708 455. Berberis. 84. BERBERIDEiE. PI. ex. that. 
Berber is vulgaris. Common barberry . 
Racemes simple, pendulous ; leaves reverse ovate, fringed, 
toothed. 
Berberis dumetorura, Raii Syn. 4 65. 
Spina acidasive Oxyacantha, Ger . em. 1325, 1. 
Berberis, Park. 1559. 
Berberis vulgaris, Lin. S. P. 471. 
Barberry bush. Pipperidge tree. 
Woods and hedges; shrubby; May and June. 
Branches angular, bald ; leaves in bundles, petioled ; 
spines 3 together; racemes solitary, many-flowered; flowers 
vellow; berry scarlet. — Root dyes wool and leather yellow; 
bark renders wine purgative ; inner bark with alum dyes 
linen yellow; leaves acid, eaten as sauce; flowers offensive 
to the smell when too near ; berries acid, not eaten by birds, 
boiled with sugar form a pleasant confection. Is supposed 
by some to cause wheat growing near it to become mil- 
dewed ; but this is denied by others. 
II. 456. EPXMEDIUM. Dioscorides. Barrenwort . 
Outer sepales 2, inner 4; sepales spreading; petals 4; 
nectariferous scale 1, petal-like, cupshape, coloured, at the 
inner base of each petal ; stamens 4 ; style lateral, from the 
top of the ovary; stigma simple; pericarpium oblong, 
1 -celled, 2-valved, many-seeded. 
Ep medium alpinum. Alpine barrenwort. 
Epimedium, Ger. em. 480. 
Epimedium alpinum, Lin. S. P. 171. 
Shady alpine situations ; perennial ; May. 
Rhizoma horizontal; leaves upright, solitary, irregularly 
ternately compounded, flower-bearing ; leaflets petioled, 
heartshaped, drooping, pointed, light green, glaucous be- 
neath; panicle from a kneejoint towards the middle of the 
main petiole, upright, slightly racemose ; flowers droop- 
ing ; petals dark red ; nectaries yellow r . 
Earn. XX. 85. RANUNCULACEiE. Jussieu. 
Calyx 3 to 6 sepales, free; petals 5 to 10, hypogynous; 
stamens 5 or many and indefinite, hypogynous; anthers 
adnate, 2-celled, mostly fastened on the outside of the fila- 
ments; ovaries many, indefinite, inserted on the receptacle, 
1-styled; pericarpia 1-seeded, not opening, (cariopsides), or 
many-seeded, opening by longitudinal sutures, (camares ;) 
perisperm horny; corculum much swollen, at the tip or 
