LXII. JELiKAGNA^CEjE : i:LiEA'GNUS. 



697 



1362. E. h. angustif61ia. 



E. 



h. angustifolia. 



1'63. E. h.orien- 

 taiis. 



Varieties. 



i E. A. 1 angustifolia Bieb. E. angustifolia L 

 {fg- 1362.) Leaves lanceolate, 

 shining. Fruit insipid. This is 

 the most common sort in British 

 gardens. 



f "Ea. h. 2 dactt/Ufonms. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, shining. Fruit date- 

 shaped, eatable. 



5" E. h. 3 orienfalis. E orientalis L. 

 (Pall. F!. Ross., i. t. 5. ; and our 

 Jig. 1363.) Branches not spiny. 

 Fruit date-shaped, eatable ; almost 

 as large as that of a jujube, and 

 used in the dessert in Persia, where 

 it is called zinzeyd. The flowers 

 are more fragrant than those of 

 Horticultural b'ociety's Garden. 

 1' E. h. 4 spinosa. E. spinosa L. Branches spiny. Leaves lanceolate. 

 Fruit insipid. Nepal. Horticultural Society's Garden. 



The silvery whiteness of the foliage of this tree renders it a most con- 

 spicuous object in plantations ; and hence, in any landscape where it is wished 

 to attract the eye to a particular point, it may be usefully employed. 



s 2. E. arge'ntea Ph, The silveTy-leaved Elasagnus, or Wild Olive Tree. 



Identification. Pursh Sept., 1. p. 114. ; Nutt. Gen. Amer., 1. p. 97.; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1S36. 

 Synonyme. ^Missouri Silver Tree, V. S. ofX. Amer. 



Engraving. Our fig. 1364. from a dried specimen, which Mr. Shepherd of the Liverpool Botanic 

 Garden received from Mr. Nuttall. 



Sj)ec. Char., 8fc. Not spiny. Leaves waved, oval-oblong, rather 

 acute, glabrous on both surfaces, and covered with silvery 

 scales. Flowers aggregate, nodding. Sexes apparently dioe- 

 cious. Fruit roundish-ovate, about the size of a small cherry, 

 cartilaginous, 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 bushy deciduous shrub or low tree. Hudson's Bay ; and 

 found on the argillaceous broken banks of the Missouri, 

 near Fort Mandan. Height 8 ft. to 13 ft. Introduced in 

 1813. Flowers yellow ; July and August. 



1364. .argintea. Accordiug to Pursh, Shcpherd/a argentea Nutt. resembles 



the j^laeagnus argentea Pursh so 

 jnuch, without the fruit, that, in this state, one 

 might easily be mistaken for the other. 



', Sfe E. salicifulia 

 species apparently 



1365. E. conKrta 



D. Don (/g. 1366.) is a 

 very distinct, and tolerably 

 hardy, of which we 

 have only seen one 

 plant about 3 ft. high, 

 in the arboretum at 

 Kew. It promises to 

 be a most valuable ad- 

 dition to our nearly 

 hardy shrubs. 



afc ^Icedgnus conferta 

 Hort., and our^g.1365. 

 from a living plant in 

 the Horticultural So- 



1366 E. 9alicif6Ua. 







