Elaeagnaceae 



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long, obscurely crenate. Flowers on peduncles 

 usually longer than the leaves, violet-purple 

 to white ; petals J an inch or more long ; spur 

 f of an inch long, rather slender and curved. 

 A low-stemmed violet usually with brilliant 

 blue flowers, growing in dry, sandy, shaded 

 or open ground at varying elevations through- 

 out the Rockies: flowering in June and July. 



Oleaster Family 



Shrubs or trees mostly silvery-scaly or 

 stellate-pubescent with entire leaves and 

 flowers clustered in the axils or at the 

 nodes of twigs of the preceding season; 

 fruit drupe-like. 



Stamens as many as the perianth parts ; flowers perfect 

 or polygamous ; leaves alternate. Elaeagnus. 



Stamens twice as many as the perianth parts; flowers 

 dioecious; leaves opposite. Lepargyraea, 



,,. A stoloniferous much branched 



Elaeagnus 



argentea shrub sometimes 12 feet high, 

 Pursh. the young twigs covered with 



Silver Berry. Drown scurf , becoming silvery. 



