An illustrated flora of the 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 . ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 BARBERRY FAMILY. B. canadensi. Pericarp early bursting, leaving two large naked stalked seeds, resembling berries. 3. Caulophyllum. Fruit baccate ; stamens 6. 4. Diphyllew. Fruit capsular, halt circumscissile. 5. Jeffersonia. Anthers longitudinally dehiscent; fruit baccate; stamens 6-18. 6. Podophyllum. I. BERBERI
An illustrated flora of the 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 . ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 BARBERRY FAMILY. B. canadensi. Pericarp early bursting, leaving two large naked stalked seeds, resembling berries. 3. Caulophyllum. Fruit baccate ; stamens 6. 4. Diphyllew. Fruit capsular, halt circumscissile. 5. Jeffersonia. Anthers longitudinally dehiscent; fruit baccate; stamens 6-18. 6. Podophyllum. I. BERBERIS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 330. 1753. Shrubs with yellow wood, often unifoliolate leaves, those of the primary shoots reduced to spines, and yellow racemose flowers. Sepals 6-9, petaloid, bracted. Petals 6, imbricated in 2 series, each with 2 basal glands. Stamens 6, irritable, closing around the stigma when shocked; anthers dehiscent by valves opening from the apex. Pistil i; stigma peltate. Berry i-few-seeded, mostly red. [Said to be from the Arabic name of the fruit.] A genus of about 80 species, natives of North America, Europe, northern Asia and South Amer- ica. Besides the following, another is found in western North America. Type species: Berberis Twigs ash-colored ; racemes many-flowered ; petals entire. i. B. vulgaris. Twigs dark brown ; racemes few-flowered; petals notched. I. Berberis vulgaris L. European Barberry. Fig. 1955. Berberis vulgaris L. Sp, PI. 330. 1753. A glabrous shrub, 6°-8° high, the branches arched and drooping at the ends, the twigs gray. Leaves alternate or fas- cicled, obovate or spatulate, unifoliolate, obtuse, thick, 1-2' long, bristly serrate, many of those on the young shoots re- duced to 3-pronged spines, the fascicles of the succeeding year appearing in their axils; racemes terminating lateral branches, many-flowered, 1-2' long (3-4' in fruit) ; flowers yellow, z'-a' broad with a disa- greeable smell; petals entire; berries ob- long or ellipsoid
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