418 ELAEAGNACEAE 
escape from cultivation, occasionally found is the Daphne or 
Spurge Laurel, a shrub of small size. 
1, DIRCA, L. 
With the characters above mentioned. The only species is: 
D. palustris, L. (Fig. 1, pl. 101.) LEATHERWOOD. Moose Woop. 
A shrub 2 to 6 ft. high, with tough yellow bark, oval leaves and small 
yellow flowers. Stamens much longer than the yellow sepals. Fruit a 
small oval red berry. The flowers appear in April, before the leaves. 
The bark is used for withes and binders. Mostly in wet soil. 
2. DAPHNE, L. 
Small shrubs, with alternate leaves and purple or white flowers in clus- 
ters, in our species encircling the stem at the inter-nodes of leaves. The 
flower is without petals, the 4 spreading lobes of the calyx forming the 
perianth. Stamens 8, arising from the calyx, usually included within the 
tube of the calyx. Ovary 1-celled; style very short. Fruit an ovoid drupe. 
D. Mezereum, L. (Fig. 3, pl. 101.) Spurce Laurer, A fragrant 
shrub, 1 to 5 ft. high, with lance-shaped leaves and purple or white 
flowers. Escaped from gardens. April-May. 
Famity II.—ELAEAGNACEAE. OLEASTER FAMILY 
Shrub, in our region, with a silvery scurf. Leaves with lobes 
or teeth, opposite in our species, without stipules. Flowers spring- 
ing at the leaf axils or at the nodes of the twigs of the preceding 
season in small clusters. Corolla absent. The calyx divided into 
4 sepals. Stamens few. Ovary 1-celled with a singe ovule. Seeds 
erect. Our only Genus is: 
SHEPHERDIA, Nutt. (Lepargyraea, Raf.) 
With opposite leaves and small flowers. Staminate flowers with 8 
stamens. Calyx tube investing the ovary but not adhering to it. Fruit 
berry-like. 
S. canadensis, (L.) Nutt. (Fig. 2, pl. 101.) CaNapIAN BUFFALO 
3errY. A shrub, 4 to 8 ft. high, with elliptic leaves. smooth above, 
covered below with hairs and silvery scales, An ornamental shrub grow- 
ing on banks and along streams. April-June. 
Order XIV.—MYRTALES. Order of the Myrtles 
Herbs, shrubs or trees. Flowers, with rare exceptions, regular, 
the calyx rising partly or completely above the ovary and adhering 
to it or entirely free. Styles usually fused into one, ovaries with 
many ovules, carpels 2. Petals present except in the small flowered 
water plants of the family Haloragidaceae. 
