Berbtris. BEUHEUI 1) ACE.K. 



B.* Fremontii, Tobu. Shrub 5 to \-l feet high : leaflets 3 to 7, rigidly coriat^eoiw, ovaU- t4i 

 .)l)lol)^^ nut over iiicii loug, rcpaiully «>r siiiuately l-4-toolhed on ea*-h margin, strongly 

 spiucticent ; lowest pair or an articulation close to b.ise of petiole: racemes loosely 3-7- 

 (iowered : pedicels .slender; bractk-ts small or minule, lanceolate, acuminate, bruw'n and 

 more or less scarious: berries at first blue, becoming dry and inflated to half inch in 

 diameter, 6-8-seeded. — Hot. Mex. IJonnd. 30 (char, filaments iuappeudiculate incorrect) ; 

 Gray, Bot. Ives Hep. 5; Wat. Bot. King Exp. 41G.» — Arid region, W. Texa.s to S. liah 

 and Arizona, first coll. by Fremont. (Adj. Mex. in Souora, and Lower Calif.; 

 •»— -<— Fruit white or nearly ho, large, juicy. 



B.* Swazeyi, Buckl. Shrub with evergreen leaves much aa in preceding bni wjiii 1. ui. ts 

 more elliptical, less stoutly spiny and wilii veins more closely reticuLited and proniim nt 

 upon both surfaces : bractlets small but foliaceous, ovate or sul)orl)icular : fruit white, traiw- 

 lucent with a pale reddish tinge, nearly half inch in diameter, of plesiaant acid tasto. — 

 Southern Horticulturist, ii. 14 (as B. Sivuxe;/ii) ; Rural Alabamian, i. 479; Young, Fl.Tex. 

 1.52; Coulter, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. ii. 10; riank,(iard. & For. vi. 332. — Limestuno 

 hills, near the Perdalcs Kiver, Hays Co., W. Texas, BucUei/, and again iu Hays Co., Flank. 

 H— -t— H— Fruit unknown : leaflets small and few : inflorescence loose. 



B. Nevinii, Gray, n. sp. Leaflets 3 to 7, oblong-lanceolate, rather evenly and numerously 



spinulose-serrulate, half to full inch long, obscurely reticulated ; lowest pair toward base of 



petiole : raceme loosely 5-7-flowered, e(|ualling or surpa-ssing the leaves • pedicels slenrler. — 



S. California, near Los Angeles, Ncvin. Shrub 7 or 8 feet high, on a sandy plain. 



•I— H— -I— -i— Berries juicy, ovoid, black or blue with a coj)iou8 white bloom, called by 



Californian Mexicans Lena Amarilla, au<\ northward Oregon Gm/w: leaflets ovate to 



oblong, usually 2 or 3 inches long : racemes commonly fascicled at summit of stem or iu 



axils, subsessile, dense and numerously flowered ; pedicels rather short. 



B. pinnata, Lag. Shrub 3 to 6 feet high, very leafy • leaflets 5 to 9 or sometimes 11 to 1 7, 

 lucid above, scarcely paler beneath, repand-dentate and the tcetii aristjitely spinescent ; lowest 

 pair close to base of petiole. — " Elencli. Hurt. Madr. (1803) 6," Nov. (Jen. & Spec. (181C) 

 14; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 51 ; Bcnth. PI. Ilartw. 296; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 1."); per- 

 haj)S also Don, But. Keg. t. 702, not HBK. of Mexico. Mahonin fascicularis, DC. Syst. 

 ii. 19, as to plant from Monterey, & Delcss. Ic. Sel. ii. t 3. — Common through W. Califor- 

 nia from San Francisco Bay to Monterey (where first coU. by Nee), and southward. 



B.* dictyota, Jepson'. Leaflets 5 to 7, thicker, paler, and less crowded tlian in tlie last, dull 

 or scarcely lucid above, much paler and glaucous beneath, rather prominently reticulated ; 

 spinose teeth stout, mostly less immerous: flowers in dense panicle. — Bull. Torr. Club, 

 xviii. 319. — Marysville Buttes, Calif., Jepson, Blankinship ; San Diego, Palmpr, CUvrland. 

 The fruit of the California plants is .still unknown. B. Wilroxii, Britton & Kearney (Tran.<. 

 N. Y. Acad, ^-i xiv. 29), from the Huachnca Mts., Arizona, so do.sely resembles this sjiecies 

 in foliage and flowers that it can scarcely be maintained without further distinctions, which 

 may appear as both plants are better known. The Arizona jjlant has Idue-black l>erries with 

 a copious bloom. It differs from the California specimens from Marysville Buttes only in 

 having slightly thinner and more finely reticulated leaves and more acute bracts. The 

 s])ecimens from San Diego are in some respects intermediate. 



B. Aquifolium, Flrsh. Shrul) 1 to 5 feet high : leaflets 5 to 11, commonly thin-coriaceous 

 and elongated-f)blong (2 to 4 inches long), numerou.sly spinulose-dentate, bright green and 

 lucid ; lowest pair at some distance from base of petiole. — Fl. i. 219, in i)art, & t. 4, mainly ; 

 Hook. Fl. Bo,r.-Am.4. 29, partly ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1425; T(.rr. & Gray, 1. c. .50. partly. 

 B. pinnata, Lag. 1. c. as to Nutka ]jI. ; Don, Bot. Reg. t. 702 1 Hook. I. c. 28. Mnlmuui 

 Aquifolium, DC. Syst. ii. 20, mainly. — Coast of Gregon to Brit. Columbia, and e;istward to 

 near the sources of the Columbia, in hilly woods. 



B. repens, Lixdl.^ Dwarf, depressed oi» prostrate, rarely rising over a foot high : leaflets 

 3 to 7, oval to oblong, mostly with obtuse or rounded apex, pale or glaucous, not lucid, 



1 And in Gard. & For. i. 496, f. 77. Dr. Gray's description of this 8pecit%-* has been slightly ampli- 

 fied to exclude more clearly the following evidently distinct species. 



2 The form of the Pacific Slope attributed to tliis siu'.-ics has somewhat tliicker ilullcr Icnve^. 

 It li,-is been characterized 1> !''"i' Cr,-,,,,. M'itinni-,. ii. I'.n :i^ Ii. rrMii a. an<l is said not to bo 



