248 EXLAEAGNACEAE. 
SHEPHERDIA. Buffalo Berry. 
(Family Elaeagnaceae). 
Shrubs or small trees, often 
twig-spiny, with glistening fringed 
silvery or red-brown peltate scales: 
deciduous. Twigs nearly terete, 
rather slender: pith small, round, 
continuous. Buds rather small, 
solitary or early multiple through 
branching, stalked, oblong, with 2 
valvate scales or a second pair 
visible when these are parted. 
Leaf-scars opposite, half-round, 
minute, slightly raised: bundle- 
trace 1:  stipule-scars lacking. 
(Lepargyraea). 
Winter-character reference to 
Shepherdia argentea: — Schnei- 
der; f. 1323 
Shepherdia is confused with 
Elaeagnus frequently, and _ her- 
barium collections do not escape 
this confusion entirely. Unlike 
either Hlaeagnus or Hippophie, it has opposite leaves. Meyer, 
in Linnaea, volume 7, p. 443, speaks of its buds being super- 
posed,—a condition resulting from branching, probably, if the 
record does not rest on error. 
Scurf silvery. (1). S. argentea. 
Scurf red-brown. (2). S. canadensis. 
Winter-character references to Hlaeagnus:—H. angustifo- 
lia. Bosemann, 49; Schneider, f. 132. H. argentea. Bosemann, 
49. E. multiflora (E. longipes). Shirasawa, 235, pl. 2. EH. wm- 
bellata. Shirasawa, 234, pl. 2. 
