344 HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Berberis. 



I have seen the J. campestris growing with it, but they are per- 

 fectly distinct. %Dr. Smith, rive or inches high. Spike ter- 

 minating, pointing almost horizontally, about f inch long. 



Spiked Rush. [On the very summit of Ben Lomond. Dr. 

 J. E. bMiTH. and Dr. Hope. On bare spots on mountains; 

 often on their summits. On Ben Bourd near Invercauld ; on all 

 the mountains between Angus-shire and Dee side, and on all 

 those of Breadalbane and Glenlochai. Mr. Brown.] 



P. July, Aug. 



BER'BERIS. Calyx 6-leaved : petals 6, with 2 



glands to the claw : style none : berry supe- 

 rior, I -celled; open at the end : seeds 2 or 3. 



vulgaris. B. Fruit-stalks forming bunches: thorns 3 together. 



„ w ,.„ — „.- & 



FL dan. 90\-Woodv. 234-£. hot. \§-M\ll. 63~Black<w. iff 5 

 -Fuchs. 54 -Trag. 9Q3-Clus. i. 120. 2-ZW. 75Q-Lob. 

 obs. 5S9- 2-Ger. em. I32t-Park. 153S-J. B. i. 6. 54- 

 Ger. 1144-Zotf. i. 46. 1. 



*Y)\t first leaves inversely egg-shaped, between serrated and 

 fringed, not jointed. Leaf- scales terminated on each side by a 

 hair-like tooth. Stem-leaves alternate, the lowermost somewhat 

 wing-cleft, with thorny teeth ; the rest are changed into 3-forked 

 thorns. 'The secondary leaves in pairs, oblong, serrated. Between 

 the lowermost leaves and the thorns are concealed lesser leaves. 

 Thus, when the leaves- of the present year are changed into 

 thorns, others will succeed to take place of them in the next. Is 

 there any instance analogous to this ? Linn. sp. pi. Leaf-scales 

 solitary, 3- forked, changing into thorns. FL suec. In searching 

 for the nectaries at the base of the petals when the flower is fully 

 expanded, if you happen to touch the filaments, though ever so 

 slightly, the anthers immediately approach the summit and burst 

 with an explosion, Bot. arr. ed. i. — When the anthers are 

 thoroughly ripe, if the bottom of the filament be irritated with a 

 pin, or a straw, the stamen rises with a sudden spring and strikes 

 the anther against the summit of the pistil, affording a remark- 

 able instance of one of the means used to perform the important 

 office of impregnation. Mr. Whately, from Dr. Sims. See 

 also Phil. Tr. 1788. Bless, yellow, sometimes streaked with 

 orange. Berries red. 



Common Barberry. Ptpperidge-busb. Woods and hedges. On 



Chalk Hills. About Walden, Essex. S. May, June* 





* The leaves are gratefully acid. The flowers are offensive to the 

 smell, when near, but at a proper distance their odour is extremely fine. 



The berries are so very acid that birds will not eat them, but boiled with 



sugar 





