. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . Family 95. ELAEAGNACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 194. 1836. Oleaster Family. Shrubs or trees, mostly silvery-scaly, or stellate-pubescent, with entire alternate or opposite leaves, and perfect polygamous or dioecious flowers clustered in the axils or at the nodes of twigs of the preceding season, rarely solitary. Lower part of the perianth of perfect or pistillate flowers tu
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . Family 95. ELAEAGNACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 194. 1836. Oleaster Family. Shrubs or trees, mostly silvery-scaly, or stellate-pubescent, with entire alternate or opposite leaves, and perfect polygamous or dioecious flowers clustered in the axils or at the nodes of twigs of the preceding season, rarely solitary. Lower part of the perianth of perfect or pistillate flowers tubular or urn-shaped, enclos- ing the ovary and persistent, the upper part 4-lobed or 4-cleft, deciduous (obscurely 2-lobed in the Old World Hippophac) \ perianth of staminate flowers 4-parted (2-parted in Hippophac). Corolla none Stamens 4 or 8. those of perfect flowers bcrrne on the throat of the perianth; filaments mostly short; anthers 2-celled, the sacs longitudinally dehiscent. Disk annular, or lobed. Ovary sessile, i-celled; ovule I. erect, anatropous; style slender. Fruit drupe-like, the perianth-base becoming thickened and enclosing the achene or nut Seed erect; embryo straight: endosperm little or wanting. Three known genera and about 20 species, widely distributed. Stamens as many as the perianth-parts ; flowers perfect or polygamous Stamens twice as many as the perianth-parts ; flowers dioecious ; leaves opposite, alternate. 1. Elacagnus. 2. Lepargyraea. ELAEAGNUS [Toum.] L. Sp. Fl. 1753- Silvery-scaly shrubs, some exotic species trees, with alternate petioled leaves. Flowers solitary or 2-4 together in the axils, pcdicelled, not bracted, perfect or polygamous. Perianth tubular below, constricted over the top of the ovary, the upper part canipanulate or urn- shaped, 4-lobed, deciduous, the lobes valvate. Stamens 4, borne on the throat of the perianth. Style linear, long. Fruit drupe-like, the ripened perianth-base fleshy or mealy, enclosing the striate or prooved nut
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