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ample, pyramidal, at lengtli rather loose.— The specimens are 2° high, glab- 

 rous throughout ; leaves lanceolate, 2-3' long and 6-9" wide ; sepals yellow- 

 ish-white, open and not at all appressed to the achenium ; scantily fruiting ; 

 achenium 3" long. East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada; on dry slopes; 

 7-8,000 feet altitude ; August. Var. lapatWolium was found at Kotzebue 

 Sound by H. & A. Specimens collected by Dall on the Youkon, and by Dr. 

 Torrey (426) near Donner Pass, California, all with broadly ovate leaves, 

 connect the two varieties. (1,071.) 



ELEAGNACE^. 



Shepheedia Canadensis, Nutt. From Vermont to Newfoundland and 

 Wisconsin, northward to the Arctic Circle and west to the Rocky Mountains 

 and Washington Territory ; south in the mountains to Wyoming, Colorado 

 and New Mexico. East Humboldt and Clover Mountains, Nevada, and in 

 the Wahsatch and Uintas ; 6-9,000 feet altitude ; July-September. (1,072.) 



Shepheedia aegentea, Nutt. DC. Prodr. 14. 608. Leaves elliptic or 

 oblong-ovate, obtuse, attenuate at base, silvery on both sides, as well as the 

 branches and flowers, slightly dotted with ferruginous scales ; filaments pu- 

 bescent. — A shrub 8-15° high, somewhat spiny ; the leaves very variable in 

 size, h-2' long and 2-10" wide ; berries 2" in diameter, scarlet, peUucid and 

 edible. From the Saskatchewan southward ; Utah, (Stansbury ;) Nevada, 

 (Anderson and Torrey ;) New Mexico, (Fendler.) Frequent on stream-banks 

 in Western Nevada. Fruit ripening in July. (1,073.) 



Eleagnus^ aegentea, Pursh. DC. Prodr. 14. 609. A stoloniferous un- 

 armed shrub, 6-12° high, the younger branches covered with ferruginous 

 scales ; leaves 1^-4' long and 9"-2¥ wide, broadly or narrowly elliptic, rather 

 acute at each end, or lanceolate and undulate, silvery-scurfy and more or less 

 ferruginous ; flowers numerous, deflexed, silvery without, pale yellow within, 

 fragrant, 3-5" long, the tube broadly oval, the limb funnelform ; fruit globose- 

 ovoid, dry and mealy, edible, 4-5" in length. Canada and west to the Sas- 

 katchewan and Rocky Mountains, to latitude 68° ; Northern Minnesota and 



' ELEAGNUS, L. Flowers perfect. Calyx-tube inclnding the free ovary, the limb cyllndric-cam- 

 paaulate or tubular below, parted above into 4 valvate deciduous lobes, colored within. Disk glandu- 

 lose. Stamens 4, adnate to the calyx and alternate with its lobes, the free portion of the filaments very 

 short; anthers oblong. Style simple, straight ; stigma 1-aided. Fruit drupe-like, covered with the thick- 

 ened dry or fleshy closed calyx-tube ; the stone oblong, 8-striate.— Trees or shrubs, with alternate entire 

 petioled leaves and axillary pedicelled flowers. 



