BERBERIDE. I. Berseri. II. MAHONIA. 
ovate, mucronate, entire; racemes simple, pendulous. R. S. 
Native of Brazil. o 
Laurel-like Barberry. Shrub 4 to 8 feet. 
§2. Leaves simple. Pedicels 1-flowered. 
30 B. Watucnia'na (D.C. prod. 1. p. 107.) spines 3-parted ; 
leaves elliptical-oblong, acuminated at both ends, very smooth, 
rigid, coriaceous, spinosely-serrated, green and shining on both 
surfaces ; pedicels club-shaped, 10-15, aggregate, 1-flowered ; 
berries oval. h. G. Native of Nipaul. 
Wallich’s Barberry. Fl.? Clt.1820. Shrub 4 to 8 feet. 
31 B. tomentosa (Ruiz, et Pav. fl. per. 3. p. 52. t. 282. b.) 
spines none ; leaves oval, under surface densely tomentose, entire 
or with a few spiny-teeth ; pedicels 1-3, 1-flowered, slender. 
h.G. Native of Chili about Conception. Flowers 6-petalled, 
about the size of those of B. vulgaris. Berries oval, 2-3-seeded, 
beaked with the pedicellate stigma. 
Woolly-leaved Barberry. Fl. May, July. Shrub 8 feet. 
32 B. ivrea (Ruiz, et Pav. fl. per.3. p. 51. t. 280.) spines 
none; leaves obovate, mucronate, and tricuspidate ; branchlets 
rather pubescent ; pedicels many, 1-flowered, somewhat shorter 
than the leaves. h. H. Native of Peru on wooded rocks in 
the Andes in cold situations. The wood is hard and made 
into utensils, it also yields a yellow colour which is used for 
dying cloth. 
Yellow-dye Barberry. Fl. Nov. to June.” Shrub 4 feet. 
i 3 B. conre’rta (H. B. et Kth. nov. spec. amer. 5. p. 69. 
+430.) leaves smaller than in any of the other species, entire, 
terminated by a spine, and furnished with a small spine on each 
side, but many of them bear 2 or 3 small spines on each side. 
2.8. Native of South America between Caxamarca and the 
nver Magdalena. B. lùtea, var. B, D.C. syst. 2. p. 14. 
i omded-leaved Barberry. Fl. Nov. to June. Shrub 4 feet. 
elliptic. INERMIS (Pers. ench. 1. p. 387.) spines none ; leaves 
so ptc, quite entire, smooth, scarcely mucronulate; pedicels 
tary, 1-flowered, longer than the leaves. h. H. Native of 
e Straits of Magellan at Bougainville Bay. Ovaries ovate, 
crowned by the stigma. 
Unarmed Barberry. Fl. Dec. Shrub 4 feet. 
eae BUXIFO LIA (Lam. ill. t. 253. f. 3.) spines 3-parted ; 
ca es ovate or ovate-lanceolate, smooth, quite entire ; pedicels 
rise than the leaves, either solitary, 1-flowered, or in threes, 
ng from a short peduncle. h.H. Native of the Straits of 
shee tt the bottom of the Boucaut Bay. A small twisted 
e Berries blueish-purple, 4-seeded. 
dunde, B, microphýlla (Forst. in comm. goett. 9. p. 29.) pe- 
su ctes 3, 1-flowered. Native of Terra del Fuego in the fis- 
res of rocks. 
Box-leaved Barberry. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 
caves bt EMPETRIFO'LIA (Lam. ill. t. 253. f. 4.) spines 3-parted ; 
“flow a quite entire, with revolute margins; pedicels 1-2, 
alpine cred. k. H. Native of the Straits of Magellan in sub- 
the broods: frequent. A small shrub. Pedicels rising from 
x nchlets between the leaves. 
rh Tum-leaved DEN Fl. Dec. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 
© CUNEATA (D. C. syst. 2. p. 16.) spines 3-parted, 
hardly longer than the leaves ; leaves obovate-cureate, spinosely- 
length wipes pedicels solitary, 1-flowered, nearly equal in 
on Decid the leaves. _k.G. Native of South America about 
e Ea pratum, Allied to B. heterophylla. Flowers about 
globose 05 those of B. vulgaris. Berries obovate, somewhat 
sessile stigma intense bluish-purple colour, crowned by the 
W, edge-leaved Barberry. Shrub 4-6 feet. 
