198 Oleaster ( Elceagnacece) 



Genus DAPHNE, L. (Mezereum.) 

 Mezereum. Daphne. [D. mezereum, Z.] 



This species differs from the above chiefly in the fol- 

 lowing items : 



Calyx, purplish-rose, rarely white, with four spreading 

 lobes. Stamens and style, if present, not exserted. 



Leaves, lance-shape. 



Found, escaped from cultivation in Canada, New York, 

 and Massachusetts. Introduced from Europe. 



27. Family EL^AGNACE^. (Oleaster Fam.) 



Genus SHEPHERDIA, Nutt. (Shepherdia.) 



Fig. 91. Shepherdia. S. Canadensis, Nutt. 



Flowers, very small, yellowish, nearly stemless, of two 

 kinds on the same bush. Corolla, wanting. Calyx, 

 four-parted. The staminate flowers with eight sta- 

 mens, in lateral clusters ; the pistillate often solitary, 

 with one style, and with a one-seeded seed-case enclosed 

 by, but not adherent to, the calyx. 



Leaves, one to two inches long, opposite, entire, oblong 

 or egg-shape, beneath very white-downy and sprinkled 

 thickly with rusty scales. Branchlets, and flowers, 

 also marked with rusty scales. 



Fruit, size of a small pea, round or oval, yellowish-red, 

 pulpy, sweetish, but not edible, one-celled, one-seeded, 

 berry-like ; really an akene within the pulpy calyx. 



Found, from New York and Vermont westward and north- 

 ward. 



A shrub three to six feet high, curious and ornamental. 



