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BERBfiRIS empetrifolm. 

 Crowherry-leaved Berberry, 



HEXANDRIA MONOOYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Berberace^. 



BEBBERIS. Botanical Register, vol. G./ol. 487. 



B. empetri/oliu ; spinis hastato-tripartitis simplicibusque margine revolutis, 

 foliis fasciculatis mucronatis linearibus margine ciliatis revolutis, flori- 

 bus solitariis geminisque. 



B. cmpetrrfolia. Lam.illiistr. t. 253./. 4. DeCand. syst. nat.2. 16. Loudon's 

 arbor. Britann. pp. 306. ^ 2537. Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2. t. 350. 



If the identifications of writers on this pretty little bush 

 are correct, it must have an extensive range along the southern 

 parts of South America ; for Commerson is said to have 

 found it common in subalpine woods at the straits of Magellan; 

 Captain King is stated to have met with it at the same place, 

 and to have sent its seeds through his collector Anderson to 

 Mr. Lowe of the Clapton nursery, where it was raised, and 

 furnished all the stock now to be found in this country, while 

 the only wild specimens I have seen were collected in Chile 

 by Dombey, and in the Andes of that country by Messrs. 

 Macrae and Cuming. 



It is a very remarkable and pretty plant, but evidently 

 dislikes the climate of the country round London, where it is 

 a rather delicate slender trailer ; my Chilian specimens shew 

 it however to be under more favourable circumstances a rigid, 

 robust, erect bush, which must be extremely beautiful. It 

 would be worth trying the effect of a conservatory, or of a 

 Devonshire or Cornish climate upon its constitution. 



The specimen now figured was obtained in the garden of 

 the Horticultural Society, where it flowers in the month of 

 May. 



Fig. 1. represents a flower, magnified, just before the 



