. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 48 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM liRITANNICUM. -B 12. B. heterophy'lla Jus. The various-leaved Berberry. Identification. Juss. in Poir. Diet., 8. p. , Dec. Prod., 1. p. 108.; Don's Mill., 1. p. 117.; Lindl., Pen. Cyc, 4. p. 261. Synonymes. B. ilicif&lia Forst. \ B. triscupidMa Smith.
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 48 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM liRITANNICUM. -B 12. B. heterophy'lla Jus. The various-leaved Berberry. Identification. Juss. in Poir. Diet., 8. p. , Dec. Prod., 1. p. 108.; Don's Mill., 1. p. 117.; Lindl., Pen. Cyc, 4. p. 261. Synonymes. B. ilicif&lia Forst. \ B. triscupidMa Smith. Engravings. Hook. £xot. Fl,, ; and our Jig. 67. Spec. Char., Ifc. Spines 3-parted. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, some of them entire, others furnished with 3 pungent teeth. Pedicels solitary, 1-flowered, hardly longer than the leaves. Filaments toothed. {Don's Mill.) An evergreen shrub. Straits of Magellan. Height 3 ft. to 4 ft. Introduced in 1823. Flowers orange yellow ; May and June. Berries red ; ripe in September. Decaying leaves greenish yellow; June and July. Much branched, and the older branches covered with dark -"^ wrinkled bark. The leaves clustered, and of two kinds; the old ones terminated with a sharp spinose point, and having ,^^^ ^ a lateral spinule on each side above the middle, and the jj. b. heierophjiia. younger ones being pale green, unarmed, and having their margins entire and softish. The old leaves are also quite rigid, dark green, and shining. Jt 13. B. £MPETBIFO*LIA Lam. The Empetrum-leaved Berberry. Lam. 111., t. Lam. 111., fls Dec. Prod., 1. p. 107.; Don's Mill., 1. p. 117. ; Pen. Cyc, 4. p. 261. 4.; , 2. s. ; and our^.68. Engravings. Spec. Char., S^c. Spines 3-parted. Leaves linear, quite entire, vrith revolute margins. Pedicels 1â2, I-flowered. (Dun's Mill.) An elegant, decumbent, evergreen bush. Cordilleras of Chili in subalpine woods. Height 1 ft. to 2 ft. Intro- duced in
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