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turning to a claret colour in the autumn, and remarkably netted ; on the 

 under side they are pale green, and shining. Naturally it is said to grow 

 ten feet high." — Journ. Hort. Soc, vol. v., p. 4. 



Berberis Loxensis. Bentham. A hardy, or half- 

 hardy evergreen shrub, imported by Messrs. Veitch and 

 Co., from Peru. (Fig. 3.) 



" It has small palmated spines, and very shining, blunt, obovate, 

 bright green leaves, of nearly the same colour on both sides ; they seem to 

 have in all cases a spiny point, and very often several teeth at the sides. 

 The flowers are unusually small, and stand erect in panicled racemes on a 

 long peduncle quite clear of the leaves." — Journ. Hort. Soc, vol. v., p. 7. 



Berberis Darwinii. Hooker. From Chiloe and 

 Patagonia, A hardy evergreen bush of great beauty, 

 imported by Messrs. Veitch. (Fig. 4.) 



"An evergreen shrub three to five feet high, of extraordinary beauty, 

 conspicuous for its ferruginous shoots, by which it is at once recognised. 

 The leaves are of the deepest green, shining as if polished, not more than 

 three-quarters of an inch long, pale green, with the principal veins con- 

 spicuous on the under side, with three large spiny teeth at the end, 

 and about one (or two) more on each side near the middle. Although 

 small, the leaves are placed so near together that the branches them- 

 selves are concealed.. The flowers are in erect racemes, and of a deep 

 orange yellow."— Journ. Hort. Soc, vol. v., p. 6. 



Berberis Tinctoria. Les- 

 clienauit. An Indian sub- 

 evergreen shrub. (Fig. 5.) 



"The plants in gardens are slender, 

 brown-wooded shrubs, with small slender 

 spines, usually three-parted. The leaves 

 are thin, not shining, dull green above, 

 glaucous beneath, oblong, blunt, with a 

 spiny point, but scarcely spiny -toothed, 

 except on the seedling plant."— Journ. 

 Hort. Soc, vol. v., p. 13. At the lower 

 part of Fig. 5 are represented the early 

 leaves of this species, which are cordate 

 and long-stalked, and quite different 

 from the later leaves. 



