1 2 BERBERIDACEiE. 



BERBERIDACE^. 



BERBERIS, L. 



23. B. vulgaris, L. Common Barberry. 



IS'uti\e ur tlenizeii ; in hedges and bushy places. Rare. May, 

 part of June. 

 c. I. On a hedge-bank, close to a garden-plot, Forder, St. Stephens. 

 jNIany bushes on the edge of the lawn of Trevollard House, St. 

 Stephens, extending for 7 to 9 yards, close to a station of Inula 

 Helenium. Hedge near Moditon Mill, for about 4 yards, near 

 an orchard, and Rihes Grossularia in the hedge where it grows. 

 Two bushes in a hedge by an orchard at Leigh. Hedge close 

 to a ruinous house, Horsepool Lane, Sheviock, with Melissa 

 officinalis. Here and there for some yards m a hedge at right 

 angles with the old road from Polsco to Polbathick, immediately 

 opposite Polbathick Wood, and away from houses. 

 II. Three or four bushes on the right bank of the inlet from St. 

 Johns Lake, between Torpoint and St. Johns ; also plentifully 

 in a hedge extending up from the inlet between two fields ; 

 Prunus Cerasus in the locality. A bush in a hedge near 

 Torpoint, by the road to Carbeal. Harewood, probably planted ; 

 1864. 

 D. III. Hedge-bank by Keyham Lane, Stoke Damerel, extending for 2 

 or 3 yards ; 1874. In a waste bushy spot by a road to Blaxton 

 Ferry from the Tamerton Road; also in a hedge-row in the 

 first field by the path from Blaxton Cross to Horrabridge. A 

 bush in a hedge-row by the path to Warleigh House from Old 

 Warleigh Lane. A bush in a hedge-row by a garden at Honic- 

 knowle. Hedge-row close to an orchard, Milton, Buckland 

 jNIonachorum. 

 IV. Near Plymouth ; Fl. Dev. 63. Hedge-row between Widey and 

 Egg Buckland Vicarage, for about 2 to 3 yards. A single bush 

 on the side of a hedge-bank, by a field, above the valley to the 

 west of Egg Buckland Clim-ch. Hedge at Oolebrook \illage ; 

 doubtless planted. 

 V. ]\Iany bushes in a hedge by an orchard at Spriddlestone ; very 

 near where the old Manor House recently stood. 

 Some bushes unquestionably grow where they were never planted by 

 man, yet it seems impossible to say whether the Barberry is Native or 

 Denizen, especially as the bushes that were certainly not planted occur 

 mostly in localities where there are others in hedge-rows, from which they 

 may have been derived through seed carried by birds, &c. 

 First record : Jones and Kingston, 1829. 



