BARBERRY FAMILY. 37 
1. BER’BERIS, DL. Barperry. 
[Name from the Arabic.] 
Sesals 6, roundish, bracteo- 
late. Petals 6 , obovate, with 2 
gland-like spats ear the base 
Inside. mens 6, 6. irritable. 
epressed. 
scattered on the e yo ung fie: 
mostly small with xglge obed 
margins, or redu rp 
triple spines, from hs fe of 
which, the next ‘season, are 
eet high, producing 
uckers. bout an 
iach pry a ‘half long and half an inch 
©. Racemes 2 inches or more in 
le . Berries shee half an sro 
England*and New Yor 
it. 
Obs. This shrub is a native of Europe, and thoroughly naturalized 
ot tg New England, and partially so in the State of New York. 
A native species (B, Pursh.) is found in the Aleem 
also in the Himalayas of India. In New England the 
abounds along the road sides ~_ is waste places, « often forming dense 
thickets or natural hedges ; it sometimes, though ra ves sek mes a tree- 
like rate It isa beautiful dees whethes bearing its graceful yellow : 
racemes of flowers in spring, or loaded with its coral-like berries in 
autumn. To those who observe plants closely, it ts several inter- 
as peculiarities ; its stamens when touched with a pin, or other hard 
manifest their ae maak springing suddenly towards the 
Pistil, whine they remain for ; the anthers have a curious con- 
Bio. 14. Barberry (Berberis raga nlarged. petal, Ghali Gi ‘costing | 
apots at the base. 16. A et ea, fn ae! a ev te ns 
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