LIST OF HIGHER SEED-PRODUCING PLANTS. 373 



Herb. : Sheldon 1611, Ramsey Co. ; Sandherg 485, 

 Vasa; Herh. Sheld. 1903, Ramsey Co.; Herh. Wicker sheim 113, 

 Mankato. 



LXXV. ELAEAGNACEAE. Oleaster Family. 



Endlicher, Gen. PI. 333 (1836-40); Bentham and Hooker, Gen. Plant. 

 Ill, 203 (1880); Baillon, Hist. PI. II, 487 (1870). 



Genera: 3; temperate N. hemisphere and S. in Asia, 

 Phillipines and to Australia. 



Species: 16; 12 in Elaeagnus (B. and H.); ?10± fossil 

 from Tertiary rocks. 



LEPTAROYRAIA Raf. Am. Mo. Mag. II, 176 (Jan. 1818). 

 Sheplierclia Nutt. Gen. II, 240 (later, 1818). 

 Benth and Hook., Gen. PI. Ill, 204; Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 356; 

 Schenck, Palaeophyt. 649; O. Kuntze, Eev. Gen II, 585. 



Living species: 3; N. America; 1, mts. of S, Utah; 1, 

 Canada and Brit. Col. ; 1, E. Sts. 



Leptargyraia argentea (Nutt.) Greene, Pittonia II, 122 

 (1890). 



Meagnus argentea Nutt. Fras. Cat. (1813). 

 Hippophae argentea Pursh, F1. Am. I, 113 (1814). 

 Shepherdia argentea Nutt. Gen. II, 240 (1818). 

 Wats, and Coult.. Gray's Man. 6 ed. 449; Webb., Fl. Neb. 127; Wats., 

 Fl. Calif. II, 62; Coult., Fl. Colo. 322; Upham, Fl. Minn. 121; Mac, Fl. 

 Can. I, 422; Wats., King Exp. 318. 



North America: Saskatchewan and Assiniboia to 

 Minn., Neb., Kan., N. Mex. and W. to Sierra Nevada mts. 



Minn, valley: In small numbers along the extreme 

 W. edge, in Dakota; extending into Minn, near Brown's valley; 

 high sheltered slough edges and thickets. 



ELAEAGNUS Linn. Gen. 84 (1737). 

 Octarillum Lour. Cochinch. 90 (1790). 

 Benth. and Hook. Gen. PI. Ill, 204; Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 356; 

 Schenck, Palaeophyt. 619. 



Living species: 27-30 described; 12 reduced; S. 

 Europe; temperate and tropical Asia, Australia and N. Amer- 

 ica. Europe, 1; Russia, 1; N. America, 1. 



Fossil species: Elaeagnaceae described from Tertiary 

 of Bonn, Spitzbergen and Greenland {Heer). 



Elaeagnus argentea Pursh, Fl. Am. 114 (1814). 



E. commutata Bkrnh. Thur. All^e. Gartenz, II, 95 (1819?). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6ed. 449; Mac, Fl. Can. I, 420; Upham, 



