Okdee 6.— BEEBBEIDACE^. 217 



2. COCCULUS, DC. (Diminutive, from Lat. coccum, a berry.) 

 Fls. ? $ . Sepals, petals and stamens 6 ; antliers 4-celled ; ? ovaries 

 3 to 6 ; drupe globular-compressed, nut curved as in Menispermum. 

 — Fls. in axillary panicles. 



C. CaToliniinus DO. — In woods along rivers, S. III. to Ga. St. round, slender, 

 trailing. Lvs. pubeaoeut, at length glabrous above, broadly ovate or cordate, 

 mucronate, entire or sinuato-lobed, sometimes hastately 3-lobed, 2' to 3' diam., 

 petioles half as long. Fls. very small, greenish. Pet. of the sterile fls. with 

 inflected auricles at the base of each. Drupes rod, 1 — 3 together, 2" wide, the 

 nut curved almost into a cLrcle and finely crenated. Jn., Jl. 



3. CALYCOCARPUM, Nutt. Cup-sbbd. (Gr. KdXv^, a tcup ; 

 Kapnbg, fruit.) Sepals 6 ; petals ; $ stamens 12, anthers 2-celled ; 



$ stamens 6, abortive ; ovaries 3 ; stigma firabriate-radiato ; drupe 

 oval with the putamen deeply excavated in front and oup-shaped. — Fls. 

 greenish white, in long axillary panicles. 



C Lydni Nutt. G-a. (Mettauer) to Ky. A slender vine, very smooth, ascend- 

 ing many feet. Lvs. large, thin, 4 — 8' diara., the lobes dilated above and acumi- 

 nate. Petioles long, slender. Eac. slender, 3 — 12' long. Fls. small, 2" diam., 

 nearly white, about 5 on each pod. Drupe 1' long, oval. Jl. (Menispermum 

 Lyoni Ph.) 



Order VI. BERBERIDACE^.. Bbkbebids. 



Berbs or shniks with alternate, usually exstipulate, simple or compound leaves. 

 Flowers perfect, hypogynous, imbricated in asstivatioa. Galyx of 2 — 6 deciduous 

 sepals, in 1 or 2 rows, often with petaloid scales at base. Corolla of as many 

 or twice as many petals as sepals, in one to several rows. Slam, as many as the 

 petals and opposite to them, rarely more numerous. Antliers opening mostly by 

 recurved valves hinged at the top. Pistil one, style short or none. Ff. a berry or 

 capsule, seeds several, albuminous. (Figs. 168, 182, 253, 304, 346, 347, 444.) 



.\n order hard to define, including 12 ffenara and 10!) species^ some of them of widely different 

 babit and very doubtful affinities. They inhabit the temperate zones. Some eenera, as Podo- 

 pliyllum and iTefFersonia, possess catharic properties. Others, as Berberis, contain in tlieir fruits 

 malic and oxalic acid.<!. 



TEIBES AND GENERA. 



Tribe BlilRBERIDI-w-I-l — 'Shrubs. Embryo long as albumen. Anth. halved Eebebris. I 



Teibk NANDINEjK. — Herbs. Embryo short or minute. (*) 



* Anthers opening by 2 valves hinged at the top. (a) ' 



a Stamens 6. Fruit 2 drupe-like, soon naked seeds Caulophyllttm. 2 



a Stamens 6. Fruit a 2-^ seeded berry Dipuylleia. 3 



a Stamens 8. Fruit a capsule opening by a lid Jes-feksonia. 4 



* Anthers opening by 2 silts lengthvrise. Stam. 6 — 18 PoDOpnYLLirii. 5 



1. BERBERIS, L. Berberry. (Name from the Arabic.) Calyx 

 of 6 obovate, spreading, colored sepals, with the 3 outer ones smaller ; 

 corolla of 6 suborbicular petals, with two glands at the base of each ; 

 filaments 6, flattened ; anthers 2 separate lobes on opposite edges of 

 the connectile ; style ; berry oblong, 1-celled ; seeds 2 or 3. — Fine, 

 hardy shrubs. 



1 B. vulgaris L. Spines (reduced lvs.) 3-forked : lvs. simple, serratures termi- 

 nated by soft bristles; rac. pendulous, many-flowered; pet. entire. — A well- 

 known busby, ornamental shrub, in hard gravelly soils. Northern States. Grows 

 3 — 8f higli. Lvs. IJ — 2' long, half as wide, round-obtuse at apeic, tapering 



