VI. RERBERA^CEJE : BEfRHERIS. 



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(Don's Mill.} A deciduous shrub, crowded with shoots. Crete, Candia, 

 and, perhaps, Japan. Height 3 ft. to 4 ft. Introduced in 1759. Flowers 

 yellow ; May and June. Berries ovate, black ; ripe in September. De- 

 caying leaves whitish yellow. Naked young wood also whitish. 

 The leaves are produced without any obvious order ; they are small, and in 

 their shape they resemble those of the narrow leaved variety of the common 

 box. The berries are ovate, black, 2-seeded, more astringent than acid ; 

 stigma on a very short style. 



ffi 5. B. (v.) CRAT^'GINA Dec. The Crataegus-like Berberry. 



Identification. Dec. Syst., 2. p. 9.; Don's 



Mill., l.p. 116. 

 Engraving. Our Jig. 59. from a specimen 



in the Hort. Soc. Garden. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Spines simple. 

 Leaves oblong, reticulated, 

 hardly serrated. Racemes 

 many-flowered, crowded, 

 spreading, scarcely longer 

 than the leaves. (Don's Mill.) 

 A deciduous glaucous-leaved 

 shrub. Asia Minor. Height 

 4 ft. to t> ft. Introduced in 

 1823. Flowers yellow ; May 

 and June. Berries red ; ripe 

 in September. 



Distinguished from all the 

 other species, by the leaves being 

 long, flaccid, entirely glaucous, 



Or Whitish Young shootS brOWn. & WrberU crata.gina, nat. sire. 



A plant bearing this name in the Horticultural Society's Garden is 5 ft. 

 high, with the leaves much longer than those of B. vulgaris ; serrated, as in 

 that species, and decidedly glaucous. In other respects we can see no 

 difference. 



& 6. B. IBE'RICA Stev. The Iberian Berberry. 



Identification. Don's Mill., 1. p. 115. ; and Lindl., Pen. Cyc., 4. p. 61. 

 Synonyrnes. B. vulg^ris ? v. iberica Dec. Syst. 2. p. 6. ; B. sinensis Wai. 

 Engravings. Dend. Brit., t. 26., as B. sinensis ; and our fig. GO. 



Spec. Char., Sf-c. Spines simple, and 3-parted ; leaves obovate- 

 oblong, quite entire. Racemes many-flowered ; petals entire. 

 (Don's Mil/.) A deciduous shrub. Iberia. Height 3 ft. to 

 5ft. Introduced in 1790. Flowers yellow; May and June. 

 Berries dark purple ; ripe in September. Decaying leaves yel- 

 lowish red. Naked young wood reddish yellow. 

 Readily distinguished from the common berberry by its smaller ^ 

 and smoother leaves, its red shoots, and its almost upright racemes ; * 

 and from B. sinensis by the leaves being comparatively entire. 



34 7. B. CANADE'NSIS Mill. The Canadian Berberry. 



Identification. Pursh's Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 219. ; Dec. Prod, 1. p. 106- ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 115. 



Tor. and Gray, 1. p. 50. 

 Synonyrnes. B. vulgaris MX. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. p. 205.; B. vulgSris var. canad^nsis Martyn't 



Jf///.,No.l. 

 Engruvings. Hayne Abbild., t. 63. ; and our fig. 61. after that author. 



Spec. Char., $c. Branches verrucose, dotted, with short triple spines ; leaves 

 spatulate, oblong, remotely serrate, with somewhat bristly teeth ; racemes 

 sub-corymbose, few-flowered ; petals emarginate ; berries subglobose, or 

 oval. (Tor. and Gray.) A deciduous shrub. Canada to Georgia. Height 

 2ft. to 3ft., in England 5ft. Introduced in 1759. Flowers yellow; 



