618 ORD. XXXVUI. Trihilate. 
BERBERIS VULGARIS. COMMON BARBERRY. 
SYNONYMA. Berberis. Pharm. Dale. 318. Geoff. tit. 172. 
Alston, ti. 255. Lewis. 144. Edinb. New Disp. 146. Bergius. 
276. Murr. iv. 79. Park. Theat. 561. Berberis dumetorum. 
Bauh. Pin. 454. Ray. Hist. 1605. Synop. 465. Gerard. Emac. 
1325. Berberis vulgaris. Huds. Flor. Ang. 137. Withering. 
Bot. Arr. 566. Ic. Eng. Bot. 49. 
Hexandria Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 442. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. 6-phyllus. Petala G: ad ungues glandulis 2. 
Siylus. 0. Bacca 2-sperma., » 
Sp. Ch. B. pedunculis racemosis: spinis triplicibus. 
A LARGE spreading shrub, furnished with spines, covered with 
a light grey bark.—Leaves inversely ovate, blunt, entire, smooth, 
minutely serrated, four or five standing together-upon simple 
footstalks. . Flowers yellow, in slender pendent racemi. Calyx 
composed of six leafits, which are ovate, concave, coloured, 
deciduous, alternately larger and smaller. Corolla consists of six 
_ petals, which are roundish, concave, and at the base each furnished 
with two small oblong orange-coloured corpuscles or nectaries, 
Filaments six; erect, compressed, tapering, shorter than the petals, 
and terminated by double antherz, which adhere to their sides, 
Germen cylindrical, of the length of the filaments. _ Style none, 
Stigma cireular, flat, encompassed. by a sharp border. Fruit a 
cylindrical one-celled red berry, containing two oblong seeds. 
It is a native of England, growing in woods and hedges, and 
flowering in June. In shrubberies, and in gardens where it is very 
generally cultivated, its flowers usually appear much sooner. 
