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alternantibus, antheris parvis, filamento quam antheras longiore, 
quam lobis perigonii breviore, in fauce inserto; fl. foemineis in 
axillis foliorum oppositis; perigonio ovoideo, tubuloso; limbo 
quadripartito, patente; fauce glandulis 8 contiguis cincto. Pistillum 
simplex, ovarium tubo perigonii inclusum, uniloculare, uniovu- 
latum; stylo crasso, elongato, sub angulo 90° apice abrupte reflexo, 
convexo latere longe stigmatoso. Fructus increscente perigonio 
prorsum succulens, acidusvel insipidus. Semen unicum, obovoideum, 
nitidum, luteum, latere subsulcatum. Hab. Americ. sept. 
Division du genre Shepherdia. 
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Ramis foliisque tomentosis; floribus solitariis vel binis vel ternis 
Sh. rotundifolia Parry. 
Ramis foliisque haud tomentosis; floribus solitariis (2). 
Ramis spinescentibus; foliis utrinque argenteis; floribus albis. 
Sh. argentea Nuttal. 
Ramis haud spinescentibus; foliis supra viridibus, subtus argenteis et ferru- 
gineis; floribus cupro-ferrugineis. Sh. canadensis Nuttal. 
Shepherdia canadensis Nuttal. 
Nuttal: Gen. of North. Am. PI. II, p. 240 (1818). Richard: Monogr. des 
Eleagnees, p. 375 (1823). A. Gray: Man. of the Botany of the Northern United 
States (1856). Schlecht, in D. C. Prodr. XIV, p. 607 (1857) et in Linnaea XXXII, 
p. 298 (1863). Hooker: Fl. bor. Am. 2, p. 138, tab. 178 (1890). Williams: Notes 
on the Flora of West-South-Dakota in Am. nat. vol. 26. Philadelphie (1892). 
Britton: 111. Flora (1897). 
Syn.: Elaeagnus canadensis L.: Sp. PL p. 1024 (1753). Hippophae canadensis 
Pursh: Fl. bor. Am. 1, p. 115 (1814). Lepargyraea canadensis Greene: Pittonia, 
2, p. 122 (1890). Inco: Buffalo berry (Hooker), Soap berry (Howard). 
Frutex, inermis, 1,50—2 m; ramis reflexis, inermibus, oppo¬ 
sitis, rubro - ferrugineis; medulla rubra. 
Folia caduca, mollia, ovalia, utrinque obtusa, saepe basi 
dilatata et subcordata, margine integra, supra viridia, multi- 
pilosa, pilis fasciculatis, dein glabrescentia, subtus tomentosa, 
argentea squamis nonnullis ferrugineis conspersa; 4—6 nervis 
primariis obliquis minime distinctis; petiolo brevi, ferrugineo, 
subcanaliculato, 4—5 mm longo; lamina, 20—45 mm longa, 
12—22 mm lata. 
Flores dioici, solitarie in axillis bractearum caducarum siti, 
3—6 in ramulis racemuliformibus. Flores masculini subsessiles, 
perigonio profunde 4-partito, conico, planiusculo; intus luteo- 
viridi glabro, extus rubescente; lobis patentibus ellipticis elon- 
gatis, extus rubescentibus, intus glabris luteo-viridibus, 2 mm 
longis; staminibus, 8 cum totidem glandulis alternantibus, antheris 
minimis, filamento quam antherae ter longiore, 1 mm longo. 
Flores foeminei in ramulis axillaribus, oppositi, subsessiles; peri¬ 
gonio cylindrico, crasso; basi attenuato, extus rubescente intus 
viridi, apice multis pilis fasciculatis praedito, fauce glandulis 
8 contiguis cincto; lobis patentibus, triangularibus, acutis, intus 
