B. dealbata, Whitened Barberry. — Spines scarcely any ; leaves roundish, coarsely-toothed, rather glaucous, white beneath ; racemes very short and compact, pendulous. A native of Mexico. It is a tall slender evergreen bush, with deep-brown branches and scarcely any spines. The leaves arc sometimes wedge-shaped and 3-toothed, but more frequently nearly round, with two or three spiny teeth on each side. It is sometimes called in the gardens by mistake B. glance, which is a different species.
B. arislata, Bristle-Leaved Barberry.-.-Spines 3-parted, simple, or wanting ; leaves obovate, acute, shining on both sides, with a few bristle-pointed .teeth on either edge; racemes always more or leas compound and corymbuse. A native of the mountains of Hindustan, extending from the Himalayas down the Nligherry Bills as far as Adam's Peak in Ceylon. It is a hardy sub-evergreen buil in the gardens.
Section II. Leares pinnated ; all erergreen.—Astl-Bannraums.
B. faseicularis, Californian Ash-Barberry.—Leaflets ovate, finely soothed, not shining ; flowers in short compact clusters ; stem tall and woody. Found in the moutainous parts of California and Mexico. A very handsome evergreen shrub, with piunated leaves which are by no means shining, and of a paler green than several of the others.
Mahonia dirersifolia of the gardens seems to be the same as this ; and the story of he Inning been brought from Monte Video Is probably not true.
B. Agrafdium, Holly-Leaved Ash-Barberry.—Leaflets ovate-lanceo late, fiat, deeply and regularly toothed, remarkably shining; flowers in long narrow racemes ; stem tall and woody. A native of North Weat America from California to Nootka Sound, growing in woods, where it forms a rich and thick underwood. Its foliage is of a rich deep shining green, becoming purple in the winter ; it bears fruit in some abundance, which consists of cluetem of roundish black berries, having their surface covered with a rich violet bloom. They have no merit fruit, but would probably be greedily sought by game, for the protection of which in coverts this species seems well adapted, if it could only be obtained in sufficient quantity. The difficulty of propagating it has hitherto made it a scarce plant; but seeds might be easily obtained from the Hudson's Bay Company's settlements in North-West America. It most resembles B. faseieularis, from which its largo shining leaves at once distinguish it ; and it is perfectly hardy, which that species is not : flowers in May and June. It has been figured hi the ' Botanical Register,' vol. xviL, pinto 1425.
11. ripens, Creeping Aalellarberry.—Lenflets few, somewhat glaucous, especially- on the under side, oblong, when old rounded at the point, with shallow toothings ; flowers in crowded racemes; stem very dwarf ; runs at the root. Found wild on the east aide of the Rocky Mountains of North America, and perfectly herdy in our gardens. Its stems do not grow above six or nine inches high, and are loaded with a profusion of rich yellow flowers, which constitute the principal beauty of the species. Its fruit is unknown. A good figure of it has been published in the' Botanical Register.' vol. xiv., plate 1176. Nothing can be more unlike B. A quifulium than this is, although the two have occasionally been most unaccountably con founded.
B. glumacea, Long-Leaved Ash-Barberry.— Leaflet', numerous, ovate lanceolate, coarsely toothed, of a dull glaucous green ; flowers in long narrow erect racemes ; stein very dwarf; scales of the leaf and flower-buds stiff and glumaceous. A native of North-West America, growing in shady grassy places in woods. The stern of this species does not grow more than six or eight inches high, and is in fact shorter than its leaves, which consist of about six pairs with an odd one, and are jointed at every pair of leaflets in the manner of a bamboo stem. The fruit is roundish and insipid, of a fine glaucous purple. This is less rare than R. A quifolium, and is an object of curiosity more than of utility. It loves to grow in a shaded American border, where it is protected from the fiercer rays of the sun. It is figured in the Botanical Register,' vol. I'VE, plate 1426. Berberis or Mahonia nervosa is another name for this species.
In addition to these there are the following species :—Berberis Les ehenaultii (the B. Aeanthifolia of some), a fine pinnated plant with round black fruit, found on the Nilgherry Mountains of India at the elevation of 8000 feet, Berberis Ncpalensis, a native of the mountains of tho north of India, where, according to Dr. Rosie, it grows twelve feet high in shady places, at 5000 and 6000 feet of elevation : this is a noble species, and ought to be obtained from India at any cost, as it would in all probability succeed in this climate. Berberis lragacan lhoides, with not more than one or two pairs of leaflets, found along the banks of the river Kur, near Tiflis ; and 11erberis earaganalolia, as Chinese plant very like the last : both the latter have the points of the leaves hardened into spines.