Vox,. II.] 



CROWFOOT FAMILY. 

 28. ADONIS L. Sp. PI. 547. 1753. 



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Erect, annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, pinnately dissected into numerous 

 linear segments. Flowers yellow or red, solitary, terminal. Petals 5-16, conspicuous. Car- 

 pels co , i-ovuled. Achenes capitate or spicate, tipped with the persistent styles. [Mytho- 

 logical name for a favorite of Venus, changed into a flower.] 



A genus of showy-flowered plants, natives of the north temperate regions of Europe and Asia, 

 consisting of the following and about five other species. 



i. Adonis annua L. Pheasant's 

 Eye. (Fig. 1639.) 



Adonis annua L. Sp. PI. 547. 1753. 



Adonis autumnalis L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 771. 1763. 



Annual, erect, i-2 high, branched, gla- 

 brous. Leaves finely dissected, the lower 

 petioled, the upper sessile, the segments 

 acute; sepals smooth, deciduous; flowers 9"- 

 i8 // broad, nearly globular, orange or red, 

 the petals obovate, and darker colored at the 

 base; achencs spicate, rugose or angular. 



Commonly cultivated for ornament; spon- 

 taneous in gardens and occasionally escaped 

 into waste places, especially southward. Fugi- 

 tive from Europe. Summer. 



Family'a;. BERBERIDACEAE T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: /> 1838. 



BARBERRY FAMILY. 



Shrubs or herbs, with alternate or basal, simple or compound leaves, with or 

 without stipules, and solitary or racemed mostly terminal flowers. Sepals and 

 petals generally imbricated in several series (2-many). Stamens as many as the 

 petals and opposite them, hypogynous. Flowers perfect and pistil one in all 

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

 Style short; ovules 2-00 , anatropous. Fruit a berry or capsule. 



About 20 genera and 105 species, widely distributed in the north temperate zone, the Andes and 

 temperate South America, a few in tropical regions. 



Shrubs; fruit baccate. I. Berberis. 



Herbs. 



Anthers opening by valves. 



Pericarp early bursting, leaving two large naked stalked seeds, resembling berries. 



2. Caulophyllum. 



Fruit baccate ; stamens 6. 3. Dibhylleia. 



Fruit capsular, half circumscissile. 4. Jeffersonia. 



Anthers longitudinally dehiscent; fruit baccate; stamens 6-18. 5. Podophyllum, 



i. BERBERIS L. Sp. PI. 330. 1753. 



Shrubs with yellow wood, simple or compound often spiny leaves, and yellow racemose 

 (rarely solitary) flowers. Sepals 6-9, petaloid, bracted. Petals 6, imbricated in 2 series, 

 each with 2 basal glands. Stamens 6, irritable, closing around the stigma when shocked; 

 anthers dehiscent by valves opening from the apex. Pistil i ; stigma peltate. Berry i-few- 

 seeded. [From the Arabic name.] 



A genus of about 75 species, natives of North America, Europe, northern Asia and South Amer- 

 ica. Besides the following, about 10 others are found in the western parts of North America. 



Leaves simple ; racemes drooping; berries scarlet. 



Twigs ash-colored ; racemes many-flowered; petals entire. i. B.'vulgaris. 



Twigs dark brown ; racemes few-flowered; petals notched. 2. B. Canadensis. 



Leaves pinnate; racemes erect; berries blue or purple. 3. B. Aquifolium. 



