2. BEEBERID ACEiE , 
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It is difficult to account for DC.’s very express reference (Syst. 
1. 348) of D. peregrinum L. (“ex herb, suo ”) to his D.junceum 
rather than to his D. cardiopetalum ; for certainly the specimen 
preserved in the Linn. Herb, has the limb of the 2 lower 
stalked or stipitate pet. plainly squarish-^ orbicular and cordate 
at the base/’ instead of “ elliptic or obovate ” as it is in D.jun- 
ceum DC. and in D. peregrinum BFG. iii. t. 68. f. 4672 ; which, 
with perhaps D. peregrinum FI. Gr. t. 506 and Desf. 1. 426, 
differ notably in this respect from the Linnaean type. 
Order II. BEBBEBID ACEiE. 
The Barberry Family. 
Sep. 3, 4 or 6 in a double row, deciduous. Pet. the same 
(rarely double) in number, opposite the sep., with glands at 
their base. Stam. opposite the pet. Anth. adnate, bursting by 
valves from the bottom to the top. Ov. 1, 1-celled. Fr. baccate 
or capsular indehiscent. Seeds attached to the base of the uni- 
lateral placenta. Embryo straight axile. — Shr. or herbs with 
bristle-serrate or spinulose-serrate compound or by abortion or 
suppression simple alternate exstipulate 1., and acid bitter juices. 
1. Berberis. Sep. 6, with 3 coloured scale-like br. outside. 
Pet. 6, each with 2 glands inside at the base. Berry 2- 
(rarely 3-) seeded. — Shr. often thorny and with fasciculate 
simple 1. ; fl. y. generally in racemes; juices, especially of 
the berries, acid and astringent. 
1. Berberis L. 
1. B. maderensis Lowe. Ameixeira d'espinho. 
Spines 3-partite ; 1. simple subspathulate or bluntly oblong- 
lanceolate and attenuated downwards, somewhat stiff and cori- 
aceous, very entire, reticulated with pale veins and slightly mar- 
ginate; racemes erecto-patent rather short and few-(6-8) Hd., 
fl. globose. — Shr. Mad. reg. 3 ; rr or rrr. High rocks in ravines. 
Brink of the upper part of the Bib. da Metade at a place called 
the “ Agoa de Bica,” on. the way from the Fonte das Mo^as to 
Pico dos Arrieros. Canhas, J. M. Moniz. May, June. — A low 
shr. from 3 to 5 feet high, with several arching st. about the 
thickness of the wrist or arm downwards ; the ultimate branches 
strongly striated or ribbed and of a bright rich or. or or. -chest- 
nut colour. L. few or remote and rather small in proportion, 
fasciculate, slightly pointed or blunt with a minute mucro ; 
from 1-1^ in. long and from in. broad ; their taste very 
bitter as well as astringently subacid. Bacemes scarcely longer 
than the 1. Fl. a little larger and more globose than in B. vul- 
