BBRBERis. HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIAo 33? 



Big. Bost. p. 78. Walt. Car. p. 120. B. canadensis 

 Pursk FLhip.2lO, E lliott Sk. I. o. 412, JV m U, 

 Gen. I. p,2II. 



A shrub 3 — 4 feet high^ with numerous yellowish branches. 

 Boot large, creepint^, yellow. Leaves alternate, often fascicu- 

 late, about an inch long, narrowed at the base into a petiole. 

 Sfiines subaxillary, generally 3-parted, but sonaetimes simple. 

 Racemes about 2 inches long, proceeding from the fascicles of 

 leaves, gradually becoming recurved or pendulous. Pedicelt 

 aggregated, bracteate ; the lower ones elongated. Calyx co- 

 loured, deciduous ; leaflets unequal, obovate ; the interior ones 

 larger. Corolla yellovyr ; fietala as long as the interior leaves 

 of the calyx, ovate, often emarginate, with 2 small purple 

 glands at the base. Stamens shorter than the petals ; y?/c- 

 ments very irritable when touched on the inside, near the base ; 

 anthers adnate. Germen superior; stigma sessile, broad, 

 margined Berries oblong, red, extremely acid, 2-seeded. 



Hab. On mountains and rocky hills ; also along the borders of 

 woods and in hedges ; common. May — June. 



The American Barberry resembles the European Variety in 

 almost every respect. 



229. PRINOS. L, 



Calyx minute, 6-cleft. Corolla monopetaloiis, sub- 

 f-otate, 6-parted. Berry 6-seeded, Gen. pi. 594. 

 Niitt. Gen. I. p. 212. Juss. p. 379. Lam. III. 

 t 255. Nat. Ord. Rhamni Juss. Flowers often 

 polygamous or dioecious. TV inter -berry <> 



1 . P. verticillatus L. : leaves deciduous, oval, serrate, 

 acuminate, pubescent beneath; flowers 6-parled ; staminife- 

 rous axillary, subumbellate; pistilliferous aggregated. Willi. 

 %c. II, p. 225. P ?/ r 5 A F/. I. p. 220. Big.Bost.^. 

 79. Ejiisd. Med. Bot. III. p. 141. t. 55. Bart. Veg, 

 Mat. Med. t. 1 7. P. Gronovii M ich. FL II. p. 236. Aqui- 

 folium foliis deciduis, D uham. Arb. I. p. 62. t. 23. G r on, 

 Virg. 39. 



A shrub 6 — 8 feet high, mtich branched. Leaves alternate, acu^ 

 minate, about 2 inches long, and one inch broad, uncinately 

 serrate, with prominent veins beneath ; petioles half an inch 

 long. i^/owfr» white, dioecious: StaminIferous in small ax- 

 illary umbels ; fiedicels about one-fourth of an inch long. 

 Calyx deeply 6-parted ; segments ovate, acute. Corolla 

 sometimes 7-parted ; segments oblong, rounded r Pistillife- 

 rous nearly sessile, aggregated. Berries globose, scarlet^ 

 crowded in bunches, and thus apf>earing verticillate. 



Hab. In moist woods and in swamps. June- Black Jlder, 

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