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Bergpera — continued. 

 B. Koenlgi (Konig's). fl. whitish-yellow, small ; racemes many, 

 foniiins; a corymb at the top of the branches. June. I., leaflets 

 serrated. Ii. 40ft. India, 1820. (L. B. C. 1019.) 



BZJREHEYA (named after M. J. L. de Berkhey, a 

 Dutch botanist). Okd. ComposHce. A genus of ornamental 

 greenhou.se or hardy thistle-like herbs or shrubs. Flower- 

 heads surrounded by a spiny involucre, the scales of 



Berkheya — continued. 

 placed under a glass ; the herbaceous perennials usually 

 by divisions of the plant in spring. The epeoiea most 

 frequently seen in English gardens is B. purpurea. 



B* grandlflora (large-flowered).* Jl.-heads yellow ; scales of in- 

 volucre spiny toothed. July. L opposite, lanceolate, three- 

 nerved, spiny toothed, downy beneath, h. 2ft. Cape of Good 

 Hope, 1812. Greenhouse evergi-een. (B. M. 1844.) 



B. pinnata (pinnate), fi. -heads yellow; involncral .scales spine- 



FiG. 246. Berberis Wallichiana. 

 which are united at the base only ; pappus of many flat, 

 obtuse, or pointed, scales. They are of easy cidtivation in 

 a sandy loam soil. The perennials are increased by cuttings 



pointed, entire or toothed. Autumn. I, oblong, woolly beneath, 

 deeply cut into lance-shaped segments. SVN. Stobcua pinnata. 

 (B. M. 1788.) 



B. purpurea (purplish).* Jl.-heads numerous, pedunculate, corym- 

 bose, circular, Sin. across, surrounded by an involucre of spread- 

 ing or reflexed linear oblong bracts. L, lower ones 15in. to 18in. 

 long, 2in. to 2Mn. wide, dark green, viscid above, paler and 

 cottony beneath, h. 3ft. South Africa. A very handsome, 

 hardy,' herbaceous perennial. (G. C. 1872, p. 1261.) Syn. Stobcea 

 purpurea. 



B. unlflora (oue-flowered). Jl.-heads yellow ; scales of involucre 

 spiny toothed. June. I. alternate, lanceolate, three-nerved, 

 spiny toothed, downy beneath, h. 3ft. Cape of Good Hope, 1815. 

 Greenhouse evergreen. (B. M. 2094.) 



BERMUDA CEDAR. 



diaua. 



BERRy. A fleshy fruit, containing 



BERTHOIiIiETIA (in honour of Louis Claude Ber- 

 thoUc't, a celebrated French chemist). Brazil Nut Tree. 



Juniperus bermu- 



seeds. 



