396 Lleagnacee—Eleagnus. 
1. ELAAGNUS. 
Deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees with her- 
maphrodite clustered or solitary axillary flowers. Perianth 
campauulate or salver-shaped. Stamens 4 or 5. Fruit a 
spurious drupe formed of the fleshy perianth-tube and the 
l-seeded nut. A small genus scattered over the northern 
hemisphere. The classical name of the Wild Olive, hence the 
English name Oleaster. 
1. E. angustifolia, syn. HE. horténsis.—A very handsome 
and distinct small hardy tree with a few scattered spines, 
lanceolate oblong or ovate acute quite entire leaves covered 
on both sides as well as the branches with silvery glistening 
scales and fragrant flowers yellow within, scaly without, 
solitary or 3 or 4 together, produced in great profusion in 
Summer, and followed by red berries. A native of the South of 
Kurope aud Western Asia. 
2. EB. argéntea. Silver Berry.—A spreading shrub 8 to 12 
feet high, youne branches ferruginous. Leaves varying from 
lunceolate to broadly elliptical, clothed with silvery scales on 
both sides. Flowers axillary, clustered. Berries silvery, ribbed. 
A native of North America. 
EL. umbellata, syn. B. Jupduica, and £. refléxa.—The bean- 
tiful Japanese variegated varieties in cultivation appear to 
belong to this species, but in the absence of flowers and fruits it 
is impossible to identify them with the described species. 
E. ptugens is a spiny shrub of which there are variegated 
forms; and E&. léngipes, syn. LE. crispa, &. multiflora, ete., is 
another variable Japanese species. 
Hippophaé rhamnvides, Sea Buckthorn, is a deciduous 
shrub with narrow glabrous silvery foliage and dicecious 
flowers. Male flowers in axillary clusters, perianth bipartite. 
Stamens 4. Female flowers solitary; perianth slightly 2- 
lobed. Fruit membranous, included in the fleshy orange- 
yellow perianth-tube. A native of the eastern coast of England 
and various parts of Europe aud Asia. 
2, SHEPHERDIA. 
A small genus of North American deciduous dicecious shrubs. 
Male flowers clustered, with a quadripartite perianth valvate in 
bud, and 8 stamens alternating with an equal number of 
appendaves of the fleshy disk. Female flowers solitary, with 
