H. rhamnoides, var. taurica, twenty-one feet high, with a 
trunk fourteen inches in girth. Further on is a tree of 
H. salicifolia, from thirty-five to forty feet high, spreading 
twenty-five feet, with a trunk four feet three inches in 
girth, at two feet from the ground. Nearer the Temperate 
House is a solitary example of ordinary H. rhamnoides. 
It is fourteen feet high with a spread of twelve feet, and 
a trunk seventeen inches in girth. : 
Buckthorn has been used to bind shifting sands, and 
protect the seeds of thé Pinus Pinaster sown under it. 
Loudon figures a variety angustifolia (op. sup. cit. vol. 
vii. t. 174a) with pendulous branches, which he designate 
a highly ornamental tree. Both male and female of th 
variety existed in the gardens of the Horticultural Socie 
of London. 
Our drawing was made from a specimen taken from the 
group by the pond near the Palm House. : 
Descr.—A shrub or small tree clothed in all the yo 
parts with peltate, fringed, silvery or brown sca 
dicecious, spiny. Branches very rigid, often ending i 
spine. Leaves alternate, crowded. JHlowers very sm 
both sexes solitary in the axils of deciduous bracts. M 
jlowers in deciduous spikes ; perianth two-leaved, ineluc 
four stamens with very short filaments. Female f 
in short racemes, the axes of which grow out into spi 
tipped branchlets; perianth tubular, enclosing the 
becoming fleshy in fruit; style exserted. Berries or: 
red, ovoid, four or five lines long.—W. Bortine Hems 
Figs. 1 and 2, male flowers; 3, the same laid open showing th 
4, a female flower; 5, gynzeceum; 6, a fruit; 7, scales from the san 
fruit, from which part of the succulent perianth has been removed 
seed; 10, the same in section showing one cotyledon of the : 
radicle and the small plumule :—all enlarged except fig. 1, whichis natur 
