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y mum L.; Wendlandia Willd. ; Andréphilax Wendl. 
Derivation. From coccus, the systematic name of cochineal ; which is applied to this genus on 
account of the greater number of the species bearing scarlet berries. 
Gen, Char, Sepals and petals disposed in a ternary order, in 2, very rarely in 
3, series. Male flowers with 6 tree stamens opposite the petals ; female ones 
with 3 or 6 carpels. Drupes baccate, 1 to 6, usually obliquely reniform, 
somewhat flattened, l-seeded. Cotyledons distant. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous ; cordate or ovate, entire 
or lobed. Flowers small.— The only hardy species is C. carolinus, a native 
of Carolina, of the same culture as Menispérmum. 
2 1, Co’ccuLus caroLt'nus Dec. The Carolina Cocculus. 
Identification. Dec. Prod., 1. p. 98. ;-Don’s MiM., 1. 
p. 107. 
Synonymes. Menispérmum carolinum Lin.; Wend- 
landia populifolia Willd., Pursh, and Dill.; André- 
hilax scfndens Wendl.; Baumgfrtéa scandens 
foench; Ménisperme de la Caroline, Fr.; Caroli- 
nischer Mondsaame, Ger. 
Engravings. Dil. Elth., 223. t. 178. f. 219.; Wendl. 
Obs., 3. t.16.; and our fig. 51. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves cordate or ovate, 
entire, obtuse, and somewhat 3-lobed ; 
under surface velvety pubescent. Male 
racemes floriferous from the base, female 
ones 3-flowered. (Don’s Mill.) A twin- 
ing, deciduous, suffruticose shrub. North pry 
Carolina and Georgia. Height 6 ft. to NY 
10 ft. Introduced in 1759. Flowers {\\S 
small, greenish ; June and July. Fruit \ 
ted; ripe in September. Decaying 
leaves yellowish or brownish. 
Leaves extremely variable in form, 2 in. 
to 4in. long, often quite entire, but Rare ; 
usually with several sinuated, obtuse lobes. Pieper eres 
Drupe red, as large as a small pea. 
Orpver VI. BERBERACEZ. 
Orb. CHAR. Sepals usually 6, in two whorls, deciduous, and furnished with 
petal-like scales on the outside. The petals are equal in number with the 
sepals, and the stamens equal in number with the petals, and opposite to 
them. The azthers “open by reflexed valves; that is to say, the face of 
each cell of the anther peels off except at the point, where it adheres as if 
it were hinged there ;” astructure so remarkable, Dr. Lindley observes, as to 
be “found in no European plants except Berberdcee and the Jaurel tribe.” 
(Penny Cyc., vol. iv. p. 259.) — Bushy shrubs, which throw up numerous 
suckers ; natives of the temperate climates of Europe, Asia, and North 
America, 
Leaves simple or compound, alternate, generally exstipulate, deciduous 
or persistent ; shoots generally furnished with prickles; the sap, and the 
colour of the leaves and bark, more or less yellow. Flowers generally 
yellow. — The genera containing species hardy in British gardens are two, 
Bérberis and Mahonia, which are thus contradistinguished : — 
Brneeris L. Petals with 2 glands on the inside of each. Stamens tooth- 
less. Leaves undivided. 
Mano‘ni4 Nutt. Petals without glands. Stamens furnished with a tooth on 
each side. Leaves pinnate. 
