Berberis canadensis, 
THE CANADIAN BERBERRY. 
Synonymes. 
Berberis canadensis, 
Epine vinette du Canada, 
Canadischer Berberitzbeerenstrauch, 
Barberry Bush, 
' De Candolle, Prodromus. 
Don, Miller's Dictionary. 
Nuttall, Genera of North American Plants. 
Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. 
k Torrey and Gray, Flora of North America. 
France. 
Germany. 
Anglo-America. 
Engravings. Audubon, Birds of America, pi. clxxxviii. ; Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum, figure 48 ; and the figures below. 
Specific Characters. Spines 3-parted. Leaves obovate-oblong, remotely serrated, upper ones nearly 
entire. Racemes many-flowered, nodding. Don, Miller's Diet. 
Description. 
HE Canadian Berberry is a low shrub, not exceeding five 
* feet in height, with stems, roots, and flowers yellow, as in 
the preceding species. The leaves are much smaller and 
^C^F narrower, attenuate at the base, but nearly sessile. The 
flowers which put forth in May and June, are also smaller than those of the 
Berberis vulgaris, and the fruit is smaller and shorter, of a red colour, and less 
sour. It grows on fertile hills, and among rocks, especially in the Alleghany 
Mountains, and, on the authority of Pursh, it is found in Canada. Torrey and 
Gray remark that, " This indigenous species, very distinct from the Berberis 
vulgaris, with which it has been in some degree confounded, is probably a native 
of the southern states only ; the barberry of the New England states, and, doubt- 
less, of Canada, being the European species, and certainly not indigenous. Our 
species was first noticed, apparently, by Marshall, who states that he has a dif- 
ferent species of barberry growing near New River, Virginia. Original specimens, 
collected and named by Pursh, exist in the herbarium of the late Professor Bar- 
ton, now deposited in the rooms of the American Philosophical Society, Phila- 
delphia." This shrub was cultivated in England in 1759. 
