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

 high, little branched ; leaves iy 2 to 4 inches long ; leaflets 5 to 9, ovate, 1 to 2 

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

 8 to 12 teeth ending in long stout spines, their length % 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. (Caules erecti, rigidi, 3-6 (vel 10) ped. alti; folia l 1 /^ poll, longa, 

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

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



Dry rocky interior foothills, 300 to 1500 feet or up to 6000 feet on desert 

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

 ently also in southern Sierra Nevada foothills. 



Locs. Pellejo Hills, nw. Solano Co., Jepson (type) ; North Fork Lewis Creek, Priest 

 Valley, Jepson 2672; near San Carlos Peak, Brewer 787; Eancho Cantua, Cantua Creek, S. C. 

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

 prominent); Eaton Canon, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 54; Sheep Creek, San Antonio Mts., 

 Hall; Seven Oaks, San Bernardino Mts., Geo. B. Grant 4066; Bloomington, San Bernardino 

 Valley, Parish 4086; betw. Julian and Cuyamaca (Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 6:360). 



Eefs. BERBERIS CALIFORNICUM Jepson. Odostemon dictyota Abrams, Bull, N. Y. Bot. 

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



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

 to 7), broadly ovate, whitish, glaucescent or dull green, l 1 /^ to 2 1 / 4 inches long, 

 the rather coarse or medium-sized teeth about 10 to 18, spine-tipped; racemes 

 dense, 1 to l l / 2 inches long ; berries blue, small, oblong. 



Inner North Coast Range and higher Sierra Nevada foothills; north to 

 southern Oregon ; 3000 to 5000 feet. 



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

 Creek, Shasta Co., M. S, Balccr 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. 



Eefs. BERBERIS PUMILA Greene, Pitt. 2:161 (1891), type loc. inner North Coast Bange 

 in Lake Co., as near as may be determined. Mahonia pumila 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 2,y 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 2985; Mt. Eddy, Copeland 3810; Edgewood, 

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

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



Eefs. BERBERIS REPENS Lindl. Bot. Beg. pi. 1176 (1828), type from Northwest America. 

 ('dostemon repens Cockerell Univ. Mo. Stud. Sci. 2 2 :125 (1911). Mahonia repens G. Don, 

 L>hlam. 118 (1831). 



6. B. aquifolium Pursh. MOUNTAIN GRAPE. Stems erect, 1 to 3 feet high ; 

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

 leaflets plane, 3 to 5 or 7, elliptic-ovate to oblong-ovate, l 1 /^ 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 from Amador Co. to Modoc Co. North to British Columbia. Also called 



Hollyleaf Barberry. 



Locs. Near Mt. St. Helena, Jepson; Hupa, Cliandler 1277; Edgewood, J. W. Kisling; 

 Yreka, Butler 591; Lassen Creek, Modoc Co., B. M. Austin; Truckee, Sonne; Amador Co., 

 Gates. 



Var. dictyota Jepson n. comb. Erect, stout, % to 1 foot high, sparsely leafy; leaflets 5 

 to 7, broadly ovate, prominently reticulated, shining and yellow above, paler beneath, 1 to 2% 

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

 to base of petiole; racemes dense, % to I inch long. Eocky slopes, Marysville Buttes. 



