TREES AND SHRUBS 



a many-flowered upright cluster, flowers in pairs ; Pejiaiith lobes long, reflexed-i 

 Fruit a drupe. 



Leaves alternate, obovate-lanceolate, petiolate, entire, glabrous, glossy, 

 light green. 



An evergreen shrub, 4-5 ft. ; Branches spreading. 



Native of E. Europe; introduced 1759. First discovered by Tournefort on 

 coast of Black Sea. 



Class I Dicotyledons 



Division IV. . . . Incompletce 

 Natural Order . . . Elceagnacece 



Trees or shrubs with alternate or opposite exstipulate leaves, entire, with 

 silvery or brown scurfy scales; Floivcrs 1-2-sexual, white or yellow, regular, 

 axillary, fascicled or cymose ; Calyx 2-4-lobed, or 2-4 distinct sepals ; Stamens 

 adnate to calyx tube, in males twice as many as lobes, in 2-sexual flowers 

 as many as lobes and opposite to them ; Ovarjj superior, enclosed in thickened 

 base of calyx tube, 1-celled ; Fruit indehiscent, enclosed in tube, 1 -seeded. 



In Europe, the only Order containing shrubby plants with scurfy leaves. 

 They differ from Thymelaaacea? chiefly in having 1 erect ovule. 



OLEASTER, or WILD OLIVE, Elo'agnus angustifoUa. 



Parks, gardens, shrubberies. May. Prefers a rather dry soil. The species of 

 Elajagnus are very ornamental shrubs or small trees, with conspicuous silvery 

 foliage. Useless growth may be cut away in late summer. They are propa- 

 gated by cuttings in sandy soil in cold frame in September ; layering in October ; 

 seeds sown in boxes of light soil in temperature of 55° in March. 



Flmvers yellow within, silvery scales outside, fragrant, usually bisexual, in 



solitary or axillary clusters of 1-3 ; Perianth canipanulate, 4-lobed ; Stamens 4, 



alternating with perianth lobes ; Ovary superior, 1-celled, style linear, long ; 



Fruit a fleshy drupe, ovid-oblong, red, sweet, mealy. 



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