46 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
May and June. Berries red; ripe in September. De- 
caying leaves yellowish green and reddish. Naked young 
wood whitish yellow. 
Leaves much smaller and narrower than in B. vulgaris, 
attenuate at the base, but nearly sessile; the margins serru- 
late, with 6-8 distant, often inconspicuous, mucronate teeth. 
Raceme 5-8-flowered, nodding ; flowers smaller than in B. 
vulyaris ; fruit smaller and much shorter, Stem and roots 
yellow; the former rarely exceeding 3 ft.in height. Found 
in the Alleghany Mountains, Virginia and Carolina, Tenessee, 
and Georgia. (Tor. and Gray.) Introduced into England in 
1759, but probably lost, as we have seen no plant answering 61, z. (v.) ca-adénsis. 
this description in British gardens. 
% 8, B. stne’nsis Desf. 
Identification. Desf. Catal. Hort. P., 150.5 
Dec. Prod., 1. p.106.; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 115. 
Synonyme. B. vulgrris Thunb. Jap.\, p. 146. 
Engravings. Our figs. 62. and 63. from a spe= 
cimen in the Hort. Soc. Garden. 
Spec. Char., Sc. Spines 3-parted. 
Leaves oblong, obtuse, entire, or 
the lower ones a little toothed. 
Racemes many-flowered, nodding. 
(Don's Mill.) A deciduous shrub 
with slender shoots. China. ™ 
Height 3ft. to 5ft. Introduced 
in 1800. Flowers yellow ; May 
and June. Berries oval, dark red ; 
ripe in September. Leaves 
smooth, sharply serrated. Decay- 
ing leaves of a fine yellowish red. 
Naked young wood reddish yel- 
low. 
The plant at the Horticultural 
Society’s Garden, and at Messrs. 
Loddiges’s, has smooth leaves, red 
shoots, and closely resembles Bérberis ibérica. 
The Chinese Berberry. 
62. BA beris sménsis. 
63. Bérberis sinénsis, nav. atze. 
