28 BERBERIDACE &, BERBERIS. 
= VANCOUVERIA. 
cent above racemes short, terminal and axillary; berries small, very 
glaucous. Coast mountains of southern Oregon and northern Califor- 
nia. | 
B. repens Lindl. 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 tooblong,dark blue. Idaho tothe Rocky Mountains. 
B. nana Greene Pitt. iii, 98. Low, 3-15 inches high, increasing from 
underground runners: leaflets 3-7, rarely more, ovate to oblong, acute or’ 
obtuse, 1-24 inches long, not shining above: racemes few, terminating 
the branches, 1-2 inches long; bud-scales triangnlar, cuspidate 2 lines 
long. Brit. Columbia to California, Montana and New Mexico. 
B. Aquifolium Pursh Fl. 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 |. 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 Jong-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. fci. Nat. ser, 2, ii, 315. 
Slender perennial herbs with 2-3-ternately compound leaves 
and white or yellow flowers in 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. wt 
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 coy- 
ering the seed. In Fir forests, British Columbia to California. 
VY. 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 flowered, 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 trifclileate 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 
