Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . in height. Leavesthin, varying from narrowly obovate to oval, i to 2h ins. long, tapering at thebase to a short stalk, the margins crowded with fine bristles. Flowers paleyellow, .\ in. across, in racemes i^ to 2 ins. long. Fruit globose, yellowishred, shining as if glazed. Native of Japan ; perhaps a Japanese prototype of our common barberry,differing in its dwarfer habit and more distinctly ciliate leaves. We have,however, in cultivation a barberry from Japan still more closely allied toB. vulgaris ; this is B. Regeliana, Koehne (B. vulgaris var
Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . in height. Leavesthin, varying from narrowly obovate to oval, i to 2h ins. long, tapering at thebase to a short stalk, the margins crowded with fine bristles. Flowers paleyellow, .\ in. across, in racemes i^ to 2 ins. long. Fruit globose, yellowishred, shining as if glazed. Native of Japan ; perhaps a Japanese prototype of our common barberry,differing in its dwarfer habit and more distinctly ciliate leaves. We have,however, in cultivation a barberry from Japan still more closely allied toB. vulgaris ; this is B. Regeliana, Koehne (B. vulgaris var. japonica, Regel).It is much confused with B. Sieboldii in gardens, and is grown under that is, however, a taller shrub with more angled branches, and the fruit isdistinct in being of a bright rosy carmine, covered with bluish bloom, and ofoblong or oval shape. B. SINENSIS, Desfontaines. A very elegant, deciduous shrub, up to 5 or 6 ft. high, with slender, pendulousbranches; young shoots smooth, somewhat angled, glossy; spines Berbkris binexsis. sometimes three-parted at the base of the shoot, but mostly simple. Leavesgreen on both surfaces, oblanceolate or narrowly obovate, \ to 2 ins. long,\ to ,^j in. wide ; on the flowering shoots they are smaller and without teeth,but on the sterile shoots are more or less toothed ; sometimes rounded,sometimes spine-tipped. Racemes 2 to 3 ins. long, one of them pendent fromeach leaf-cluster. Flowers pale yellow, \ in. diameter, each one borne on athread-like stalk. Berries bright red, slender, nearly \ in. long. BERBERIS 249 Native of China and Corea, and if not indigenous to Japan, cultivatedthere. It is said to have been first found near Pekin during Lord Macartneysmission to China, and to have l)ccn introduced in 1800. It is one of the mostattractive and graceful of deciduous barberries, flowering with remarkableprofusion towards the end of May. The Berberis figured in the BotanicalMagazine^ t. 6573, under this name, is
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