EXLAEAGNACEAE. 247 
ELAEAGNUS. Oleaster. 
(Family Elaeagnaceae). 
Shrubs or small trees, often 
' twig-spiny, stellate-hairy or with 
often silvery or glistening-brown 
peltate scales: mostly deciduous. 
Twigs terete, rather slender: pith 
small, round, continuous. Buds 
small, solitary or _ collaterally 
branched in spine-formation or 
exceptionally superposed, sessile, 
round, conical or oblong, with 
about 4 exposed scales. Leaf- 
scars alternate, half-round, minute, 
more or less raised: bundle-trace 
1: stipule-scars lacking.—Refer- 
ences under Shepherdia. 
1. Evergreen. 2. 
Deciduous. 6. 
2. Silvery. E. macrophylla. 
Twigs brown-scaly. 3. 
3. Not variegated. E. pungens. 
Leaves variegated, crisped. 4. 
4. Variegation marginal. E. pungens variegata. 
Variegation median. 5. 
5. Center yellow. E. pungens Frederici. 
Blotched with yellow. E. pungens maculata. 
Marked with yellow and red. E. pungens Simoni variegata. 
6. Twigs and buds silvery or olivaceous. 7. 
Twigs and buds brown-scaly. 9. 
7. Without any brown scales. (1). E. angustifolia. 
Some scales brown. 8. 
8. End-bud elongated: twigs very signals: (2). E. umbellata. 
End-bud conical-ovoid. (3). E. argentea. 
9. Buds rather silvery and conical. E. argentea. 
Buds dark red-brown, subglobose. (4). E. multiflora. 
