EEU15EKIS — HARBERRY. 



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short ; stigma oireuLar, depressed. Fruit a 1- to O-scodod berry ; seeds 

 erect, Avith a cnistaceoiiH integument. 



Shrubs with yellow inner bark and wood, bristly serrate, often spiny 

 1- t( D-foliate leaves. Yellow flowers in drooping racemes, and acid fruit. 



Berberis vulgaris Liune. — Common Barber ri/. 



Description. — Flower and fruit as in the generic description above. 

 Leaves on the young shoots mostly reduced to shf.rp triple or branched 

 spines ; on older branches they are produced in clusters or rosettes, and 

 are ovate-oblong, with sharp bristly teeth. The flowers, iu long di'oopiug 

 racemes, are produced from the axils 

 of these leaves. The berries are ob- 

 long, 2 seeded, scarlet, and possess a 

 gi'atefully acid and somewhat astrin- 

 gent taste. 



A shrub, 4 to 8 feet in height, 

 diffusely branched at the top, with a 

 whitish or light gray, shining bark 

 on the young shoots, and a much 

 darker gray on the old stems. Flow- 

 ers in May and June and matures its 

 fruit iu autumn. 



Habitat. — Common barbeny is a 

 native of Europe, but has become 

 naturalized and grows wild in some 

 sections of New England. It is com- 

 mon in cultivation all over the country 

 us an ornament; d shrub. 



Berberis Canadensis Pursh. — 

 A nwrican Jkirberri/. 



Description. — Flowers and fruit as 

 in the generic description above. 

 Petals notched at the apex. Leaves 

 : 1 pandly toothed, and less l)ristly 

 l)ointed than in preceding species, 

 llacemes fewer flowered. Berries oval. 



A shrub from 1 to 3 feet in height, 

 l)otanists a mere vanity of J}, vulgarity. Flowers in May and June. 



Habitat. — Mountainous regions from Virginia to Georgia. 



Berberis Aquifolium Pursh. — Holhj-h'.aved Jhrberry. 



Description. — Calyx : sepals suborbiculai", mendn'anaceous. Corolla : 

 petals connivent, the innermost bitid at the apex. Berries dark pui-ple. 



A shrub from 2 to 5 feet in height, with evergreen, pinnate leaves ; 

 leaflets in 3 to G pairs, with an odd terminal one, coriaceous, ovate-lanceo- 

 late or elliptical-oblong, inecjuilateral or slightly cordate at the base, repaud 



Fic. lul.— Borlicris vulpraris. 



Formerly considered by many 



