. Rocky Mountain flowers : an illustrated guide for plant-lovers and plant-users. claia, olive-tree, agnos, sacred) PI. 33, fig. 10. Sepals 4, united into a tubular calyx, constricted above the ovary,petals none, stamens 4 on the throat of the perianth, style long, thread-like,fruit drupe-like, the fleshy or mealy base of the perianth enclosing the nut;Mowers solitary or 2-4 together in the axils, silvery outside, yellowish with-in ; leaves alternate, entire, silvery-scaly ; 3-12 ft. high; leaves oblong to lance-ovate, 1-4 in. long E. argentea Plate 33. BITTERSWEET FAMILY 1. Pachy
. Rocky Mountain flowers : an illustrated guide for plant-lovers and plant-users. claia, olive-tree, agnos, sacred) PI. 33, fig. 10. Sepals 4, united into a tubular calyx, constricted above the ovary,petals none, stamens 4 on the throat of the perianth, style long, thread-like,fruit drupe-like, the fleshy or mealy base of the perianth enclosing the nut;Mowers solitary or 2-4 together in the axils, silvery outside, yellowish with-in ; leaves alternate, entire, silvery-scaly ; 3-12 ft. high; leaves oblong to lance-ovate, 1-4 in. long E. argentea Plate 33. BITTERSWEET FAMILY 1. Pachystigma myrsinites 2. Forsellesia spinescens BUCKTHORN FAMILY 3. Rhamnus Smithii: Buckthorn 4. Ceanothus velutinus: Redroot 5. Ceanothus ovatus 6. Ceanothus Fendleri GRAPE FAMILY 7. Parthenocissus quinquefolia: Virginia Creeper SILVERBERRY FAMILY 8. Lepargyraea argentea: Buffalo Berry 9. Lepargyraea canadensis 10. Elaeagnus argentea: Silverberry SANDALWOOD FAMILY 11. Comandra pallida: Toad Flax MISTLETOE FAMILY 12. Phoradendrum juniperinum: Mistletoe 13. Razumovskya cyrtopoda. 216 BITTERSWEET ORDER Lepargyraea Rafinesque 1817 Buffalo Berry (Gr. lepos, scale, argyraios, silvery) (Shepherdia Nuttall) PI. 33, fig. 8-9. Sepals 4, united into an urn-shaped calyx, petals none, the pistillate flow-er with an 8-lobed disk nearly closing the mouth, style somewhat exserted,stamens 8, fruit drupe-like, the fleshy perianth base enclosing the nut; flowersaxillary, clustered, dioecious or polygamous; pistillate flowers solitary tofew ; leaves opposite, entire, brown or silvery-scurfy : shrubs. 1. Stems usually thorny, 6-20 ft. high; leaves ob- long, silvery above and below, 1-2 in. long L. argentea 2. Stems not thorny, 3-8 ft. high; leaves ovoid, silvery below only, in. long L. canadensis SANTALACEAE SANDALWOOD FAMILY Sepals 4-5, grown to the ovary, petals none, stamens 5, anthers con-nected by a tuft of hairs to the sepals, ovary 1-celled, ovules 2-4, style 1,fruit drupe-like or nut-li
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