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ELA AGNUS* angustifolia. 
Narrow-leaved Eleagnus. 
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TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA4. 
Nat. ord. ELHAGNER, 
ELAAGNUS L.— Flores hermaphroditi aut polygami. Calyx basi 
tubulosus; limbo campanulato, 4-5-fido, regulari. Stamina 4-5, laciniis 
calycis alternantia. Discus prominens, bipartitus aut annularis.  Nux 
calycis tubo incrassato carnoso intis osseo apice umbilicato et akenio 
oboyoideo constans. Arbores, foliis alternis, floribus in axillis foliorum 
pedicellatis. Ach. Richard. Monogr. p. 26. 
. angustifolia ; foliis lanceolatis utrinque argenteo-lepidotis. 
angustifolia. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd. 1. 688. Pallas fl. ross. 1. p. 10. 
t. 4. aliorumque. ' 
inermis. Mill. dict. n. 2. 
argenteus. Mench. méth. p. 638. 
. orientalis. Delile, according to A. Rich, but not of Linn. 
. hortensis «.  Bieb. taur. cauc. 1. 113. 
ramis spinosis, foliis ellipticis. 
E, spinosa. Linn. sp. Willd. 1. 689. 
E. hortensis 9. Bieb. taur. cauc. 1. 113, 
RHEE he 
A small, hardy, cinereous tree, growing from 15 to 
20 feet high, with the habit of some kind of Willow. Its 
flowers, which are produced in great quantities in the 
* The tausdyvos of Theophrastus was a plant with hoary leaves, growing 
in marshy places in Arcadia, and was probably a species of Willow, although 
certainly not Salix babylonica, as Sprengel states. It was named from its 
resemblance to the éaw/c, or olive, from which it differed in not bearing fruit. 
The plants to which the name is now applied are also something like the 
olive. The French call the Eleagnus chalef; a slight alteration, according 
to Golius, of khaléf, the Arabic name of the willow; but more probably of 
halaf, the Persian name of the tree itself. : 
It is proper to observe, that Dioscorides writes Eleeagrus, which means 
the wild olive ;—a reading that has been adopted by some Botanists, and 
which is most likely the true one. : 
