BER'BERIS GLUMA'CEA. 
GLUMACEOUS BARBERRY. 
Class. 
HEXANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
BERBERACEiE. 
Order. 
DIGYNIA. 
Native of 
Height 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
N. America 
3 feet. 
Mar. & Apr- 
Shrub. 
in 1826. 
No. 879. 
Our present generic appellation is supposed to 
have been derived from the Arabic; see No. 653. 
Its specific name has reference to the glume-like 
scales of the raceme. This species has been called 
nervosa, after Pursh ; but, as an inadvertency 
occurred in this author’s specific description, it was 
thought best to adopt a new name and character 
together. 
Seeds of the Berberis glumacea were sent home 
by Douglas, the London Horticultural Society’s 
collector, who gathered them in pine forests, on 
the north-west coast of America, where it grew 
abundantly. It is evergreen, and rarely exceeds 
three feet in height ; and is clothed to the ground 
with its ornamental pinnate leaves — handsome at 
all times, but the most attractive when they assume 
their dark purple hue of autumn. When well 
established, it sends out abundance of suckers, 
three or four feet from the parent plant ; which, if 
left undisturbed, would soon extend over a con- 
siderable space of ground. It succeeds in any 
soil ; and, although made purple by autumn’s 
blast, it defies all further injury. 
