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Lr-;EORE of Europe, and probably in other species of Helleborus, 

 as well as in Actcea spicata the baneberry of Europe and Adonis 

 vernalis the false hellebore of Europe and Asia. 



c. BERBERIDACE^ OR BARBERRY FAMILY.— The 

 plants of this family are herbs or shrubs with simple or compound 



Fig. 143. A group of transplanted plants, showing in the upper portion 

 a fruiting plant of blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thaliclroides) . 



leaves, and flov/ers either single or in racemes (Figs. 134, E; 

 81, T). The fruit is a berry or capsule. 



Berberis Aq^iifolmm (trailing mahonia) yields the official drug 

 berberis (p. 482). It is a low, trailing shrub with 3- to 7-com- 

 pound leaves (Fig. 142). The leaflets vary from oval to nearly 

 orbicular, are obtuse at the apex, slightly cordate at the base, 

 finely reticulate, and spinose-dentate. The flowers are yellow and 

 in dense terminal racemes. The fruit is a blue or purplish berry. 



