32 : Berberidea—Lerberidopsts. 
simple, glabrous, petiolate, oblong-cordate, obtuse or acute, 
spiny-toothed. Flowers crimson, in terminal drooping racemes, 
leafy at the base. A handsome subscandent shrub from Chili. 
3. EPIMEDIUM. 
A small genus of elegant compound-leaved dwarf herbs 
with creeping rhizomes. Leaves ternately or pinnately divided. 
Flowers in terminal, simple or branched racemes. Sepals 8, 
petaloid, flat, the four outer smaller. Petals 4, small, cucullate, 
or spurred. Stamens 4, Carpel 1, many-seeded. Confined 
to temperate Europe and Asia. A Greek name applied to a 
similar plant. 
1. E. alpinwm (fig. 24).—One of the prettiest, though not 
so large flowered as some of the others. It grows about a foot 
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Tig, 24. Epimedium alpinum. (4 nat. size.) 
high, with slender hard and shining stems and petioles. Flowers 
brown and yellow. A native of the Alps, flowering in May. 
2. #. vielceuin.—Has narrow leaflets and violet flowers. A 
native of Japan. 
3. £. macréuthum.—This is the handsomest of the genus, 
