52 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
One of the handsomest of evergreen shrubs, attaining the height of 6 ft. 
in 6 years, quite hardy, producing a profusion of bunches of yellow flowers 
during April and May, In its native country it grows in rich vegetable 
soil, among rocks, or in woods, where it forms a thick and rich undergrowth. 
According to Dr, Lindley, it is “perhaps the handsomest hardy evergreen 
we yet possess. Its foliage is of a rich, deep, shining green, becoming 
purple in the winter; it bears fruit in some abundance, which consists of 
clusters of roundish black berries, having their surface covered with a rich 
violet bloom. It most resembles M. fascicularis, from which its large shining 
leaves at once distinguish it.” (Penny Cyc., iv. p. 262.) Layers and seeds. 
» 3. M. nervo'sa Nutt. The nerved-/eaved Mahonia, or Ash Berberry, 
Identification. Nutt. Gen. Amer., 1, 
p.212.; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 118. aN 
Synonymes. Bérberis nervdsa Ph., ‘ 
and Tor. &§ Gray ; Mahdnia gluma- 
cea Dec.; Bérberis glumacea Pen. 
Cyc. 
Bgravings Pursh Fl. Amer., 1. 
t.5.; Bot. Reg.. t. 1426,; and our 
Sig. 74. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves of 
5—6 pairs, with an odd 
one, the lower pair distant 
from the petiole; leaflets 
ovate, acuminated, and re- 
motely spiny-toothed,some- 
what 83—5-nerved, with 12 
or 14 teeth on each side, 
Racemes elongated. Fila- 
ments bidentate. (Don’s 
Mill.) An evergreen un- 
dershrub. North-west of 
N. America, on the river 
Columbia, in shady pine 
woods. Height 2 ft. to 3 ft. oN 
Introd. in 1822. Flowers a eee 
yellow; October to March. Berries roundish, glaucous purple, or deep 
blue; ripe in July. 
According to Torrey and Gray, the stem is so low, that it often scarcely 
rises from the ground, and, indeed, is much shorter than the leaves, which 
are 1 ft.to 2 ft. in length. Racemes spi- 
cate, often 6in, to 8in.long. Flowers 
larger than in M. Aquifolium. The pe- 
tioles of the leaves, Dr. Lindley says, 
“are jointed at every pair of leaflets, 
in the manner of a bamboo stem.” 
The plant is hardy, and will thrive in 
a shady border of peat soil. One of 
the handsomest of undershrubs. 
24, M. RE‘PENS G. Don. The 
creeping-rooted Mahonia, or Ash 
Berberry. 
Identification. G. Don, in Loud. Hort. Brit., 
No, 28182.; and in Don’s Mill., 1. p. 118. 
Synonymes. Beérberis Aquifdlium Lindi. Bot. 
iteg., t. 1176. 5 Bérberts repens Pen. Cyc. iv. 
p. 262.; B. dquifdlium var. repens Yor. & 
Gray... p. 50. 
Engravings. Bot. Reg., t.1176.; and our jig. 75, 
75. Mahdnia répens. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaficts 2—3 pairs, with an odd one, roundish ovate, opaque, 
