CHAP. XCVII. ELEAGNA CER. ELEA/GNUS. 1323 
¢ E.h. 4 spindisa; E. spinosa L.— Branches spiny. Leaves lanceolate. 
Fruit insipid. 
@ 2. E. arce'ntEA Ph. The silvery-/eaved Elewagnus, or Wild Olive Tree. 
Identification. Pursh Fl, Amer. Beye. 1. p. 114. ; Nutt. Gen, Amer., 1, p. 97.; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 
8 me. Missouri Silver Tree, U. S. of N. Amer. 
mgraving. Our fig. 1204. 
Spec. Char., §c. A shrub, from 8 ft. to 12 ft. high, not spiny. Leaves 
waved, oyal-oblong, rather acute, glabrous on both surfaces, and covered 
with silvery scales. Flowers aggregate, nodding. Sexes apparently 
dicecious. Fruit roundish-ovate, of about the size of a small cherry, car- 
tilaginous, covered with silvery scales, having 8 grooves; the flesh dry, 
farinaceous, eatable; the nucule subcylindric, its exterior part consisting of 
a tenacious woolly integument. A native of Hudson’s Bay, and found on the 
argillaceous broken banks of the Missouri, near Fort Mandan; flowering in 
Julyand August. (.Nuét.) It was introduced in 1813. There are plants in the 
Horticultural Society’s Garden, and in the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges. 
According to Pursh, Shephérdia argéntea Nutt, resembles the Elaagnus 
argéntea Pursh so much, without the fruit, that, in this state, one might 
easily be mistaken for the other. In the Garden of the London Horticultural 
Society, the shrub or low tree bearing this name is very distinct from any 
species of Eladgnus; but it differs from the species of that genus, in having 
opposite leaves and branches. Whether it is the plant meant to be described 
by Pursh, we are unable to determine ; it is certainly not the FE. argéntea 
figured in Watson’s Dendrologia, which appears to be Z. orientalis, the flowers 
being produced on the current year’s wood. The plant which is in the 
Horticultural Society’s Garden, and which may be considered provisionally 
as E. argéntea, is one of very great neatness and beauty ; and well deserving 
