EI^AGNUS 



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spreading lobes about as long as the tube ; silvery outside like the under- 

 surface of the leaves, yellow inside^ stalk ^ in. long. Fruit oval, | in. long, 

 yellowish, silvery scaly ; flesh mealy, sweet. 



Native of S. Europe and W. Asia ; cultivated in England, according to 

 Alton, since the sixteenth century. It is a striking tree, especially when 

 associated with dark-leaved evergreens, because of the whiteness of the twigs 

 and under-surface of the leaves. In this respect, however, it is not so remarkable 

 as E. argentea, whose leaves are silvery on both sides, but it is a larger, better- 

 shaped tree. A kind of sherbet is made from the fruit in the Orient. In 



ELJEAONDS ARGENTEA. 



Central Europe, especially in the parks and gardens of Germany and Austria, 

 it is much planted, and as the foliage is much whiter under the continental 

 sun than it is in Britain, it often makes a very telling feature in the landscape. 



E. ARGENTEA, Pursk. SILVER BERRY. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 8369.) 



A deciduous shrub, 6 to 12 ft, high, of thin, erect habit, with rather slender 

 branches \ spreading by underground suckers ; young shoots covered with 



