72 TREES AND SHRUBS 



are used for making- a jelly, which is quite good. This shrub 

 Should grow very well in cultivation because it grows naturally 

 in conditions which are more severe than those supplied in any 

 garden, and it would amply reward the gardener for his trou- 

 ble. It would be necessary to transplant small bushes. Ber- 

 beris fremontii is a shrub which closely resembles the Algerita, 

 except that its fruit is dark blue and dry. It grows in similar 

 situations further Avest and north, reaching New Mexico only 

 along the western side. 



BERBERIDACEAE. Barberry Family 

 Shrubs (one species low) with alternate exstipuiate simple or 

 compound leaves more or less spiny-toothed; flowers yellow, in ra- 

 ceme-, the pedicles opposite; part- of the perianth distinct; free, 

 opposite: anthers opening by uplifted valve-: pistil simple; fruit a 

 berry. 



Stems spiny: leaves simple. 1. Berberis. 



Stems not spiny; leaves compound. 2. Odostemox. 



I. BERBERIS L. Barberry 

 Ours is a low shrub. 1 to 2 1 2 feet high, with simple, elliptic 

 to oblanceolate fascicled leave- having weakly spiny-toothed mar- 

 gins; stems spiny; flowers crowded in short, reflexed n fruit 

 a scarlet ellipsoidal berry about the size of a currant. 

 A single species in the timbered mountains of 



the northern part of the state. l. b. fendleri. 



2. 0D0STEM0N Raf. 



Shrill)-, with compound leaves and stems without spine-; leaf- 

 lets mostly coriaceous, persistent, sinuate-dentate with tew spiny 

 teeth; flowers in rather loose racemes, the parts in sixes, except 

 the pistil; fruit a few-seeded berry. 

 Low shrub 4 inches to 1 foot high with but few- 

 leaves; leaflets 1 to 2 inches long with nu- 

 merous serrate teeth: fruit bluish, glaucous. 1. o. repens. 

 Tall shrubs 4 feet high or more: leaflets less 

 than 1 inch long, with few coarse sinuate- 

 dentate teeth. 

 Leaves trifoliolate: fruit red. :\ o. trifoliolata 



Leaves pinnate with 5 leaflets. 



Fruit Juicy and not inflated at maturity, 

 blood red; terminal leaflet long-atten- 

 uate, comparatively narrow. 3. . haematocarpa. 

 .Fruit dry and inflated at maturity, dark 



blue; terminal leaflet acute, broad. 4. O. fremontii. 



