foliage. EL argentea is occasionally grown and sold in 
nurseries as Shepherdia argentea, but the true S. argentea, 
Nutt., known popularly in the United States as the Buffalo 
Berry, though similarly silvery lepidote, is at once dis- 
tinguished from our plant by its opposite Jeaves. The 
lant from which our figure has been prepared has long 
cs. in cultivation at Kew, where it forms a desirable shrub 
and is quite hardy. It is readily propagated by means of 
suckers which are freely produced. 
DescripTion.—Shrud ; reaching a height of 14 ft., freely. 
branched ; bark brown, lepidote. Leaves alternate, petioled, 
lanceolate or elliptic-lancevlate, acute or obtnse, base cuneate 
or rounded, lepidote and with a faint metallic sheen above, 
silvery lepidote beneath, #-25 in. long, 4-14 in. wide; 
petiole 2-3 lin, long. Flowers axillary, fascicled, 2-sexual 
or male only; pedicels 1-2 lin. long. Calyx silvery 
lepidote outside, glabrous within; tube 5. lin. long, 
narrowed below the middle, the lower widened portion 
elliptic, 13-2 lin. long; limb 4-lobed, yellow, the lobes 
Ovate, acute, about 2 lin. long, 14 lin. wide. Stamens 4, 
inserted in the calyx throat, filaments very short, glabrous. 
Ovary glabrous ; style pubescent at the base, elongated 
and reaching the calyx throat in the 2-sexual flowers ; 
Ovary in male flowers rudimentary with a minute style. 
Berry 8 lin. long, 5 lin, across, ellipsoid, silvery lepidote. 
: Fig. 1, portion of a leaf, showing the scales on both surfaces; 2, scales ; 
3, a hermaphrodite flower in longitudinal section ; 4, apex of style, with stigma ; 
2%, male flower, in longitudinal section ; 6, a pyrene :—al/ enlarged, 
