French Berries,

French Berries, AVIGNON BERRIES, PERSIAN BERRIES, or YELLOW BERRIES (Fr. Graines d'Avignon), small berries, the fruit of certain species of Buckthorn (q.v.), but principally of the Yellow-berried Buckthorn (Rhamnus infectorius), which were formerly largely imported from the Levant and southern France as a yellow dye; being fugitive, however, this dyestuff has very much given place to that of mineral dyes.