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MAHONIA GLUMACEA. 
(OLUMACEOUS MAHONIA,) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
natural order. 
BERBERIDACEjE. 
Generic Character.— Sepals six, guarded on the outside by three scales. Petals six, without glands on 
the inside. Stamens furnished with a tooth on each side at the top of the filament. Berries three 
to nine-seeded. Don's Gard. and Botany. 
Spfxific Character.— Plant shrubby, evergreen, from one to two feet in height. Stems erect, short- 
jointed, covered with glume-like stipules at the base. Leaves with very long roundish petioles, 
densely arranged, pinnate ; leaflets in five or six pairs, with an odd one, sessile, ovate, acuminate, 
with remote spiny serratures. Racemes long, ascending. Flowers pale yellow. Berries deep 
blue. 
Synonymes. — Berberis nervosa. Mahonia nervosa. 
Evergreen flowering shrubs, whether of a stove, greenhouse, or hardy class, 
are, of all others, the most valuable. When nature is clothed in her summer livery, 
their foliage loses nothing by comparison with the fugacious verdure of their 
deciduous congeners ; whereas, while the latter are denuded and unsightly, they 
appear to revel in the greatest luxuriance, and rob the winter of half its actual 
rigour. 
But while the above observations embrace evergreens of all kinds, they are 
especially applicable to the hardy shrubby species. The contrast between them 
and the surrounding vegetation is greater, and the incentives to our regard are, on 
this account, much more potent. These plants are, moreover, increasingly interest- 
ing in proportion to their dwarfness ; as, the smaller they are, the denser, of 
necessity, is the disposition of their leaves, the more uninterrupted the display of 
their greenness, and the closer do they assimilate in form to the most exquisite 
deciduous flowers of summer, thus affording a more striking exhibition of difference. 
We have noticed with pleasure the immense demand made during the last few 
years for the evergreen species of Berberis and Mahonia ; for we decidedly con- 
