OLEAN  , a

city of Cattaraugus county, in south-western New (Du Cange), influenced by olea, the olive-tree, lorandrum being York, U.S.A., on Olean Creek and the N. side of the Allegheny itself a corruption of rhododendron . The modern Greeks still river, 70 M . S.E. of Buffalo . Pop . (188o), 3036; (1890), 7358; know the plant asbobo8aOo , although in a figure in the Rinuccini (1900), 9462, of whom 1514 were foreign-born and 122 were MSS. of Dioscorides a plant is represented under this name, negroes; (1910 census), 14,743 . The city is served by the which, however, had rather the appearance of a willow herb Erie, the Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern, and the Pennsylvania (Epilobium) . The oleander has long been cultivated in green-railways (the last has large car shops here) ; and is connected houses in England, being, as Gerard says, " a small shrub of a with Bradford, Pa., Allegany, Pa., Salamanca, N.Y., Little gallant shewe"; numerous varieties, differing in the colour of their Valley, N.Y., and Bolivar, N.Y., by electric lines . Olean is flowers, which are often double, have been introduced . situated in a level valley 1440 ft. above sea-level . The sur- OLEASTER, known botanically as Elaea.gnus hortensis, a rounding country is rich in oil and natural gas . Six miles from handsome deciduous tree, 15 to 20 ft. high, growing in the Olean and 2000 ft. above the sea-level is Rock City, a group of Mediterranean region and temperate Asia, where it is commonly immense, strangely regular, conglomerate rocks (some of them cultivated for its edible fruit . The brown smooth branches pure white) covering about 40 acres .

They are remnants of. are more or less spiny; the narrow leaves have a hoary look a

bed of Upper Devonian Conglomerate, which broke along from the presence of a dense covering of star-shaped hairs; the joint planes, leaving a group of huge blocks . In the city . the small fragrant yellow flowers, which are borne in the axils are a public library, a general hospital and a state armoury; of the leaves, are scaly on the outside . The genus contains other and at Allegany (pop . 1910, 1286), about 3 M . W. of Olean, is species of ornamental deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small St Bonaventure's College (1859; Roman Catholic) . Olean's trees . E. argentea, a native of North America, has leaves and factory product was valued at $4,677,477 in 1905; the city is fruit covered with shining silvery scales . In E. glabra, from the terminus of an Ohio pipe line, and of a sea-board pipe line Japan, the evergreen leaves are clothed beneath with rust-for petroleum; and among its industries are oil-refining and coloured scales; variegated forms of this are cultivated, as the refining of wood alcohol, tanning, currying, and finishing also of E. pungens, another Japanese species, a spiny shrub leather; and the manufacture of flour, glass (mostly bottles), with leaves silvery beneath .