Tas. 8016. 
HIPPOPHAE ruamnorpes. 
Temperate Europe and Asia. 
EL#ZAGNACE. 
Hirrornaii, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 204. 
Hippophaé rhamnoides, Linn. ; Loudon, Arb. et Prut. Brit. vol. iii. p. 1324; 
ab H. salicifolia, Don, foliis subtus non tomentosis recedit. ’ 
Frutex vel arbor parva, saliciformis, dioica, spinosa, ramis rigidis folii 
perianthiisque dense lepidotis, lepidibus orbicularibus peltatis margine 
fimbriolatis. Folia alterna, conferta, lineari-lanceolata, 1-2 poll, longa, 
subtus argentea. Flores minutissimi, lepidoti, utriusque sexus ad axillas 
bractearum deciduarum solitarii. Flores mascu/i in spicas deciduas 
dispositi ; perianthium diphyllum, valvatum; stamina 4, inclusa, filamentis 
brevissimis. Flores feminet in racemos abbreviatos dispositi; racemi 
axis in ramum foliatum, apice spinosum excrescens; perianthium tubu- 
losum, supra ovarinm constrictum, fructiferum carnosum, nucem 
fovens, stylo longe exserto per totam fere longitudinem stigmatoso. 
Fructus baccatus, rubro-aurantiacus, monospermus. Semen exalbumino- 
sum. 
The Sea Buckthorn has been figured in numerous 
publications, but it has hardly received the recognition 
it deserves as an ornamental shrub in winter. Though 
naturally an inhabitant of the sea-shore and salt marshes, 
it flourishes where there is no accumulation of salt. The 
profusion of its orange-red berries, which are not taken by 
birds, in ordinary seasons, at least, and their persistence 
through the winter, entitle this shrub to a place even in a 
small garden. At Kew it succeeds remarkably well, both 
near the water and in the sandy soil of the Arboretum. 
Intending planters should bear in mind that the berries 
and male flowers are borne on different individuals, or there 
may be disappointment, as there often is with hollies. 
Propagation is usually from suckers or by layering, so there 
is no difficulty in obtaining a preponderance of female 
plants. On sandy sea-shores the Sea Buckthorn is often 
of procumbent habit, and not more than two or three feet 
high. In more favourable localities, and left to itself, 
it forms thickets six to eight feet high, and if kept to a 
single stem it grows much higher. 
The largest specimens of Hippophaé at Kew at the 
present time are growing in the beds between King 
William’s Temple and the Temperate House. First comes 
May Isr, 1905. : 
