66 DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



A. Branches reddish brown or brown ; fruit coral-red. American 

 Bakhkkkv (16) — Berberis canadensis. 



* Leaves thin, deciduous, usually without notches. 



B. Branches reddish brown ; flowers orange-yellow in racemes ; 

 fruit dark blue. (C.) 



C. Flowers and fruit pendulous. Turkestan Barberry — Ber- 

 beris heteropoda. 

 C. Flowers and frui^ erect. Persian Barberry — Berberis in- 

 tegerrima. 

 B. Branches brown, grooved ; flowers pale yellow, nearly solitary 

 (1-3) ; fruit bright red; leaves small (^-H inches long), spatu- 

 late ; low dense shrub, 2-4 feet. Thunberg's Japanese Bar- 

 berry (12) — Berberis Thunbergii. 



* Leaves thick, small (J-1 inch long), usually entire and about ever- 



green. (D.) 

 D. Flowers solitary on long stems, orange ; fruit blackish purple. 

 Box-leaved Barberry (17) — Berberis buxifolia. 



D. Flower^ (2-6) in umbels ; leaves with rolled edges, small (^-Ij 

 inches). Small-leaved Barberry — Berberis stenophylla. 



* Leaves holly-like, spiny-toothed. (E. ) 



E. Flowers in simple racemes, orange-yellow. Holly'-leaved Bar- 

 berry (18) — Berberis ilicifolia. 



E. Flowers in compound racemes. (F.) 



F. Leaves with many spiny teeth. Bearded Barberry (10) — 



Berberis aristkta. 

 F. Leaves with few large strong spines. Jameson's Barberry 

 — Berberis Jilmesoui. 



KEY TO THE BARBEEKIES WITH COMPOUND 

 EVERGREEN^ LEAVES. — MAHONIA. 



* Leaves almost without stalk below the blades. (A.) 



A. Blades 3-7, thick, dull and whitish. Fremont's Mahonia — 



Mahonia Fr^raonti. 

 A. Blades 5-17, thick, dark green, shiny, with few teeth ; height 2-3 



feet. Mahonia (20) — Mahonia pinn^ta. 

 A. Blades 9-13, large (2-5 inches long) ; height 5-10 feet. Japan 



Mahonia (15) — Mahonia japonica. 



A. Blades 5-25, smaller, rigid \vith fewer teeth ; height 4-6 feet. 

 Nepaul Mahonia — Mahonia nepal^nsis. 



* Leaves decidedly stalked below the blades. (B.) 



B. Blades rounded or square at base. (C.) 



