An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . s and thickets, Hudson Bay toManitoba, Connecticut, Virginia and to 3000 ft. in the Catskills. Mountain-or Whorl-leaved-clematis. May-Iune. Family 32. BERBERIDACEAE T. & G. Fl. X. X. i: 49. \RBERRV or herbs, with alternate or basal, simple or compound leaves, with orwithout stipules, and solitary or racemed mostly terminal flower
An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . s and thickets, Hudson Bay toManitoba, Connecticut, Virginia and to 3000 ft. in the Catskills. Mountain-or Whorl-leaved-clematis. May-Iune. Family 32. BERBERIDACEAE T. & G. Fl. X. X. i: 49. \RBERRV or herbs, with alternate or basal, simple or compound leaves, with orwithout stipules, and solitary or racemed mostly terminal flowers. Sepals andpetals generally imbricated in two to several series. Stamens as many as thepetals and opposite them, hypogynous. Flowers perfect and pistil one in all ourspecies. Anthers extrorse, opening by valves (except in Podophyllum). Styleshort; ovules 2-x, anatropous. Fruit a berry or capsule. About 10 genera and 130 species, widely distributed in the north temperate zone, the .des and temperate South America, a few in tropical regions. Shrubs ; fruit baccate. Leaves unifoliolate. on short branches, in the axils of spines. i. Berberis, Leaves pinnate ; no spines. :. Odostemon. Herbs. .thers opening by Genus i. BARBERRY FAMILY. 127 Pericarp early bursting, leaviiiy two larye naked stalked seeds, resembling berries. 3. Caulophyllum,Fruit baccate ; stamens 6. 4- Dipliylleia. Fruit capsular, half circumscissilc. 5- Jcffcrsoma. Anthers longitudinally dehiscent; iruit baccate; stamens 6-18. 6. Podophyllum. I. BERBERIS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 330. 1753. Shrubs with yellow wood, often unifoliolatc leaves, those of the ijrimary shoots reducedto spines, and yellow racemose flowers. Sepals 6-9, petaloid, bracted. Petals 6, imbricatedin 2 series, each with 2 basal glands. Stamens 6, irritable, closing around the stigma whenshocked; anthers dehiscent by valves opening from the apex. Pistil i; stigtna peltate. Berryl-few-seeded, mostly red. [Said to be from the Arabic name of the f
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