. Notes on the life history of British flowering plants. Botany; Plant ecology. 67 BEEBEEIDACE^ Berber is vulgaris (Berberry) is the only British species of this family, and even this is a doubtful native. It is a glabrous pale-green shrub, with yellow, acid wood, 6 or 8 feet high, with long branches arching over at the ends. The leaves are alter- nate or in clusters, obovate, and sharply toothed. The primary leaves are changed into seven, five, or three thorns, and the axillary bud Fig. 38.—shoot of Berberry {BerleHs vulgaris), showing three spines, sp, representing the leaf. Na
. Notes on the life history of British flowering plants. Botany; Plant ecology. 67 BEEBEEIDACE^ Berber is vulgaris (Berberry) is the only British species of this family, and even this is a doubtful native. It is a glabrous pale-green shrub, with yellow, acid wood, 6 or 8 feet high, with long branches arching over at the ends. The leaves are alter- nate or in clusters, obovate, and sharply toothed. The primary leaves are changed into seven, five, or three thorns, and the axillary bud Fig. 38.—shoot of Berberry {BerleHs vulgaris), showing three spines, sp, representing the leaf. Nat. size. .1, stem ; Z, L, leaves on a lateral shoot arising in the axil of the spini- form leaf, and themselves reduced to short subulate spines ; L', L', more perfect leaves on the same lateral develops leaves, which is the reason for their being in clus- ters. The flowers are yellow, in graceful drooping racemes, with a peculiar smell. The parts are in alternating whorls of three, including 6 sepals, 6 petals, each with two orange nectaries at the base, and 6 stamens. The system of fertilisation was well de- scribed by Sprengel. The stamens lie close to the petals and almost at right angles to the pistil, as shown in Fig. 39. The honey-glands (n n) are twelve in number, situated in pairs at the base of the petals, so that the honey occupies the angle Pig, 39.—-BerJem vulgaris. Flower between the baseS of the S^rMucreni:;g""^^' stamens and of the pistil. The papillary edge of the summit of the pistil (Fig. 40, e) is the stigma. In open. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913. London, New York, Macmillan and Co. , Ltd.
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