BARBERRY 



283 



(a) Floral axis devoid of a disc, or at most [For (p) 

 there are traces of glands beneath the see ^' ^ 

 ovary. 



* Petals and sepals in whorls of 3, all alike 

 in colour, golden yellow (petaloid); carpel 

 single; stamens 6, anthers valvate. 



t Flowers in simple racemes, terminating the 

 dwarf shoots ; berry oblong, orange- scarlet ; 

 leaves simple, some as spines. 



Berberis vulgaris, Barberry (Figs. 104, 105). Spinose 



Fig. 104. Barberry, Berberis vulgaris. A, ordinary foliage shoot; 

 B, flowering shoot, p. 283 (E and P). 



