ARBORETUM NOTES. G61 
BERBERIDEA. 
BERBERIS DULCIS. 
Loudon, v. 1. 305. 
A large plant in the arboretum 8-10 feet high, 
and some smaller ones in the Vicarage Grove an 
elsewhere. It is a pretty shrub, and appears 
to be quite hardy, not having suffered in any 
considerable degree from the severe winter of 
1860-61. The general habit is like that of Berberis 
vulgaris; branches conspicuously arched, slender, 
wiry, somewhat zigzag; spines three-parted, rather 
small; leaves clustered, small and neat, of an 
agreeable green ; flowers produced in abundance, 
of a fine rich saffron yellow colour. With us it is 
deciduous, and the young leaves come out in April 
with the flowers. According to Dr. J. Hooker, 
in the Flora Antarctica, and Lindley in the Journal 
of the Horticultural Society v. 5. p. 2., this is a 
variety of Berberis buxifolia, which in one form or 
another is said to be a common plant all over the 
south-western parts of South America. (The 
original typical form, bwxzifolia, was discovered near 
the Straits of Magellan:. The form or variety 
dulcis was introduced from Valdivia, in Southern 
Chili. 
BERBERIS DARWINII. 
Hooker, Icones Plantarum, v. 7. tab. 672. 
Botanical Mag. tab. 4590. 
One plant in the American Garden, brought by 
Berberis 
dulcis 
Berberis 
Darwinii 
