18i HEXANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Berberis. 



or more thin, membranous, deeply fringed, hracteas. The more 

 ovate pellucid bructeas, close to each ^o?ter, are also fringed. 

 Calyx-leaves lanceolate, acute, brown, with membranous edges. 

 Caps, shorter than the calyx, pale, elliptical rather than ovate, 

 bluntish, with a small deciduous point, originating in the base 

 of the style. Seeds with scarcely any crest. 



200. BERBERIS. Barbeny. 



Linn. Gen. 17 5. Juss.2S6. Fl.Br.387. Tourn.t. 385. Lam.t.253. 

 Garln. t. 42. 



Nat. Ord. doubtful. Linn. Berberides. Juss. 78. Berbe- 

 ridecE. DeCand. Syst. v. 2. ord. 8. 



Col. inferior, of 6 spreading, obovate, concave, coloured, 

 deciduous leaves : the 3 outer ones smallest. Pet. 6, op- 

 posite to the calj^x, and not much longer, roundish-ovate, 

 concave, spreading, deciduous; the short claw of each 

 bearing internally two oblong, more deeply coloured, pro- 

 bably nectariferous glands. Filam. linear, flattened, ob- 

 tuse, opposite to the petals, but shorter, attached to the 

 base of each. Anth. of 2 separate lobes, on the opposite 

 edges of the summit of the filament, each opening by a 

 valve, from the bottom upwards. Germ, superior, ellip- 

 tic-oblong. Style none. Stigma single, orbicular, broader 

 than the germen, acutely bordered, permanent. Berry 

 oblong, obtuse, of 1 cell, pulpy, opening at the top. Seeds 

 2 or 3, oblong, cylindrical, erect, attached by short stalks 

 to the lower part of the cell. 



Stem shrubby. Leaves alternate, stalked, serrated ; simple 

 or pinnate ; fringed or prickly at the edges ; the earliest 

 ones abortive, replaced by simple or divided thorns. Fl. 

 yellow, in clusters from lateral leafy buds. Berries very 

 acid. Juices of every part of the plant acid and astrin- 

 gent. The name is of Arabian origin. 



1. B. vulgaris. Common Barberry. 



Thorns three-cleft. Clusters pendulous. Leaves obovate- 

 oblong, with bristly serratures. Petals entire. 



B. vulgaris. Linn. Sp. PL 47 1. Willd. v.2.227 . Fl.Br.387. Engl. 



Bot. V. 1. t. 49. Tracts 165. fVoodv.suppl. t. 234. Hook. Scot. 



HI. DeCand. Syst. v. 2. 5. Fl. Dan. t. 904. Clus. Hist. v. I . 



120./. Camer.Epit. 86. f. 

 B. n. 828. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 369. 



B. dumetorum. Bauh. Pin. 454. RaiiSyn. 465. Mill. Ic. 42. t. 63. 

 Spinaacida, sive O.xyacantha. Ger. Em. 1325./. Dod,Pempt.749. 

 f. 750. 



