BER'BERIS RE'PENS. 
CREEPING BARBERRY. 
Class. 
hexandria. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
BE RBE RID ACE AS. 
Native of 1 Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
N. America) 2 feet. 
June to Aujr. 
o 
Shrub. 
in 1824. 
No. 1185. 
Berberis, an old name for a wild berry. 
We have, more than once or twice, solicited atten- 
tion to this most interesting genus of shrubs; none, 
of late years, has so much increased in importance. 
It should be observed that we include with Ber- 
beris, what are sometimes called Mahonias, their 
distinction resting on a foundation too trivial to 
be adopted ; indeed, the real circumstances con- 
nected with the leaves of those species called Malio- 
nia, seem to have been overlooked. The so-called 
Mahonia is observed to have compound leaves, as 
depicted in our figure, whilst the Berberis has leaves 
which are simple, like the common fruiting one of 
our gardens, but the lamina or expanded portion is 
articulated or jointed with the petiole, indicating its 
nature to be that of a compound leaf ; and as such 
it is by botanists esteemed. A case in point occurs 
m the Floral Register of the present number, (figure 
2818) where Jasminum gracile has a simple leaf, 
but it is not on such account separated from the 
Jasminums with compound leaves. Here, too, the 
simple leaf has the indication that it is but a slight 
departure from the compound, by the presence of a 
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