LIST OF HIGHER SEED-PRODUCING PLANTS. 373 



HERB.: Sheldon 1611, Ramsey Co.; Sandberg 485 r 

 Vasa; Herb. Sheld. 1903, Ramsey Co.; Herb. Wickersheim 113 r 

 Mankato. 



LXXV. ELAEAGNACEAE. Oleaster Family. 



Endlicher, Gen. PI. 333 (1836-40); Bentham and Hooker, Gen. Plant. 

 Ill, 203 (1880); Baillon, Hist. PI II, 487 (1870). 



Genera: 3; temperate N. hemisphere and S. in Asia, 

 Phillipines and to Australia. 



Species: 16; 12 in Elaeagnus (B. and H.); ?10 fossil 

 from Tertiary rocks. 



LEPTARtiYRAIA RAF. Am. Mo. Mag. II, 176 (Jan. 1818). 



Sheplierdia NUTT. Gen. II, 240 (later, 1818). 



Benth and Hook., Gen. PL III, 204; Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 356; 

 Schenck, Palaeophyt. 649; O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen II, 585. 



Living species: 3; N. America; 1, mts. of S. Utah; 1, 

 Canada and Brit. Col. ; 1, E. Sts. 



Leplargyraia argentea (NUTT.) GREENE, Pittonia II, 122 



(1890). 



Eleagnus argentea NUTT. Fras. Cat. (1813). 

 Hippophae argentea PURSH, X F1. Am. 1, 113 (1814). 

 Shepherdia argentea NUTT. Gen. II, 240 (1818). 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 449; Webb., Fl. Neb. 127; Wats., 

 Fl. Calif. II, 62; Coult., Fl. Colo. 322; Upham, Fl. Minn. 121; Mac., Fl. 

 Can. I, 422; Wats., KingExp. 318. 



North America: Saskatchewan and Assiniboia to 

 Minn., Neb., Kan., N. Mex. and W. to Sierra Nevada mts. 



Minn, valley: In small numbers along the extreme 

 W. edge, in Dakota; extending into Minn, near Brown's valley; 

 high sheltered slough edges and thickets. 



ELAEAGNUS LINN. Gen. 84 (1737). 



Octal-ilium LOUR. Cochinch. 90 (1790). 



Benth. and Hook. Gen. PL III, 204; Durand, Ind. Gen. Plian. 356; 

 Schenck, Palaeophyt. 649. 



Living species: 27-30 described; 12 reduced; S. 

 Europe; temperate and tropical Asia, Australia and N. Amer- 

 ica. Europe, 1; Russia, 1; N. America, 1. 



Fossil species: Elaeagnaceae described from Tertiary 

 of Bonn, Spitzbergen and Greenland (Heer). 



Elaeagnus argentea PURSH, Fl. Am. 114 (1814). 



E. commutata BEBNH. Thur. Allge. Gartenz, II, 95 (1819?). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 449; Mac., Fl. Can. I, 420; Upham, 



