338 EL^AGNE^. 



Division II. SYMPETAL^. 



Corolla of petals which are more or less united and forming 



a tubular part ; or corolla sometimes wanting and 



replaced by a colored and corolla-like 



synsepalous calyx. 



Oeder lvi. ELyEAGNE/E. 



A. Richard, Mem. de la Soc. d'Hist. Nat. de Paris, i. 375 (1823). 



A small family, as nearly allied to Salsolacese as to any other, and here 

 represented by a single species of 



1. LEPARGrYR^A, Rafinesque. Shrubs with branchlets more or less 

 spinescent, opposite leaves which are entire and with a scurfy indument. 

 Flowers dioecious, small, clustered in the axils of the branchlets. Calyx 

 of sterile flower deeply i-parted. Stamens 8, with as many alternating 

 glands, subsessile, shorter than the limb of the calyx. Calyx of fertile 

 flower with ovoid tube and spreading 4-lobed limb, the throat beset with 

 8 contiguous glands. Pistil simple; ovary enclosed within the calyx- 

 tube and appearing inferior, 1-ovuled; style elongated, acute, stigmatose 

 up and down one side. Fruit appearing drupaceous by the enclosure of 

 the stone-like seed within the fleshy persistent calyx-tube. 



1. L. argentea, Greene, Pittonia, ii. 122 (1890); Nutt. in Fras. Cat. 

 (1813), under Ebcagnns, and Gen. ii. 240 (1818), under Shepherdia. 

 Shrub 5 — 18 ft. high, little spinescent: leaves silvery-scurfy on both 

 sides, mostly oblong, obtuse, cuneate at base, 1 — 1^4 ^^- long: staminate 

 ii. II5 lines long; pistillate 1 line: fr. ovoid, 2% lines long, subsessile, 

 scarlet, acidulous and edible. — From the Mono Lake region northward, 

 on the eastward slope of the Sierra only. Common in the Great Basin, 

 and called Buffalo Berry. 



Ordek lvii. DAPHN0IDE>E. 



Veutenat, Tableau du Regne Vegetal, ii. 235 (1799). 



Small family, intermediate between the preceding and the Caprifoli- 

 acese. We have but one member, of the genus 



1. DIRCA, Linnfciis (Leatheewood). Branching deciduous shrubs, 

 with smooth and very tenacious brown bark; the wood also very tough 

 and flexible. Flowers in fascicles of about 3, appearing before the 



