42 ARBORETUM Et FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Genus I. 
fallallal 
BE'RBERISL. Tux Bernerry. Lin. Syst. Hexandria Monogynia, 
Identification. Vin. Gen., 442.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 105 ; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 114. 
Synonymes. Pipperidge Bush; E/pine vinette, Fr.; Berberitze, Ger. 
Derivation. Berberys is the Arabic word used for this plant by Averrhoes and other writers on 
medicine ; but some persons derive the name from the Greek word berbe77, signifying a shell, from 
the leaves of the common species having a hollow surface. Bochart says that the word Bérberis is 
derived from the Phcenician word barar, which signifies shining like a shell, from their shining 
leaves. Gerard says that the word Berbery is a corruption of amyrberis, the name given to the 
plant by Avicenna. Du Hamel says that Bérbderis is derived from an Indian word signifying mother 
of pearl. Pipperidge bush, or piprage tree, Gerard says, is Dr. Turner’s name for the plant, and 
it is still given to it in Cambridgeshire. E/pine vinette signifies the acid, or sorrel, thorn, from 
the taste of the fruit and leaves, 
Gen, Char. Sepals 6, guarded on the outside by 3 scales. Petals 6, with 2 
glands on the inside of each. Stamens toothless. Berries 2—3-seeded. 
Seeds 2, rarely 3, laterally inserted at the base of the berries, erect, oblong, 
with a crustaceous coat and fleshy albumen. Cotyledons leafy, elliptical. 
Radicle long, capitellate at the tip. (Don’s Mill.) B. heterophylla Juss. has 
toothed stamens. 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous or evergreen; toothed 
or serrated, coriaceous, with numerous small leaves produced at the axils 
of the larger ones, often abortive in the form of prickles. Flowers yellow. 
Fruit red, in some kinds black, purple or white in others.— Shrubs natives 
of Europe, North America, and Asia; characterised in a general view by 
being crowded with suckers, and having axillary tufts of leaves and spines. 
The species are all readily propagated by seeds which most of them ripen 
in England ; and also by side suckers and root suckers, which almost all of 
them throw up in abundance. 
A. Leaves thin, deciduous. Flowers solitary, 
«1. B. stpr’rica Pall. The Siberian Berberry. 
fdcntification- Pall. Fl. Ross., 2. p. 42. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 108.; Don’s Mill., 1. p.117.; Pen. Cyc. 
4, p. 260. 
Synonymes. B. altaica Pal. ; Vinettier de Sibérie, Fr. 
Engravings. Pall. Fl. Ross., 2. t.67.; and our jig. 52. after Hayne, and 
Jig. 53. after Pallas. 
Spec. Char., ce. Spines 
3—7-parted. Leaves 
lanceolate-obovate, ci- 
liately serrated. Pe- 
duncles —_1-flowered, 
shorter than theleaves. 
(Don’s Miller.) An 
erect deciduous shrub, 
Siberia, on hills and 
the lower mountains. 
Height 2ft. to 3 ft. 
Introduced in 1790. 
Flowers yellow; May 
and June. Berry red ; 
52. Bérberis sibirica. ripe in September. 
53. Berberis sibirica. 
B. Leaves thin, mostly deciduous. Flowers in Racemes. 
% 2. B.vutea‘ris L. The common Berberry, 
Iientification. Lin. Sp., 472. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 105.; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 115. 
Synonymes. B. etnénsis Presl; B. macrocérpa of some; Pipperidge Tree, Dr. Turner ; E’pine 
vinette, F7.; gemeine Berberitze, Ger. 2 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 49.; Willd. Baum., t. 39. ; and our fig. 54.,in which @ is a specimen in 
flower, 6 a specimen in fruit, c a flower of the natural size, and d a fruit of the natural size, 
