708 4^55. Berberis. 84. BERBERIDEiE. PI. ex. thai. 



Berleris vulgaris. Common barberry. 



Racemes simple, pendulous ; leaves reverse ovate, fringed, 

 toothed. 



Berberis dumetoruin. Rati S^n. 465. 



Spina acidasive Oxyacantha, Ger. em. 1325, 1. 



Berberis, Park. 1559. 



Berberis vulgaris, Lin. S. P. 471. 



Barberry busk. Pipperidge tree. 



Woods and hedges; shrubby; May and June. 



Branches angular, bald ; leaves in bundles, petioled; 

 spines 3 together ; racemes solitary, many-flowered ; Jioiuers 

 yellow; berry scarlet. — Root dyes wool and leather yellow; 

 bark renders wine purgative; inner bark with alum dyes 

 linen yellow; leaves acid, eaten as sauce; flowers offensive 

 to the smell when too near ; berries acid, not eaten by birds, 

 boiled with sugar form a pleasant confection. Is supposed 

 by some to cause wheat growing near it to become mil- 

 dewed ; but this is denied by others. 



II. 456. EPIMEDIUM. Dioscorides. Barrenwort. 



Outer sepales 2, inner 4; sepales spreading; petals 4; 

 nectariferous scale 1, petal-like, cupshape, coloured, at the 

 inner base of each petal ; stamens 4 ; style lateral, from the 

 top of the ovary; stigma simple; pericarpium oblong,- 

 1-celled, 2-valved, many-seeded. 



Epimedium alpinum. Alpine barrenwort. 



Epimedium, Ger. em. 480. 

 Epimedium alpinum, Lin. S. P. 171. 



Shady alpine situations ; perennial ; May. 



Rhizoma horizontal ; leaves upright, solitary, irregularly 

 ternately compounded, flower-bearing ; leaflets petioled, 

 heartshaped, drooping, pointed, light green, glaucous be- 

 neath ; panicle from a kneejoint towards the middle of the 

 main petiole, upright, slightly racemose ; flowers droop- 

 ing ; petals dark red ; nectaries yellow. 



Fam. XX. 85. RANUNCULACEiE. Jussieu. 



Calyx .3 to 6 sepales, free; petals 5 to 10, hypogynous; 

 stame7is 5 or many and indefinite, hypogynous; anthers 

 adnate, 2-celled, mostly fastened on the outside of the fila- 

 ments; ovaries many, indefinite, inserted on the receptacle, 

 1-styled; pericarpia 1-sceded, not opening, (cariopsides), or 

 many-seeded, opening by longitudinal sutures, (camares ;) 

 perisperm horny; corcukim much swollen, at the tip or 



