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COMPRISING THE 



flotocring plants anb /mis indigenous to tljc Conntg; 



By Thomas Bruges Flower, M.R.C.S., F.L.S., &c, &c. 



No. IV. 



ORDER. BERBERIDACE2E. (YENT.) 



Berberis, (Linn.) Barberry, 



Linn. CI. vi. Ord. i. 



Name, Berberys, being the Arabic word used for this plant by 



Averroes, but some writers derive tbe name from the Greek berberi, 



signifying a shell, from the leaves of the common species having a 



hollow surface. 



1. "B. Vulgaris" (Linn.) common Barberry, Pipperidge bush. 

 Engl. Bot. t. 49. Reich. Icones iii. 4486. 



Locality. Hedges and thickets, but not common in the county. 

 Sh. Fl. May and June. Fr. September. Area, * 2. 3. 4. 5. 



South Division. 



2. South Middle District, " Side of a lane leading from Old Sarum 

 to Stratford," Dr. Maton, Hatcher's Hist, of Salisbury. (This station 

 is now destroyed.) "Hedges near Market Lavington," Mr. Coward. 

 "Drew's Pond, Devizes," Miss Cunnington. 



3. South- west District, "Britford," Major Smith. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, " Chippenham," Dr. R. C. Alexander Prior 

 and Mr. C. E. Broome. " Kington St. Michael, in plenty," Miss 

 Ruck. " Minety ; truly wild," Mr. Perry Keene, (Miss Ruck in litt.) 

 " Indigenous near Bradford," Flora Bath. 1 



1 Aubrey in his Natural History of Wiltshire, page 57, gives the following 

 locality for the berberry. "In the old hedges which are the boundes, between the 

 lands of Priory St. Marie, juxta Kington St. Michael, and the West held which 

 belonged to the Lord Abbot of Glastonbury, are yet remaining a great number 

 of berberry trees, which I suppose the nunnes made use of for confections, and 

 they taught the young ladies that were educated there such arts. In those days 



