B90 



RUSSET BUFFALOBERRY 



Lepargyre'a canaden'sis, syn. Shepher'dia canaden'sis 



Flowers small, of 2 kinds, male and 

 female, borne on separate plants, soli- 

 tary or in clusters on the branchlets, 

 nearly stalkless, brown on outside, 

 greenish yellow within 



Male flowers with united outer flower 

 parts (calyx) 4-lobed and 8 stamens 

 alternating with 8 knoblike processes 

 of the disk; petals lacking 



Female flowers with outer united um- 

 shaped flower parts (calyx) enclosing 

 the seed-producing organ (ovary), 4- 

 lobed, about % to Yt in. long, the open- 

 ing closed by the teeth of the disk; 

 petals lacking 



Leaves opposite, entire, short-stalked, 

 oval to egg-shaped, from % to 2% in. 

 long, green above, silvery-hairy and 

 brown-scurfy-spotted beneath 



Fruit berrylike, roundish, yellowish 

 red, K to y t in. long, insipid, somewhat 

 nauseous 



Stems branched, woody, 3 to 9 ft. 

 high; branches brown, scurfy 



Area on unde_r surface of leaf enlarged 

 to show details of scales 



