EPIME'DIUM MUSSCHIA'NUM. 
mussch’s barren-wort. 
Class. Order. 
TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
BERBERIDACE.E. 
Native of j Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Japan, j 8 inches. 
April, Way. 
Perennial. 
in 1837. 
No. 1122. 
The derivation of the name, Epimedium, is en- 
veloped in much obscuiity ; some writers have, 
however, suggested that it is deduced from the 
Greek, epi, upon, and media, the native country 
of the plant. Musschianum was adopted as a 
specific name by Morren, in compliment, it may be 
supposed, to some continental botanist. 
Dr. Von Siebold, to whom Europe is so much 
indebted for his researches in Japan, introduced 
this plant amongst many others, to France, whence 
it was obtained by the nurserymen of England. It 
is not a plant possessing gaiety, or much show; but, 
as well as for its neat and rather elegant growth, 
the botanist will regard it with some interest, from 
its connexion with a shrub to which, at first sight, 
it would appear to possess no alliance, we mean 
the Barberry. This humble plant, fitted as it is 
for sheltered rock-work, or pot culture, must not 
be taken as a sample of the Flora of Japan, many 
of the flowers of which are of splendid character, 
especially the Liliaceae, of Siebold’s collections. 
As well as having benefited his country by these 
introductions, Dr. Von Siebold has assisted in the 
