berberry

De Bary proved that the old idea of the farmer, that the rust is very apt to appear on wheat growing in the neighborhood of berberry bushes, was no fable; but on the contrary, that the yellow _Æcidium_ on the berberry is a phase in the life history of the fungus causing the wheat rust.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 Various

_Musa_, _Artocarpus_, &c. Some of the cultivated varieties of the grape and of the berberry produce no seeds.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

The bark and roots of the berberry are used in the East to dye yellow; the color is best when boiled in ley.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

But this afternoon I climbed by a long road where were many berberry bushes vermilion with their berries, up to the pass over the hills, and there all at once by surprise, without the least expecting it, at a turn of the road I had a revelation of the whole sea.

A Tramp's Sketches Stephen Graham 1929

On the lower slopes the undergrowth is composed largely of begonias and berberry.

Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

Cloquet pointed out, in the flowers of the common berberry (_Berberis vulgaris_) and in the chestnut.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

Tulips and hyacinths, and polyanthuses and primroses, were in a flush of spring glory now; violets breathed everywhere; the snowy-flowered gooseberry and the red-flowered currant, and berberry with its luxuriant yellow bloom, and the almond, and a magnificent magnolia blossoming out in the arms of its evergreen sister, with many another flower less known to Eleanor, made the garden-terraces a little wilderness of loveliness and sweetness.

The Old Helmet 1864

Pine forests succeed for 2000 feet higher, when they give place to a skirting of rhododendron and berberry.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

The elevation being 12,080 feet, I was above the limit of trees, and the ground was covered with many kinds of small-flowered honeysuckles, berberry, and white rose.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

Corylopsis, _ and berberry -- all Japan and Chinese, and most of them

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864