12 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 



(Monte Generoso) ; and pubens, Sm., resembling the last, 

 but with narrower leaflets. 



Tribe ACT^E^E. — Flowers nearly regular ; fruit a berry. 



1 8. ACT^A, L. 



Flowers small; sepals 3-5, petaloid; petals small or o. 



A. spicatay L., Bane-berry, with black many-seeded 

 berries, small white flowers in a simple raceme, and ter- 

 nately compound leaves, is met with in copses in Switzer- 

 land and Pyrenees. 



Order H.— BERBERIDE^. 



Flowers regular, trimerous; stamens definite, opposite 

 the petals ; anthers opening by recurved valves ; carpel i ; 

 fruit a i-2-seeded berry or drupe. A small order of 

 shrubs or small trees, belonging mostly to the temperate 

 regions. 



I. Berberis, L. 



Sepals 8-9, petaloid ; petals 6 ; stamens 6 ; fruit a 

 l-2-seeded berry. Not alpine. 



B. vulgaris, L., our Barberry, grows in thickets 

 throughout the district, and is especially abundant in 

 Eastern Switzerland (Orisons). 



2. Epimedium, L. 



Sepals, petals, and stamens 4 each ; flowers in a very 

 loose raceme. 



E. alpinum, L. ; flowers reddish-brown, leaves bi- 

 ternate, leaflets cordate ; Tirol, Carniola ; not wild 

 elsewhere. 



