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ELiEAGNUS* angustifdlia. 



Narrow-kaved Ekeagnus. 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Eljeagnex. 



ELMAGNUS L. — Flares hermaphroditi aut polygami. Calyx basi 

 tubulosus; limbo campanulato^ 4-5-fido, regulari. Stamina 4-5, laciniis 

 calycis alternantia. Discus prominens, bipartitus aut annularis. Nux 

 calycis tubo incrassato carnoso intiis osseo apice umbilicato et akenio 



obovoideo constans. Arbores, foliis alt emis, ^orihns in axillis foliorum 



pedicellatis. Acli. Richard. Monogr. p. 26. 



E. angustifolia; foliis lanceolatis utrinque argenteo-lepidotis. 



E. angustifolia. Linn, sp.pl. ed. Willd. 1. 688. Pallas Jl. ross. l.f. 10 



t. 4. aliorumque. 

 E. inermis. MilL diet. n. 2. 



w 



r 



E. argenteus. Manch. mith. p. 638. 



E. onentalis. Delile, according to A. Rich, but not of lAnn. 



E. hortensis <*. Bieh. taur. cauc. 1. 113. 



yd, ramis spinosis, foliis ellipticis. 



E. spinosa. Linn. sp. Willd. 1. 689. 



E. hortensis ?. Bieb. taur, cauc. 1. 113, 



A small, hardy, cinereous tree, growing from 15 to 

 20 feet high, with the habit of some kind of Willow. Its 

 flowers, which are produced in great quantities in the 



The ixctidyvcs of Theophrast 



Willow 



certainly not Salix babylonica, as Sprengel states. It was named from its 

 resemblance to the Ixxm, or olive, from which it differed in not bearing fruit. 

 The plants to which the name is now applied are also something like the 

 olive. The French call the Eleeagnus chalef; a slight alteration, according 



kalafy 



khaUfy 



Eleeag 



the wild olive ;— a reading that has been adopted by some Botanists 

 which is most likely the true one. 



