3 2 Berberidecz Berberidopsis. 



simple, glabrous, petiolate, oblong-cordate, obtuse or acute, 

 spiny-toothed. Flowers crimson, in terminal drooping racemes, 

 leafy at the base. A handsome subscandent shrub from Chili. 



3. EPIMEIDIUM. 



A small genus of elegant compound-leaved dwarf herbs 

 with creeping rhizomes. Leaves ternately or pinnately divided. 

 Flowers in terminal, simple or branched racemes. Sepals 8, 

 petaloid, flat, the four outer smaller. Petals 4, small, cucullate, 

 or spurred. Stamens 4. Carpel 1, many-seeded. Confined 

 to temperate Europe and Asia. A Greek name applied to a 

 similar plant. 



1. E. alplnum (fig. 24). One of the prettiest, though not 

 so large flowered as some of the others. It grows about a foot 



Fig. 24. Epimedium alpinum. (J nat. size.) 



high, with slender hard and shining stems and petioles. Flowers 

 brown and yellow. A native of the Alps, flowering in May. 

 2. E. violaceum. Has narrow leaflets and violet flowers. A 

 native of Japan. 



3. E. macrdnthum. This is the handsomest of the genus,, 



