BERBERIDACEAE 545 
4 CAULOPHYLLUM Michx. Large herbs, with thick rootstocks. 
Leaf high up on the flowering stem, ternately compound. Flowers in a raceme- 
like cyme. Sepals 6, accompanied by 3 or 
4 bractlets. Petals 6, gland-like, dilated. 
Stamens 6: anthers shorter than the fila- 
ments. Fruit ereet.— Two species, the fol- 
lowing and one in Asia. 
1. C. thalictroides (L.) Miehx. Plants 
3-9 s E: all: leaflets 2-3-lobed at the ali 
1 long: m. lon 
4—10 panicle 4-10 
pals pue or purplish, 3-6 mm. 1 ng: 
petals about m. long: seed about 1 em 
in diameter.—(BLUE-COHOSH E-GIN- 
ENG.  GREEN-VIVIAN. PAPPOOSE-ROOT.)— 
Rich woods, various provinces N of Coastal 
Plain, S. C. to Nebr., Minn., and N. B.—spr. 
—The exserted seed. is likely to be mistaken for a drupe. The plant is 
medicinal. 
Famity 10. BERBERIDACEAE — BansERRY FAMILY 
rubs or small trees, sometimes spiny. Leaves alternate: blades com- 
pound, sometimes 1-foliolate. Flowers perfect. Calyx of 6-9 sepals 
usually accompanied by bractlets. Corolla of 6-9 petals usually smaller 
than the inner sepals. oe of 6 irritable stamens, the anthers 
opening by valves. Gynoecium of a single earpel. Stigma orbicular. 
Fruit a berry.—Two genera ad about 100 species, widely distribut ed. 
i. BERBERIS L. Shrubs with lax branches. Leaves of 
branches transformed into spines, those of the branchlets with oi 
l 
petals. Petals 6-9, with basal glands. 
Berry red.—About 80 species, American and 
Eurasian 
B. canadensis Pursh. A shrub 3-20 
1. 
dm. tall: leaflets mostly 3-6 cm. long, the 
blades mainly spatulate, sometimes mee 
tulat y-s : 
S rarely oval, 
rae m. long: ealyx 8-11 m erid ? 
he inner sepals 3—4 mm. long: pet el 
low, mai 5—3.5 mm. long: berry scarlet, 
—7 mm. long.—(BARBERR a E Y- 
BARBERRY. CLIFF-BARBERRY.)—Rocky. woods 
and cliffs, various d s ces x of Coastal Plain, Ga. to W. Va., also Mo.; 
not in pae Spr.—The berries are edible.—5. NL T DC. A native of 
üch-branched spiny shrub to 15 dm. tall with obovate or 
Japan y up 
pers aaa leaf-blades, numerous yellow flowers, and bright red, ellipsoid 
or subglobose persistent berries, is naturalized in the mountains of N. C. | 
