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BERBERIDACEJS. (BARBERRY FAMILY.) 
Order 5. BERBERIDACEAE. (Barberry Family.) 
Shrubs or herbs , with the sepals and petals both imbricat¬ 
ed the bud in 2 or more rows of 2 — 4 each ; the hypo- 
gynous stamens as many as the petals and opposite then- 
anthers opening by 2 valves or lids, (Podophyllum is an 
exception.) Pistil sbigle. — Petals situated opposite the 
sepals taken as a whole. Filaments short. Fruit a berry 
or a pod. Seeds few or several, anatropous, with albumen. 
Leaves alternate. 
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Tribe I. BERBERIDEAJ. Shrubs. Embryo large : cotyledon! 
1. Berberis. Petals 6, each 2-gIandular at the base. 
Tribe II. NANDINEAL. Herbs. Embryo short or minute. 
2. Leontice. Petals 6, small and gland-like, hooded-kidney-forn> 
3. Jeffersonia. Petals 8, oblong, not glandular. Pod opening ty 
a lid. Stamens 8 : anthers opening by lids. 
4. Podophyllum. Petals 6-9. Stamens 12 - 18: anthers not dis¬ 
tinctly opening by lids. Fruit pulpy. 
BERBERIS, L. Barberry. 
Sepals 6, roundish, with 2 or 3 bractlets outside. Petals 6, ob* 
ovate, with 2 glandular spots inside above the short claw. ^ t3 
mens 6. Stigma circular, depressed. Fruit a 1- few-seeded 
berry. Seeds erect, with a crustaceous integument. — Shrub®- 
with yellow wood and inner bark, yellow flowers in drooping 
racemes, and sour berries and leaves. Stamens irritable. (D* 
rived from Berbirys , the Arabic name of the fruit.) 
1 * B ; vulgaris, L . (Common Barberry.) Leaves scattered 
on the fresh shoots of the season, mostly small and with sharp-lobe 
margins, or reduced to sharp triple or branched spines; from whic* 
the next season proceed rosettes or fascicles of obovate-oblong bristly- 
toothed leaves, and drooping many-flowered racemes; petals entire. 
berries oblong, scarlet. — Introduced from Europe; thoroughly n®** 
ralized in E. New England. May, June. 
B. Canadensis, Pursh, the American Barberry, which grow* 
abundantly in the mountains of Virginia, is to be sought in those of 
Pennsylvania. It is a low bush, with scarcely bristle-toothed leaves* 
notched petals, and oval berries. —The Mahonias, of which 2 or 
species of Western America are cultivated, are Barberries with P lD * 
nate leaves. 
