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SHAMKOCK. Half the wurkl is sure tliat Shainmek 

 is Xhv woo.l sui-re!. O.r.ills Aa^tosc/I'i. The uther li;ilf 

 is tMiuulty oertiiin iluit the true JShamvck is white 

 clover, Trifolitdii r,/i,iis. In the time ut' J^ipeiiscr's 

 Fairy Queen, Shamrock was said to be y,-oud to eat, 

 This applies to the former pU\nt, hut not to the latter. 

 Moreover, accord in ^t:^ to Sowerhy, the "\V(_>(_Mhsorrel is in 

 perfection on Saint Patrick's Day, while white clover 

 is not. The ^YOod-sorrel is sent in ;;reat quantities from 

 Ireland to London f()r Saint Patrick's day. On the 

 other hand, it is said tliat idover is the plant most com- 

 monly used in Ireland. Halt a dozen other plants have 

 their followers, and these are all plants with three leaf- 

 lets. Ne\'ertheless there are those who deny that Saint 

 Patrick used the Shamrock as a symbol of the trinity. 

 These declare that the water cress is rln- true Sham- 

 rock. The question will always remain an open one. 

 See Dyer's "Folk-Lore of Plants." "\y_ y[ 



SHAMROCK, INDIAN. 



,sh books for the Tri/ltiii. 



SHAMROCK PEA. P<n 



A name foun^l in some En^ 



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SHAW, HENRY, founder of the Missouri Botanical 

 GardfU, popularlv known as "Shaw's Oardens." was 

 born at Shettield.' England, July 24, 1800, and died at 

 St. Louis, Mo.. August 2.3, 18^9. He came to the United 

 States in 1819 and engaged in the hardware business 

 until 1840 in St. Lonis, where he continut-d to reside 

 until his death. After retirement from active business 

 he traveled for a number of years, and in 1849 laid (.>ut 

 a modest garden about his country house in the suburbs 

 of St. Louis, which, nine years later, he extended so as 

 to include some forty-five acres, about half of this area 

 constituting an arb... return. 



By special act of the (ieneral Assembly of the state 

 of Missouri, approved in I\Iareh, 18-39. ]Mr. Shaw was 

 empowered to provide for the conveyance ut his 

 property, either during his life or after bis demise, to 

 trnstees, fur the perpetual maintenance of his garden 

 as a scientific establishment. In 1S8.J he endoweil a 

 department in Washirigton University, known as t he 

 Henry Shaw Scho<.)I of Botam", and on his death left 

 nearly all of his property, vaUied at some $.3,000,ni)(l. to 

 a board of trustees for the maintenance, im[irovement 

 and enlargement of the .31iss(juri Bi.ttanical (.larden. 



Mr. Shaw, though not a botanist, was a lover of 

 plants for themselves and a firm believer in their in- 

 fluence in molding desirable traits in human character. 

 His garden was always open to visitors, among wlnun 

 he particularly welroniefl the self-respecting iioor. 

 Thirty years before In's df-ath he gave to the city of St. 

 Louis a park site adja^.-eiit to his irarden. which, like 

 the latter, was improved \inder liis personal super- 

 vision. 



Special provisions in Mr. Shaw's will, aside from the 

 general arrangements for the development of the garden 

 — in details of which he allows his trustees a very free 

 hand — are for an annual sermon "on the wisdom and 

 goodness of God as shown in the growth of flowers, 

 fruits, and other products of the vegetable kingdom;" 

 premiums for au annual flower show; and two annual 

 banquets, respectively for the trustees and gardeners 

 of the institution. These banquets are the occasion 

 for annual gatherings of men distinguished in botany 

 and horticulture. -^r^^^ Treleasf:. 



SHEEP BERRY. I'lharHum Lniticjo. 



SHEEP'S BIT. J^'sirnw j'rreimis. 



SHELLBARK. See H'V'-'ria an<l Jflrl-or>f. 



SHELL-FLOWER. See Ci/rlohnfJ, ra; also AJpinia 

 ■>iuiatis: also Mol urrcJln. lirris. 



SHELL-LILY is J //- 



'luf'rn.^i. 



SHEPHERDIA(John Shepherd, an English botanist). 

