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BERBERIS CANADENSIS* 



English Name—BARBERRY. 



French Name — Epike Vinette. 

 German Name — Berberitze. 

 Ofeicinal Name — Berberis baccae, &:c. 

 Vulgar Name — American Barberry bush. 

 Synonyms — Berberis Vulgaris Var. Canadensis 

 of Linnaeus, MIchaux, &c. 



Authorities — Linnjeus, Michaux, Pursh, Schoepf, 

 several Dispensaries, and Mat. Med. 



Genus Berberis— Calix freg with six sepals or fo- 

 lioles, and three small bracts outside. Corolla with 

 six petals, b-glandular at the base. Stamina six, op- 

 posite to the petals. One free pistil, germ oblong, 

 stigma sessile and umbilicate. Berry one celled, 

 two-four seeded. 



Species B. Canadensis — Shrubby, upright, bran- 

 ches dotted, with triple thorns ; leaves fasciculate obo- 

 vate, remote serrulate : racemes nddding or drooping' 



DESCRIPTION— A pretty shrub rising from four 

 to eight feet high, with long bending branches, hav- 

 ing many confluent dots and some small thorns, often 



The leaves are crowded and unequal 



three 



in each fascicle : 



mooth 



and glossy, oboval, obtuse, with small remote teeth 

 4ne flowers arp An d^^j^^ _ i % -.u^ 



X racemes, either 



