SHEPHERDIA— ILEX 213 



Alaska, south to Nova Scotia, Me., western N. Y., Mich., Wis. and 

 Minn. Blossoms April-June, fruit ripe July-August. 



Shepherdia argentea N u 1 1 a 1 1 1818 Buffalo-berry 

 Lepargyraea argentea Greene 1890 



Shrubs or small trees 1-6 m. high, more or less thorny, with gray bark 

 and brown or silvery-scurfy twigs; leaves opposite, oblong-lanceolate or 

 cuneate-oblong, rounded at the base, obtuse at the apex, densely silvery- 

 scurfy on both sides, 2.5 cm. long, 6-15 mm. wide, petioles 5-10 mm. long; 

 flowers in clusters at the nodes of the twigs, yellowish; fruit ovoid, red, 

 acid and edible, 4-6 mm. long : argentea, silvery. 



Occurs in the western and probably in the extreme northern part of 

 the state. Distributed from Manitoba and Minn, to Kansas and west- 

 ward. Planted to a considerable extent as an ornamental shrub or small 

 tree. Blossoms in May and June, fruit ripe July to August. 



Ilicaceae Holly Family 



Trees or shrubs with watery sap; leaves simple, alternate, petioled, 

 often leathery in texture ; flowers in axillary clusters or borne singly, small, 

 regular, white or greenish, mostly polygamo-dioecious ; calyx 3-6 parted, 

 generally persistent, petals 4-6 or sometimes more, separate or slightly 

 united at the base, deciduous, stamens hypogynous, as many as the petals 

 or more, anthers cordate, disk lacking, ovary superior, 3-several celled, 

 style short or none, ovules 1-2 in each cavity of the ovary; fruit a small 

 b'jrry-like drupe enclosing several nutlets. 



Ilex Linne 1753 

 (Classial Latin name of the holly oak) 



Shrubs or trees; leaves alternate, entire or dentate or spiny-toothed, 

 sometimes leathery, stipules minute; flowers axillary, cymose or solitary, 

 perfect or polygamous, calyx small, 4-6 toothed, petals 4-6, separate or 

 united only at the base, oval or obovate, spreading, stamens as many as 

 the petals and attached to their base; fruit a berry-like drupe containing 

 4-6 nutlets. 



