. eable at a short fruit is oblong-oval, which at first is green, and,when ripe, is red, white, yellow, purple, or black,according to the variety; and it is so acid that birdsseldom touch it. Varieties. These are numerous. Those recognized by Messrs. De CandoUeand Don, are as follows:— 1. B. V. ALBA. Fruit white. 2. B. V. vioLACEA. Fruit violet-coloured. 3. B. v. PURPUREA. Fruit purple. 4. B. v. NIGRA. Fruit black; leaves oblong; ciliately serrated ; serratures few. 5. B. v. DULCis. Fruit red, less acid than the common
. eable at a short fruit is oblong-oval, which at first is green, and,when ripe, is red, white, yellow, purple, or black,according to the variety; and it is so acid that birdsseldom touch it. Varieties. These are numerous. Those recognized by Messrs. De CandoUeand Don, are as follows:— 1. B. V. ALBA. Fruit white. 2. B. V. vioLACEA. Fruit violet-coloured. 3. B. v. PURPUREA. Fruit purple. 4. B. v. NIGRA. Fruit black; leaves oblong; ciliately serrated ; serratures few. 5. B. v. DULCis. Fruit red, less acid than the common variety; leaves of abright, shining green. Native of Austria. 6. B. v. ASPERMA. Fruit destitute of seeds, in old plants. It is said by DuHamel, that this variety produces the best fruit for preserving; and it is from itthat the delicious cotijitiires (T epine vinette, for which Rouen is so celebrated,are made. Geography and History. The berberry is found wild in most parts of Europe,and in many parts of Asia and America. In the warmer parts of the two last-. THE COMMON BERBERRY. 35 named countries, it grows on mountains, and in the colder parts of Europe andAmerica, in plains, as in Norway, near Christiania, and in Massachusetts, north ofBoston. It also grows on Mount Lebanon, and on Mount JEtna: in which lastsituation it becomes a low shrub, in the upper zone of vegetation. In England itis found indigenous in woods and hedges, more especially on calcareous soils. Itis also indigenous in Scotland and Ireland, but not very common. It was doubt-less introduced into the United States from Europe, and has naturalized itself inwaste places, and about cultivated grounds in the northern states, and in theBritish American provinces. The plant is mentioned by Pliny; and, among mod-erns, it appears first to have been recorded by Bauhin, in his Pinax, and subse-quently by all the writers on plants, under different names, till the time of Ray,in 1686 and 1688, who first called it berberi
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