Trees : a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory.

  • Ward, H. Marshall (Harry Marshall), 1854-1906.
Date:
1904-09
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Trees : a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto.

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    (a) Berry oblong, orange-scarlet or yellow. * Berry narrow oblong, with 1—2 seeds. Berberis vulgaris. Barberry (Fig. 140). The narrow oblong, slightly compressed and curved berry is about 10—12 mm. long, with an acid taste, and consists of one carpel only. The perianth is deciduous. ** Berry ovoid-oblong, with cup-like calyx below; seeds numerous. H.GUNTHEfOtA. Fig. 140. Barberry, Berberis vulgaris. 1, flowering shoot; 2, flower in vertical section, enlarged; 3, a petal; 4 and 5, a stamen ; 6, fruit (Wo). Lycium barbarum [so-called, but in reality L. chinense, Mill.], misnamed the Tea-tree (Fig. 141). (/?) Berry globose. * Berry rough with small warty excrescences, red; flesh rather dry and friable; seeds numerous. Arbutus Unedo, L. Strawberry-tree. The fruit has