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In the Elaeagnaceae, the genus E/aeagnuus has furnished the 
most victims: in &. wmdellata, from Japan, one individual is killed 
to the snow line, while the other has some of the stems alive 
away out to the end; in A. multiflora, of which £. longipes is 
a synonym, also from Japan, small plants two feet tall were 
partly killed, while larger ones suffered no hurt whatever; £. 
commutata, known commonly as £. argentea, was killed to the 
snow line. The genus Hippophaé is represented in two species : 
one of these, 7. rhamnoides, from Europe and temperate Asia, 
and quite common in cultivation, was unharmed, but the rarer 
one from Nepal, 1. salicifolia, of which we had but a single 
large specimen some five feet tall, is dead. Lepargyraea ar, ii 
the buffalo-berry of the northwestern United States, is in a flou 
ishing condition. 
In the Araliaceae nothing was injured. There are growing in 
the fruticetum: Acanthopanax Maximowiczii, A. spinosum and 
A, sesstlifloruin ; Aralia Chinensis canescens ; and Eleutherococcus 
senticosus. In the dogwood family, Cornaceae, little damage w 
done, only C. glabrata being partly killed back. Other ones 
of Ce growing in the fruticetum and unharmed a C. 
macrophylla, circinata, stolonifera and its variety pe wih 
yellow-green branches, candidissima, alternifolia, brachypoda, san- 
guinea, Amomum and alba Srbirica. It is interesting to note in 
this eoaniecien that the common flowering dogwood, Cornus 
orida, so common in the garden grounds, had, so far as the 
writer examined them, but two bracts to the involucre this 
year, the outer two bracts either being entirely wanting or much 
reduced, with evident indications of having been injured by the 
severe winter. This deficiency gave the so-called dogwood 
flowers a very peculiar and meager appearance. A friend in New 
hood, and an examination proved the same state of things to 
exist here. 
Clethra canescens, in the Clethraceae, was badly killed back, only 
a few of the stems being alive to the tip, but the plants are sending 
up good strong breaks from the base. The common sweet-pepper 
bush, Clethra alnifolia, being a native, suffered no harm. In the 
