The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova ScotiaConsidered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerceTo which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees .. . ating with a torus ofeight glands. Eemale flower with a small 4-cleft, superior, campa-nulate calyx, and eight glands. Style one; stigma oblique, snbcapi-tate. Berry juicy, 1-seeded, globose, invested with the fleshy calyx. Small trees, spinescent or unarmed, with the general aspect ofJElmagnus. Leaves entir
The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova ScotiaConsidered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerceTo which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees .. . ating with a torus ofeight glands. Eemale flower with a small 4-cleft, superior, campa-nulate calyx, and eight glands. Style one; stigma oblique, snbcapi-tate. Berry juicy, 1-seeded, globose, invested with the fleshy calyx. Small trees, spinescent or unarmed, with the general aspect ofJElmagnus. Leaves entire, opposite, clothed with silvery and ferru-ginous scales. Flowers small, in axillary clusters, or in sj) pulpy, diaphanous, scarlet, subacid. RABBIT BERRY, OR WESTERN SHEPHERDIA. Shepherdia argentea. Foliis oblongo-ovatis, obtusis, glabris, utrinqueargenteo-lepidotis, floribus glomeratis.—Nutt., Gen. Amer., vol. 240. Loudons Encyc. Plants, p. 836, Arboretum et Frutic,p. 1321, fig. 1208. Hooker, Flor. Bor. Am., vol. ii. p. 138,tab. 178, (well illustrated.) Hippophae argentea.—^Pursh, Flor. Bor. Am., p. 115. * Named in honor of the late Mr. Wm. Shepherd, then curator of the Liver-pool Botanic Garden. A most scientific gardener and skiknl Slifjilu-rtlia aroejilea. RABBITBERRY. 135 This very useful, hardy, and ornamental tree is wholly anative of the northern and western regions of North Richardson observed it on the banks of the Saskatchawan,between Carlton and Edmonton House Forts, in the latitudeof 54°, and Major Longs party found it growing on the bordersof Rainy Lake, about latitude 49°. On the banks of the Mis-souri, the limit of its southern range is the borders of the Platte,but it appeared to be most abundant and fertile around FortMandan, or the Great Northern Bend of the Missouri, in aboutthe latitude of 48°; here it becomes a small tree twelve toeighteen feet in height, and when adorned with its brilliantsca
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