. Flowers of the field. Botany. BARBERRY FAMILY I. Berberis.—Spinous shrubs with yellow wood and astringent bark : jv/j/.f 6, deciduous ; petals 6, each with 2 nectaries at the base •. stamens 6 berrylike, 1 — 3-seeded. ^j. Epimedr'm.—Sepals 4, deciduous \pitais 8, in two whorls, inner slipper-shaped ; stiimeus \,ftuit a many-seeded follicle. I. Berberis (BarberryV—Leaies spinously-dentate. or reduced to 3—7-fid spines ;/7't>H'tv-j in racemes, yello^', with ; or 3 minute hracteoles. (Name said to be of Arabic orisin.) I. B. lu'.^dris (^^xhtxxs). The only Britibh species. A pretty sh
. Flowers of the field. Botany. BARBERRY FAMILY I. Berberis.—Spinous shrubs with yellow wood and astringent bark : jv/j/.f 6, deciduous ; petals 6, each with 2 nectaries at the base •. stamens 6 berrylike, 1 — 3-seeded. ^j. Epimedr'm.—Sepals 4, deciduous \pitais 8, in two whorls, inner slipper-shaped ; stiimeus \,ftuit a many-seeded follicle. I. Berberis (BarberryV—Leaies spinously-dentate. or reduced to 3—7-fid spines ;/7't>H'tv-j in racemes, yello^', with ; or 3 minute hracteoles. (Name said to be of Arabic orisin.) I. B. lu'.^dris (^^xhtxxs). The only Britibh species. A pretty shrub, not uncommcn in woods and hedge's, with yellow weed and 3-tbrked spines. Its yellow7/i?r<:'cv-i- hang in drooping clusters ; the are elastic and irri- table, so that when touched ever so lightly by the leg of an insect they spring upward and throw their pollen outward. The oblong berry- like fruits are orange-red when ripe and gratelully acid, and may be made ,^ into an agreeable preserve. The shrub is often rooted out by farmers, gyt'' as a fungus which lives part of its 'AM life on Barberry leaves is the cause of " rust "' in wheat. Several species furnish a vellow dye. and others are cultivated in gardens, as are also several members of the allied genus Mahonia.— Fl. Ma)-, June. Perennial. *::. EpI-MEDIUM (Barrenwort').— Liavis bi-ternate ; /7c'uv; red, with vellow. honev-bearing, inner petals. '"'" ""' '^' ' ' (Name of Greek origin, indicating its resemblance to a Median plant.) I.* E. a!pl?]uin (Alpine Bajrenwort'.—A graceful plant, less than a foot high, occurring here and there in subalpine woods in Scotland and the north of England : but <not indigenous. Its delicate green kiirlcts are ovate-cordate, acuminate and serrate.— 71. Mav. Ord. III.—Xyj[ph.€ace.€.—A^'ater-lily Fa:>:ily Perennial aquaric herbaceous plants, with generally orbicular floating liazcs which are involute
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