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MENISPERMACER. (MOoNSEED FAMILY.) 
Woody climbers, with dioecious flowers, sepals and petals similar, 
stamens of the same number or more numerous, pistils 2 to 6 becom- 
ing drupes with a single flattened strongly incurved stone (in ours), and 
palmate or peltate alternate leaves without stipules. 
1. COCCULUS DC. 
Leaves palmate, flowers in axillary racemes or panicles, sepals, petals, 
and stamens 6, alternating in threes, anthers 4-celled, pistils 3 to 6 in 
the fertile flowers. 
1. C. Carolinus DC. Minutely pubescent: leaves downy beneath, ovate or cor- 
date, entire or sinuately or hastately lobed, variable in shape: flowers greenish : 
fruit red, as large asa small pea,—A very common climber along streams, with small 
edible red berries. 
9. C. diversifolius DC. Glabrous throughout, or nearly so: leaves very varia- 
ble, cordate, ovate, or oblong (sometimes even linear-oblong), mucronate. (C. oblongi- 
folius DC.)—With the last, from which it can easily be distinguished by its usually 
narrower and glabrous leaves. ‘ 
BERBERIDER. (BARBERRY FAMILY.) 
Shrubs or herbs, with sepals and petals usually in two rows of 3 
each, stamens as many as the petals and opposite to them, anthers 
opening by valves, a single pistil becoming a berry or pod, and alter- 
nate leaves. 
1. BERBERIS L. (BARBERRY.) 
Shrubs with yellow flowers and wood, 1 to 9-foliolate leaves, flowers 
in drooping racemes, 6 obovate concave petals with a pair of glandular 
spots on the base of each, irritable stamens, a circular depressed stigma, 
and fruit a 1 to few-seeded berry, 
* Filaments with two salient teeth al apex: leaves comparatively thin, and spinulosely dentate. 
1. B. repens Lindl. A low shrub less than a foot high: leaflets 3 to 7, ovate, 
acute: racemes few, terminating the stems: berries globose, dark blue.—A common 
Rocky Mountain barberry, and found in the Gaudalupe Mountains of extreme west- 
ern Texas. 
** Filaments without appendages : leaves very coriaccous and rigid, with spinescent teeth. 
2. B. trifoliolata Moric. An evergreen shrub 6 to 15 dm, high, often forming large 
thickets: leaves glaucous, palmately trifoliate, the leaflets sinuately 3 to 5-lobed and 
spiny: berries red, aromatic and acid, about as large as peas.—On gravelly slopes 
and foothills from the Gulf coast to the Limpia Mountains. The red berries ripen 
in May, are often called “currants,” and are used for tarts, jellies, etc. 
3. B. Fremonti Torr. A shrub 15 to 30 dm. high: leaflets 2 or 3 pairs, the lowest 
pair close to the base of the petiole, repand-dentate and spiny: berries somewhat 
ovate, about the size of currants, dark blue.—A rare shrub in the mountain canons 
of extreme western Texas. 
4. B. Swaseyi Buckley. An evergreen shrub 6 to 9 dm. high: leaflets 5 to 9, the 
basal smallest, glaucous and reticulate veiny beneath, repand-dentate and spiny: 
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