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- BERBERIS VULGARIS. COMMON DARBERRY, a 
s YNONYMA, Berhats: Phar Dale. 318. ‘Geoff i til. e 
Alfton, its 255; Lewis, 144. Edinb. New Difp. 146. Bergius, 
276. Murr. iv, 79: Park, Theat. g61. Berberis dumetorum. 
~ Bauh, Pin, 454, Ray. Hif, 1605... Syaop, 465, . Gerard. Emac, 
1325+ . Berberis vulgaris... Hud/- Fue rs Ang. “i 37+ Witherngs 
Bot. Arr, 366. Ie.» Eng, Bot. 49: Ene 3 
Hexandria Monogynia. Lin Gen. Ph 442, | 
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Gen, Ch. Cal. 6-phyllus.. Petala 6: : ai ungues pandul 2. Sigluss 
Bacca 2-{perma, — 
Sp. ¢ Gh, +B, 3, peduncat racemofis : fpinis wiplebas, 
A LARGE las fhrub, furnithed with foines, covered with 
a light grey bark. Leaves inverfely ovate, blunt, entire, fmooth, 
minutely ferrated, four 4 or five ftanding together upon fimple foot- 
ftalks. Flowers yellow. in ‘flender pendent racemi. Calyx compofed 
of fix leafits, which are ovate, coneave, coloured, deciduous, alter- 
nately larger and {maller. Corolla confifts of fix ‘petals, which are 
roundifh, concave, and at the bafe each furnithed with two fmall 
' oblong orange-coloured corpufcles or neétaries. Filaments fix, erect, 
compreffed, tapering, fhorter than. the petals, and terminated by 
double antherz, which adhere to their fides. Germen cylindrical, of 
the length of the filaments. Style none. Stigma circular, flat, en- 
compatled by a fharp border, Fruit a cylindrical one-celled red berry ’ 
| containing two-oblong feeds. 
It is a native of England, growing in woods and hedges, and 
flowering in June. In fhrubberies, and in gardens where it is very 
generally ai its owers ufually appear much, fooner. : 
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