 Ehf>agnac);rfi. Three Amerlean shrubs with silvery or 

 brown-scurfy foliage, two of whi<'h are in the trade. 

 being grown for their striking api'earance and one of 

 them prized for its edible fruit. The leaves are ojjpo- 



site, peti<iled, enlire. Flowers dio?cions or polyganjons 

 and apetalous. small and inconspicuous, borne in small 

 sessile or nearly sessile clusters; i.-ahx i-yiarled; sta- 

 mens 8, alternating witli 8 lobes of a disk; idstil 1, 

 nearly inclose<l by the disk at the orihce of ihe calyx- 

 tube, liecominga nut or akene and invested by the He>hy 

 calyx, forming a dru]ie-like frnit. In .v. (injrii/ra, the 

 Bnffalo Berry, tlie fruil is edilile when made into jellies 

 and conserves, {in<I is niiirh |irize<l in the np]ier Plaiiis 

 region for household uses. 



The Shepherdias are liardy plants, w ithstiinilini: ex- 

 tremes of cold and drought. Tln-y are of easy culture, 

 and grow readily from stratihed seeds. For ornauient:xl 

 lilauting, they are prized for bold positions in fmnt of 

 shrubbery masses, where their gray or white colors 

 alTord excellent eontrasts. N. < 'n inKh'iisis is particu- 

 larly well adajited for ydanting on dry, rocky, sterile 

 lianks, where most laisbes find great diificnlty in secur- 

 ing a fouihold. >'. u r<jciih II succeeds lietter in the ujiper 

 ^lississipjn valley than in the eastern states. Stannmde 

 and pistillate plaids of it have ditferent forms of hnds. 



The genus Shej'herdia was founded by Nuttall in 1818. 

 It is said that Rahnesipie's Lepargyra^a, 1817, is equiv- 

 alent, and the syiecies have been placed under the 

 latter name by recent wi'iters. 



A. Lrs. i/rt'eii above. 

 Canadensis, Nutt. {Li'j"!rf/i/nrir ("3/ i/af?rM.s;.s-, Greene). 

 Spreading twiggy bush 'A to (3 or even 8 ft. tali, the 

 young liranches brown-scurfy: Ivs. ovate, oval or 

 elliptic, rather thick, green abnve but rusty l)eueath : 

 lis. yellowish, in short clusters at the nudes: fr. small 

 ( bi. in. ur less long), oval, red or yellow, insipid. Along 

 streams and on lake banks. Newfoundland to British 

 Columbia ami in tlie northern tier of states, and sontli- 

 ward in the mountains to Utah. — Little known in cult., 

 but has been offered by dealers in native plants. 



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2321. Shortia o-alacitolia (X '::K 



ee ]ia;;t' I(IGJ-) 



AA. Lr.-:. t:ilf<'ril (ihure. 



arg^ntea, Niitt. (i. un-initni. Greene). Bcff.ai,. 

 liEKKY. Fig. 2.^2, Vol. I. Uiiright shrub, or sonietinic 

 almost tree-form, reaching 18 ft! tall, thorny, the youn 

 ijrowtli silverv-toiiientoKr: Ivs. ohlong-, euneate-oMong (. 

 nlilong-huieeolatr. silverv on lioth side.s: tls. yellowisli 

 in dense small fasci.-h.s at the nodes: fr. gl.ihular o 

 ovoid, ahout >.j in. long, red or yellow, arid, edihh: 

 Kans. to Minn., west and north. fSee Buffalo l><-nii. 



S. rotvndifbUa. Parry, from Utah, is a silvciT tomentose an 

 sc\u-fy evergreen hush: Ivs. ro\uid-ov;d or ovate, mosl \y ^ou]. 

 what cordate, short-petioled: fls. st:ilked in the a.xils nf tli 

 Ivs., the st.aminate mostly in n's and the pistdhite snliiary: fi 

 globular, scui-fj', ripening in .July. L. H. B. 



SHEPHERD'S CLUB or MULLEIN is ]', 



7'liajjsiis. 



SHIHLEAF. Pjirol". 



SHOEBLACK PLANT. Eihixruf: Kasa-Si in 



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