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[Plate 46.] 
THE DARWIN BERBERRY. 
(BERBEItTS DARAYINIT.) 
A hardy Evergreen Shrub, from Patagonia, belonging to the Natural Order of Berberids. 
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THE DAE WIN BERBERRY. Spines radiating, 5-parted, 
covered as well as the branches with a close nisty fur. 
Leaves simple, evergreen, wedge-shaped, 3-toothed, some- 
times with another tooth or two at the side, spiny. Ra- 
dense, pendulous. Pistil flask-shaped, narrowed 
at the base, with a long style. 
BERBERIS DARWINII ; spinis radiatis 5-partitis rarais- 
que ferrugiueo-tomentosis, foliis simplicibus semperviren- 
tibus cuneatis 3-dentatis nunc dente uno alterove auctis 
spinosis, racemis densis pendulis, pistiilo lagenteformi 
basi angustato stylo elongato. 
Berberis Darwinii ; Hooker^ Icoms plantar umj t. 672 : Lindleyy in Journal of H(yri, Sec, vol. v., p. 6, 
A s far as our knowledge of this most beautiful 
evergreen 
laurel oi 
Britain : 
It is thus mentioned in an account of Evergreen Berberries cultivated in Great 
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Chiloe and Patagonia furnished this to Mr, T. Lobb^ "whose seeds have enabled Messrs. Veitch 
and Co. to raise it. Mr. Darwin also found it in Cliiloe ; Bridges in Yaldivia and Osorno. 
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shrub three to five feet high, of extraordinarj' 
for its ferruginous shoots, by w^hich it is at once recognised. The leaves are of the deepest green, 
shining as if polished, not more than three quarters of an inch long, pale green, with the principal 
veins conspicuous on the under side, with three large spiny teeth at tlie end, and about one (or two) 
more on each side near the middle. Although small, the leaves are placed so near together that the 
branches themselves are concealed. The flowers, which have not been yet formed in England, ai 
in erect racemes, and of the same deep orange yellow as in the Box-leaved species. 
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