52 BEEBERIDACEiE. (BAEBEREY FAMILY.) 



3. CALYCOCi-RPUM, Nutt. Cupseed. 



Sepals 6. Petals none. Stamens 12 in the sterile flowers, short: anthers 

 2-celled. Pistils 3, spindle-shaped, tipped with a radiate many-cleft stigma. 

 Drupe not incurved ; but the thin crustaceous putamen hollowed out like a cup 

 on one side. Embryo foliaceous, heart-shaped, — Flowers greenish-white, in 

 long racemose panicles. (Name composed of koKv^, a cup, and Kapiros, fruit, 

 from the shape of the shell.) 



1. C. Ly6ni, Nutt. (Menispennum Lyoni, PursA.) — Eich soil, S. Ken- 

 tucky and southward. May. — Stems climbing to the tops of trees. Leaves 

 large, thin, deeply 3 - 5-lobed, cordate at the base ; the lobes acuminate. Drupe 

 an inch long, globular, greenish ; the shell crested-toothed on the edge of the 

 cavity. 



. Order 5. BERBEKIDACEjE. (Barberry Family.) 



Shruhs or herbs, with the sepals and petals both imbricated in the bud in 

 two or more rows of 2-4: each ; the hypogynous stamens as many as the 

 ■petals and opposite to them : anthers opening by 2 valves or lids hinged at 

 the top. (Podophyllum is an exception, and Jefi'ersonia as respects the 

 sepals in one row.) Pistil single. Filaments short. Style short or none. 

 Fruit a berry or a pod. Seeds few or several, anatropous, with albumen. 

 Embryo small, except in Berberis. Leaves alternate. 



* Petals aod stamens 6. Fruit few-seeded. 



1. Berberis. Shrubs, with yellow flowers and wood ; a pair of glandular spots on the base of 



each petal. Fruit a berry. 



2. Caulopliyllum. Ilerb, with greenish flowers: petals thick, much shorter than the 



sepals. Ovary soon bursting ; the two seeds left naked. 



3. Dipliylleia. Herb with white flowers; petals much longer than sepals. Berry 2-4- 



seeded. 



»* Petals 6- 9 Stamens 8 -18. Fruit many-seeded. Herbs. 



4. Jeifersonla. Petals and stamens usually 3 ; anthers opening by uplifted valves. Pod 



opening by a lid. 

 6. Podophyjlum. Petals6-9. Stamens 12 -18 : anthers not opening by uplifted valves. 

 Fruit a large berry. 



1. BERBERIS, L. Barberry. 



Sepals 6, roundish, with 2-6 bractlets outside. Petals 6, obovate, concave, 

 witli two glandular spots inside above the short claw. Stamens 6. Stigma 

 circular, depressed. Pruit a 1 - few-seeded berry. Seeds erect, with a crusta- 

 ceous integument. — Shrubs, with yellow wood and inner bark, yellow flowers 

 in drooping racemes, sour berries, and 1 - 9-foliolate leaves. Stamens irritable. 

 (Derived from Berherys, the Arabic name of the fruit.) 



I. B. TULGX.RIS, L. (Co-inios Barberry.) Leaves scattered on the fresh 

 shoots of the season, mostly reduced to sharp triple or branched spines; from 

 which the next season jn-oceed rosettes or fascicles of obovate-oblong closely 

 bristly-toothed leaves (the short petiole jointed!), and drooping many-flowered 

 racemes; petals entire; lieiries oblong, scarlet. — Thickets and waste grounds in 



