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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



upwards six trimerous verticils, belonging two to the calyx, 1 

 two to the corolla, and two to the androceum. The sepals are 



Berberis vulgaris. 



Fig. 49. 

 Leaf-bearing branch. 



Fig. 50. 

 Flowering branch. 



free and petaloid, imbricated in the bud, and caducous. The 

 petals, also imbricated in the bud, are apparently each superposed 



Gen., 286. — G.&BTN., Fruct., i. 200, t. 42. — 1 There is often a third external verticil, and 



Lamk., Diet., viii. 615; III., t. 253. — DC, even a fourth, complete or incomplete, to the 



Prodr., i. 105. — Spach, Suit, a, Buffon, viii. calyx. The leaves of these whorls are shorter as 



35, — Endl., Qen., n. 4814. — B. H., Gen., 43, they are more exterior or inferior, and have often 



V)64, n. 8. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, ii. 272, 285, been deemed bracts. They are, however, quite 



230. like the sepals. 



