CANADIAN SHEPHERDIA. 
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met with it on the borders of the smaller inland lakes, 
as well as on the shores of Lake Erie; but this species 
scarcely becomes a tree, is without thorns, and the 
berries, though equally brilliant with the preceding, 
are rather unpleasant to the taste. On the authority 
of Menzies it is said also to exist on the North West 
coast, but I have not seen it there. 
