry.) 



SYN. Mdhonia fascicularis. De Cand. 

 Berberis pinnata, Lagasca. 



Indigenous to California and part of Mexico. A 

 handsome shrub, growing eight or ten feet high in 

 favourable localities, and produces its large racemes of 

 yellow flowers in abundance. Its foliage is paler than 



