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1. Evergreen. 2. 



Deciduous : bushy. D. Hezereum. 



2. Branches glabrous : somewhat bushy. D. Blagayana. 

 Branches pubescent: trailing. D. Cneorum. 



Family ELAEAGNACEAE. Oleaster ^ Family. 

 A rather small family of shrubs or small trees with per- 

 vasively rather than pleasingly fragrant flowers ; sometimes 

 prized in planting because of their silvery foliage. 



SHEPHERDIA. Buffalo Berry. 



Deciduous brown- or silvery-scurfy shrubs or small trees 

 often with branch-spines, with rather slender twigs ; some- 

 what angular homogeneous pale pith ; opposite low crescent- 

 shaped small leaf-scars with i bundle-trace ; no stipule-scars ; 

 often clustered more or less stalked buds with i or 2 pairs of 

 exposed scales ; entire moderate-sized short-stalked leaves ; small 

 dioecious apetalous flowers subsessile in crowded axillary clus- 

 ters ; and rather small drupe-like fruit. (Lepargyraea). 

 Twigs coarsely brown-scurfy : leaves elliptical, at most with 

 stellate hairs above but silvery- and brown-scurfy and 

 with stellate hairs beneath. S. canadensis. 



Twigs and both faces of the oblong leaves with fine silvery 

 scales. S. argentea. 



ELAEAGNUS. Oleaster. 



Deciduous brown- or silvery-scurfy shrubs or small trees, 

 often with branch-spines, with rather slender twigs; somewhat an- 

 gular homogeneous pale pith ; alternate low crescent-shaped small 

 leaf-scars with i bundle-trace ; no stipule-scars ; entire moderate- 

 sized stalked leaves ; solitary sessile small ovoid buds with 

 several scales ; small bell-shaped fragrant perfect stalked apetal- 

 ous flowers with corolla-like calyx, in small axillary clusters ; 

 and rather small drupe-like fruits. 



1. Scurf silvery, even on young buds. 2. 

 Scurf in part brown. 4. 



2. Adult leaves with few if any scales above. 3. 



Leaves scurfy on both faces, narrow. E. angustifolia spinosa. 



