154 THE FLORA. 
1 B. vulga’ris. Common Barberry-bush. A well-known, bushy, handsome shrub, in 
hard soils, Grows 8-8f. high. Leaves oval, near 2’ long, rounded-obtuse at 
apex, tapering to a petiole, with bristly serratures on the margin, Flowers 
yellow, a dozen or more in each hanging raceme, with entire petals. Stamens 
irritable, springing against the stigma when touched. Berries red, very sour. 
June. 
2B. Aquifo/lium. Holly-leaved B. Leaves pinnate, of 7-18 thick, spiny-toothed 
leaflets. Shrub 8-df. high. Cal. + 
2. JEFFERSO’NIA. Twin-leaf. 
Sepals 4, colored, caducous. Petals 8, spreading. Stamens 8, with 
finear anthers. Pod on a short stipe, opening by a lid 2 Flowers and 
leaves from the root. Scape 1-flowered. (Figs. 375, 376.) 
J. diphylla. Ywin-leaf. A very curious plant, acaulescent. Leaves each with two 
blades, about 1f. high. Flowers same height, white. Root-stock black, with 
a thick mass of fibres, supposed good in rheumatism. M. W. 
3. PODOPHYL‘LUM. Mandrake. 
Sepals caducous. Petals 6-9, obovate, concave. Stamens 12-18, with 
linear anthers, the lids scarcely opening. Berry large, egg-shaped, 1-celled, 
crowned with the solitary stigma.—Low, somewhat poisonous herbs, with 
one or two leaves and one flower. 
P. pelta’tum. May Apple. Wild Mandrake. A singular and interesting plant, in 
woods and fields. Height about 1f. The barren plants bear but a single leaf, 
which is 5-8’ broad, 5-7-lobed, and centrally peltate. The flowering plants 
have a pair of leaves, with the flower at the fork of the two petioles—the leaves 
not peltate, but with a deeply-hollowed base, about 7-lobed. Flower droop- 
ing, white, about 2’ across. Fruit yellowish, with the flavor of the Strawberry. 
May. 
Orpver VIII—NELUMBIACEH. The Water-beans. 
Herbs aquatic, prostrate root-stock, and radical, peltate leaves, with 
flowers large, solitary, on long, upright scapes, 4 or 5-sepaled ; 
petals numerous, arranged in many rows, as are also the many stamens; 
ovaries separate, each with a simple style and stigma, becoming in 
Fruit 1-seeded nuts, half sink in the hollows of the very large torus, the 
seeds with a very large embryo and no albumen. 
