Order I. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
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4909;The only species, resembling an Agave 
4910 Stem leafy panicled. Racemes divaricating, Leaves lanceolate wavy 
4911 Scape naked branched. Racemes erect. Leaves linear lanceolate flat 
4912 Leaves pinnated. Leaflets whorled lanceolate acute 3-pointed 
4913 Radical leaves biternate ; cauline ternate. Fruit oVate 
4914 Cauline leaf triternate ; floral biternate 
4915 Quite smooth. Leaves palmate angular lobed serrated with taper-pointed lobes 
4916 Leaves obovate lanceolate acuminate doubly serrated, Veins beneath hairy 
4917 Leaves oval pointed at each end mucronate serrulate pubescent beneath. Female flowers solitary 
4918 Leaves lanceol. serrated acuminate smooth on each side, Flowers all G-cleft 
4919 Leaves lanceol. very finely and distantly serrated acute at each end quite smooth, Male flow. 3-androiis 
4920 Leaves lanceol. obt. smooth serrated at end 
4921 Leaves elliptical acuminate smooth somewhat serrated at end 
4922 Racemes simple pendulous. Leaves obovate ciliate-toothed 
4923 Branches dotted. Prickles in 3s, Lvs. simple obovate remotely toothed. Racemes short, Fruit globular 
4924 Spines 3-partcd, Leaves oval with a few large spiny teeth. Fed. short 4-fl. Pedicels elongate corymbose 
4925 Spines 3-5-parted, Leaves oval-oblong entire or serrated. Racemes 3-8-flow. almost shorter than leaves 
4926 Spines 3-7-parted, Leaves lanceolate obovate ciliate-toothed. Peduncles 1-flowered shorter than leaf 
4927 Spines 3-parted, Leaves lanceolate obovate ciliate serrate. Racemes pendulous, Petals emarginate 
4928 Spines 3-parted very few. Leaves obi. obtuse entire or a little toothed. Racemes many-fl. nodding 
4929 Lvs. pinnated in 4 or 5 pairs, Leaflets ovate lanceolate spreading toothed, Racemes erect much clustered 
4980 Spines simple scarcely two-toothed at base, Lvs. obi. with 4 or 5 spiny teeth. Racemes spreading many-fl. 
4931 Spines 3-parted, Lvs. ovate lanceolate smooth some entire some three-toothed. Pedicels solitary one-flow. 
4932 Leaves supra-decompound with lane, entire leaflets 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
with the bark of the root. The inner bark of the stems also will dye linen of a fine yellow, with the assist- 
ance of alum. Kme, sheep, and goats are said to eat it j horses and swine to refuse it. This species varies 
with red, purple, pale yellow, and stoneless fruit. 
Insects of various kinds are remarkably fond of the flowers of the barberry ; and the iEcidium Berberidis, 
Its particular inhabitant, is supposed to generate the dust which, carried from the bush by winds, and lighting 
on wheat and other growing corns, gives rise to the Puccinia, a minute fungus, which closes up the pores of the 
leaves, and appears like rust or mildew. {Sir J. Banks on Blight, <^c.) Many highly respectable authorities 
m Britain, on the continent, and in America, are in favor of and against this opinion, Willdenow, Withering, 
and Dwight have stated various remarkable cases on good authority. Sir J. Banks and his draughtsman 
Bauer proved the fact of the mildew being a fungus. 
Linnaus observed, that when bees in search of honey touch the filaments, the anthers approximate to the 
stigma and explode the pollen. Sir J. Smith ascertained that the same effect is produced by touching the 
»"side of the filaments with a small bit of stick. {Phil. Trans, vol. Ixxviii. 1. 158.) 
T, -,• .^1^?.°*'^^'^ species are much esteemed as ornamental plants. B. aristata is a fine hardy evergreen shrub. 
«. liicitolia and emarginata are also hardy, but less ornamental. B. fascicularis is a beautiful ornamental 
"early hardy shrub, remarkable for its pinnated leaves. 
830. Artndmrt. Nandin is the name of this shrub in Japan, where it is a garden shrub : the flowers are in 
?f,!i'J? ^Il- succeeded by berries of the size of a pea. In the greenhouse it grows freely in loam and peat, and 
BQ^ \eaves on, root in sand under a hand-glass. 
Vinl J^a^ed by Commerson, after M. de Cossigny, a French naturalist, then living at Pondicherry. 
rine plants with handsome pinnated leaves. 
832. Hillia So named by Jacquin, in honor of Sir John Hill, author of many large works on botany and 
oiner parts of natural history, as well as general literature. Owing to some differences with his contemporaries, 
m,w,il^ ^"^ against the Royal Society, after being rejected as a fellow, his memory in England has not met with 
raucn respect ; m truth it was but little that it deserved. The species are of easv culture, and cuttings root 
reaaiiy in sand. ^ 
