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ample, pyramidal, at length ratlier loose. — The specimens are 2° liigli, glab- 
rous tliroiighout ; leaves lanceolate, 2-3' long and 6-9'' wide ; sepals yellow- 
ish-wliite, open and not at all appressed to the aclienium ; scantily fruiting ; 
achenium 3" long. East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada ; on dry slopes ; 
7-8,000 feet altitude ; August. Var. lajiathi folium was found at Kotzebue 
Sound by H. & A. Specimens collected by Dall on tlie Youkon, and by Dr. 
Torrey (425) near Donner Pass, California, all with broadly ovate leaves, 
connect the two varieties. (1,071.) 
ELEAGNACE^. 
SHEniERDiA Canadensis, Nutt. From Vermont to Newfoundland and 
Wisconsin, northward to the Arctic Circle and west to the Rocky Mountains 
and Washington Territory ; south in the mountains to Wyoming, Colorado 
and New Mexico. East Humboldt and Clover Mountains, Nevada, and in 
the Wahsatch and Uintas ; 6-9,000 feet altitude ; July-September. (1,072.) 
SiiEPHERDiA AKGENTEA, Nutt. DC. Pvodr. 14. 608. Lcaves elliptic or 
oblong-ovate, obtuse, attenuate at base, silvery on both sides, as well as the 
branches and flowers, shghtly dotted ferruginous scales ; filaments pu- 
bescent. — A shrub 8-15° high, somewhat spiny ; the leaves very variable in 
size, i-2' long and 2-10" wide ; berries 2" in diameter, scarlet, pellucid and 
edible. From the Saskatchewan southward ; Utah, (Stansbury ;) Nevada, 
(Anderson and Torrey ;) New Mexico, (Fendler.) Frequent on stream-banks 
in Western Nevada. Fruit ripening in July. (1,073 ) 
Eleagnus^ argentea, Pursh. DC. Prodr. 14. 609. A stoloniferous un- 
armed shrub, 6-12° high, the younger branches covered with ferruginous 
scales; leaves li-4' long and 9"-2J' wide, broadly or narrowly elliptic, rather 
acute at each end, or lanceolate and undulate, silvery-scurfy and more or less 
ferruginous ; flowers numerous, deflexcd, silvery without, pale yellow^ within, 
fragrant, 3-5" long, the tube broadly oval, the hmb funnelform ; fruit globose- 
ovoid, dry and mealy, edible, 4-5" in length. Canada and west to the Sas- 
katchewan and Rocky Mountains, to latitude 68° ; Northern Minnesota and 
' ELEAGXUS, L. F1..w.ts poiffcr. Calyx-tube incliuling the free ovary, the limb cylindric-cam- 
pauulute or tubular belosv, part. .! ab-nv into 4 valvate decitluous lobes, colored within. Disk elandu- 
lose. Stamens 4, adiiatc to the calyx au.l altcniatc ^vith its lobes, the free portion of the filaments Tery 
short ; anthers oblong. Style ^i.i.ple, straight ; stigma l-sided. Fruit drnpe-Iike, covered with the thick- 
ened dry or fleshy closed calyx-tube; the stone oblong, S-striate.-Trees or shrubs, with alternate entire 
petioled leaves and axiUary pedicelled flowers. 
