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I. FDUQUIERIA. jQcotillo 



Spiny shrubs with several erect or ascending virgate steins 

 10 feet long or less, bearing leaves for but a short time in the sum- 

 mer, the spines formed of the indurated midribs of the leaves of the 

 previous season; leaves oblanceolate, spatulate, entire; flowers per- 

 fect, in thrysoid panicles at the ends of the branches, bright scarlet, 

 appearing long before the leaves; sepals 5; corolla 5-merous, gamo- 

 petalous. broadly tubular with spreading limb; stamens 10, epipetal- 

 ous ; fruit an ovoid capsule with many seeds. 



1. F. splendens. 



ELAEAGNACEAE. Oleaster Family 



Shrubs or trees with silvery lepidote or stellate pubescence; 

 leaves opposite or alternate, the blades entire; flowers perfect, poly- 

 gamous or dioecious, usually clustered in the axils of the branches 

 of the present or previous year; calyx of 4 or sometimes .2 sepals 

 surmounting the hypahthium; petals wanting; stamens 4 to 8 on the 

 tube of the hypanthium: pis-til simp'e. becoming a drupelike fruit. 



I. LEPARGYRAEA Hat. Buffalo-berry 



A g mi- with the character- of the family a- given above. 



Leaves ovnte or oval green above; stems not 



spiny; low shrub. l. /.. canadensis. 



Leaves oblong, silvery on both surfaces: stems 



spiny: tall, tree-like shrub. 2. L. argentea. 



