48 Berberidaceae 



Herbs. Leaves spiral. Scape with involucre of 

 3 leaves. Sepals 4-20. Honey-leaves o. Anemone. 



Herbs. Leaves spiral. Sepals 5-8. Honey-leaves 

 5-16, conspicuous. *Adonis. 



Herbs. Leaves spiral. Sepals 5, spurred. Honey- 

 leaves small, tubular. Flower-axis ultimately elongate. 



Myosurus. 



Herbs. Leaves spiral. Sepals 3-5, not spurred. 

 Honey-leaves 5, flat, petaloid. Ranunculus. 



Fam. 4. Berberidaceae. Herbs, shrubs, or trees. 

 Leaves simple or compound. Flowers solitary or race- 

 mose, cyclic, homo- or heterochlamydeous, hermaphro- 

 dite 3-2-merous, actinomorphic. Perianth with 2-4 

 whorls, two whorls of honey-leaves often present. Stamens 

 in two whorls, anthers opening by lids or valves. 

 Carpel i, rarely several, with 00 -i ovules on ventral 

 suture or basal. Two integuments. Fruit a berry. Seed 

 with endosperm. 



Subfamily Berberidoideae. Leaves pinnate, or 

 terminal leaflet alone present. Honey-leaves present. 



Tribe i. Berberideae. Inflorescence on lateral short 

 shoots. 



Only British genus (flowers 3-merous, fruit a berry) : 



Berberis. 



*Tribe 2. Epiniedieae. Liflorescence terminal. 

 Only British genus (flowers 2-merous. Petals with 

 discolorous appendages, fruit dehiscent) : 



*Epimedium. 



/3. Syncarpy and Hypogyny domina7it. (For a see page 45, 

 for 7 see page 54.) 