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38 B. HETEROPHY'LLA (Juss. in Poir. dict. 8. p. 622.) spines 
3-parted ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, some of them en- 
tire, others furnished with 3 pungent teeth ; pedicels solitary, 1- 
flowered, hardly longer than the leaves; filaments toothed. h. H. 
Native of the Straits of Magellan. Hook. exot. fl. t. 14. Allied 
to B. ruscifòlia, but abundantly distinct in the pedicels being 
l-flowered. Berries roundish, 4-seeded, purplish-blue, about 
the size of a pea, and crowned by the sessile stigma. 
Variable-leaved Barberry. Fl. May, June. Clt. 1820. Shrub 
4 to 6 feet. 
39 B. vrrca'ra (Ruiz. et Pav. fl. per. 51. t. 281. f. B.) spines 
small or none ; leaves obovate, entire, or spinosely-toothed at 
the apex, smooth ; pedicels solitary, 1-flowered, length of leaves. 
h. S. Native of Peru in woods. An erect, much branched, 
smooth shrub. Berries small, oblong-ovate. Seed brown. 
Allied to B. lùtea. 
Twiggy Barberry. Fl. Dec. to Feb. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 
40 B. Sısrrica (Pall. fl. ross. 2. p. 42. t. 67. itin. app. no. 
108. t. P. f. 2. ed. gall. 3. p. 211. t. 13. f. 2.) spines 3-7- 
parted ; leaves lanceolate-obovate, ciliately-serrated; peduncles 
1-flowered, shorter than the leaves. h. H. Native of Siberia, 
Altaia, and Dauria, among rocks. Flowers very like those of 
B. vulgaris. The berries, according to Pallas, are obovate and 
red. l 
Siberian Barberry. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1790. Shrub 1 to 2 ft. 
41 B. arrovi rens (Wall. mss.) spines 3-parted, long, equal ; 
leaves lanceolate, tapering to both ends, spiny-ciliated, acute, 
rusty on the under surface ; pedicels aggregate, 1-flowered, 
rising from the heart of the fascicle of leaves. h. H.. Native 
of Nipaul. ' 
Dark-green-leaved Barberry. Shrub 10 feet. 
Species not sufficiently known, but distinct, from the leaves 
being abruptly pinnate, and with their petioles ending in a spine 
at the apex. 
42 B. rracacantuorprs (D.C. syst. 2. p. 18.) spines 3- 
parted, small; leaves with 1-2 pair of leaflets, crowded in the 
axillz ; petioles spiny at the apex. kh. H. Native of Russia 
along the banks of the river Cur near Tiflis. A species allied 
to B. Crética and B. Sibirica. 
Tragacantha-like Barberry. Shrub 1 foot. l 
43 B. caracanæro Lia (D. C. syst. 2. p. 18.) the primordial 
leaves bearing at the base two stipulary spines, with the top of 
their petioles ending in a spine ; leaflets 2-pairs. k. G. Native 
of China in the province of Shantong. Leaflets 2-pairs, inserted 
at the top of petiole beneath the spinescent part. 
Caragana-leaved Barberry. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. , 
Cult. The commoner sorts of this genus will do well in any 
kind of garden soil, but the rarer species will require to be 
grown in a mixture of loam and peat, mixed with a little sand ; 
they may be either propagated by suckers or layers which should 
be put down in the autumn, when the leaves have fallen, and 
ripened cuttings planted at the same time will strike root, or 
they may be increased by seeds, which is the most general 
method, sown either in the autumn or spring. The stove species, 
or those sorts natives of warm climates, do not require so much 
heat as other stove plants, and the green-house kinds may be 
easily preserved in a frame. 
II. MAHO'NIA (in honour of Bernard Mc Mahon of Phila- 
delphia, a lover of botanical science.) Nutt. gen. amer. 1. no. 
307. D. C. syst. 2. p. 18. prod. 1. p. 108. Adostémon, Raf, 
amer. month]. mag. 1819. p. 192. 
