140 RANUNCULACEAE. 



Delphinium Ajacis L., Garden Larrkspur, European, commonly grown in 

 flower-gardens in many forms, is annual, puberulent, l^°-3° high, with leaves 

 dissected into linear segments, the irregular showy, white, violet or blue flowers 

 with one sepal and two petals spurred, the single pubescent follicle 1' long or 

 less. 



Delphinium Consolida L., Field Larkspur, also European, mentioned by 

 Lefroy as grown in Bermuda gardens, is much like B. Ajacis, but the follicle 

 is glabrous. 



Aquilegia vulgaris L., European Columbine, European, a glabrous peren- 

 nial about 1^° liigh, with ternately decompound leaves, pale beneath, their 

 segments obtuse and crenate, the irregular purple or white flowers nearly 1' 

 long, the petals prolonged backward into incurved spurs, was grown in the 

 garden at Spring Valley m 1914. 



Nigella damascena L., Love-in-a-Mist, European, grown in flower-gardens, 

 is a glabrous annual, l°-2° high, with branched stems, finely dissected leaves 

 l'-2' long, and blue or white flowers about \V broad, the 5 ovate sepals decid- 

 uous, the 5 notched petals with hollow claws, the fruit a subglobose capsule 

 nearly 1' thick, with 5 spreading, persistent, styles, the numerous small seeds 

 black. 



Anemone japonica Sieb. & Zucc, Japanese Anemone, of Eastern Asia, 

 occasional in flower-gardens, is a softly pubescent perennial about 3° high, 

 with ternate, long-petioled, basal leaves, the few red or purple flowers about 

 2' broad, on long erect peduncles from a 3-leaved involucre, the 6-9 sepals 

 petaloid, the petals none. 



Family 6. BERBERIDACEAE T. & G. 



Barberry Family. 



Shrubs or herbs, with alternate or basal leaves, with or without stipules, 

 and solitary or racemed mostly terminal flowers. Sepals and petals gen- 

 erally imbricated in several series. Stamens as many as the petals and 

 opposite them, hypogynous. Flowers perfect and pistil one in our species. 

 Anthers extrorse, opening by valves (except in Podophyllum). Style 

 short; o\T^iles 2-°^, anatropous. Fruit a berry or capsule. About 20 

 g-enera and 105 species, widely distributed in the north temperate zone, the 

 Andes and temperate South America, a few in tropical regions. 



Berberis vulgaris L., European Barberry, of which the purple-leaved 

 race has been planted for ornament at the Public Garden, St. Georges, is a 

 glabrous, more or less spinescent shrub usually less than 10° high, with obovate, 

 short-petioled, obtuse, spinulose-dentate leaves 2' long or less, and small, yellow 

 flowers in drooping racemes, the sepals, petals and stamens 6, the fruit oblong 

 red or purple acrid berries about 5" long. 



Berberis Thunbergi DC, Thunberg's Barberry, Asiatic, seen at Cedar 

 Lodge in 1914, is a densely branching glabrous, spiny shrub, becoming, under 

 favorable conditions, about 6° high, with spatulate, entire leaves about V long, 

 the yellowish flowers solitary or 2 or 3 together in the axils, the ellipsoid fruit 

 bright red. 



Family 7. LAURACEAE Lindl. 



Laurel Family. 



Aromatic trees and shrubs, with alternate (very rarely opposite) mostly 

 thick, punctate estipulate leaves. Flowers mostly small, perfect, polyg- 

 amous, dioecious, or sometimes monoecious, usually fragrant, yellow or 



