28 BERBERIDACE^E. BERBERIS. 



VANCOUVERIA. 



cent above racemes short, terminal and axillary ; berries small, very 

 glaucous. Coast mountains of southern Oregon and northern Califor- 

 nia. 



B. repens Lincll. Bot. Reg. t. 1176. Stems stoutish erect, branching, 1-4 

 feet high : leaflets few, coriaceous, light green, coarsely spinose-toothed : ra- 

 cemes short, in terminal and axillary clusters : bud scales triangular, 

 acute : fruit globose to oblong, dark blue . Idaho to the Rocky Mountains . 



B. liana Greene Pitt, iii, 98. Low, 3-15 inches high, increasing from 

 underground runners : leaflets 3-7, rarely more, ovate to oblong, acute or 

 obtuse, l-2} inches long, not shining above : racemes few, terminating 

 the branches, 1-2 inches long ; bud-scales triangular, cuspidate 2 lines 

 long. Brit. Columbia to California, Montana and New Mexico. 



B. Aquifolium Pursh FK i, 219 in part. Large, 2-10 feet high : leaf- 

 lets 5-9, oblong-ovate, acute, spinulose dentate, 1-3 inches long, green and 

 shining above: bud scales triangular, acute, 3 lines long; racemens in ter- 

 minal and axillary clusters, 2-4 inches long: fruit globose to oblong. 

 Western Washington to California. 



* * Leaflets palmately veined. 



B. nervosa Pursh 1. c. t. 5. Stems simple, a foot or two high, from 

 long underground shoots : leaves 1-2 feet long, of 11-17 ovate acuminate 

 spinulose-serrate leaflets ; bud scales long-acuminate, 10-12 lines long, per- 

 sistent, becoming dry and rigid: racemes in terminal clusters, 6-12 inches 

 long. In Fir forests from Brit . Columbia to California. 



2 VANCOUVERIA Morr. & Decsne, Ann. (?ci. Nat. ser. 2, ii, 315. 



Slender perennial herbs with 2-3-ternately compound leaves 

 and white or yellow flowers rr) open paniculate racemes upon a 

 naked scape. Sepals 6, obovate reflexed, soon falling with the 

 6-9 oblong, membranaceous bracts . Petals 6, shorter than the 

 sepals and opposite them, linear-spatulate, nectary-like re- 

 flexed. Stigma slightly dilated. Ovules in two rows upon the 

 ventral suture. Capsule dehiscing by a dorsal valve attached 

 by the base, persistent. Seeds oblong, somewhat curved, with 

 a broad attachment and prominent arillus. 



V. hexandra Morr. & Decsne. 1. c. More or less villous, with brown- 

 ish hairs, 1-2 feet high, from long running rootstocks : leaves diffuse, long 

 petioled ; leaflets 1-2 inches broad, petiolulate, subcordate, obtusely 3- 

 lobed, the lobes emarginate, the margin thickened and often undulate: 

 scapes exceeding the leaves : pedicels an inch long or more, recurved : sep- 

 als 2-3 lines long: carpels 4-6 lines long, gibbous-lanceolate, with a slender 

 beak, smooth or slightly glandular; arillus 2-lobed, more than half cov- 

 ering the seed. In Fir forests, British Columbia to California. 



V- chrysantha Greene Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci. i, 66. Stems rusty-vil- 

 lous pubescent: leaflets evergreen, thickish, sub-3-lobed, glabrous and 

 reticulated above, whitened and pubescent beneath, margins only slightly 

 crisped, revolute in places: inflorescence sub-racemose, 5-18 flow r ered, cov- 

 ered with dense dark glandular pubescence : flowers golden yellow ; sepals 

 3-4 lines long; ovules 7-8. Eastern base of the Coast Mountains near 

 Waldo, Josephine county, Oregon. 



3 ACHYLS DC. Syst. ii, 35. 



Smooth perennial herbs with one radical trifolilcate leaf and 

 small white flowers, crowden in a naked spike terminating the 

 scape. Sepals and petals none. Stamens 9 or more in 3 or more 



