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Fig. 127.— Buffalo Berry. Foliage and fruit, 

 a. — ^Fruit, natural size. 



the best of our native kinds. The Utah hybrid cherry some- 

 what resembles this but has a, more erect habit. A quite limit- 

 ed experience seems to show it is much inferior to our best na- 

 tive kinds. Bullberry, or Buffalo Berry. 



Bullberry, or Buffalo-berry (Shepherdia argentea). — This 

 plant is found abundantly along the river banks and coulees of 

 the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, though but sparing- 

 ly, if at all, in Minnesota or the more eastern and central states, 

 yet it grows freely and fruits abundantly in all the northern 

 states. 



Description. — A small tree or shrub with light colored foli- 

 age, young growth and opposite leaves. The flowers and fruit 

 are clustered near the base of the small branchlets on spurs on 

 very short stems. The plants are dioecious, i. e., one has pistil- 

 late and the other staminate flowers, so that it is necessary to 

 have both kinds near together in order to get fruit. The flow- 

 ers appear very early in the spring before the leaves and are 

 small and inconspicuous. The fruit is produced in great abun- 

 dance — often so thickly as to conceal the branches on which 

 It grows — and when ripe gives a scarlet appearance to the 



