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BERBERIS* repens. 
Creeping-rooted Berberry. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. BERBERIDER. 
BERBERIS. — Supra, vol. 6. fol. 487. 
B. repens ; foliis pinnatis 2-3-jugis; foliolis subrotundo-oyatis opacis spinoso- 
dentatis glaucis, fasciculis diffusis, radice repente. 
Frutex humilis, ramosus, erectus. Folia sempervirentia, nunc ternata, 
sepits bi-trijuga, cum impare ; foliolis glabris, ovato-subrotundis, spinoso- 
dentatis, utringue glaucis, nullo modo lucidis, Racemi terminales, fascicu- 
lati, diffusi, & gemmis squamaceis ortt. Flores lutez. 
A native of the north-western part of North America, 
where it was originally found by the party accompanying 
Captains Lewis and Clarke in their expedition across the 
continent of America. 
From seeds procured on that occasion plants were 
raised in America, which have lately been sold into Europe 
at the rate of twenty-five dollars each. One of these now 
growing in the Garden of the Horticultural Society afforded 
our figure and the opportunity of examining the species: 
it had been purchased of Mr. Michael Floy, Nurseryman 
at New York, under the name of Berberis aquifolium. — 
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It appears, however, from the researches of Mr. 
Douglas, that this is not the true B. aquifolium. That 
species was described by Pursh, in part from an inspection 
of specimens in the collection of Captain Lewis, but 
chiefly from the Banksian Herbarium, in which it had 
been placed by Mr. Menzies, who discovered it on the 
* Berbérys, according to Golius, as quoted by De Theis, is the Arabic 
name of the fruit. ; : 
