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l~~l r~7 Bush 1 2 feet high. Leaves minute', 

 spines reflexed slender; bark brown and 

 membranous. Flowers in short leafy 

 racemes; pod brown with black seeds. 



Genista anglica, L. Needle Furze. G. tinctoria, a small 

 irregular, erect bush about 1 3 feet, has green smooth 

 striate angular shoots. The stipules are sharp and cover 

 the bud, but it can scarcely be called spinescent. 



Lycium chinense also comes here in regard to its thorns 

 (see p. 226). 



tt Taller shrubs from 810 up to 2030 feet 

 high, with more woody and thicker branches, 

 and with much stouter, woody and dark 

 coloured thorns. 



Shoots, buds, and leaves ferruginous or 

 silvery bronzed; leaves linear-oblong; buds 

 obovoid, lobed. Periderm brown; bark thick, 



fissured, scaly, and fibrous. Flowers small 

 yellowish-green, dioecious; fruit sub-globose, 



fleshy, orange-yellow, spotted. 



Hippophae rhamnoides, L. Sea Buckthorn (Fig. 116). 

 A shrub or almost a small tree up to 15 feet in height or 

 more, with numerous suckers, and densely branched. Twigs 

 silvery or golden with bright scales, and bearing old-gold 

 bronzed buds. Branches, with thorny dwarf-shoots, smooth 

 dark red-brown. Bark dark brown, peeling. 



Shoots and buds not bronzed; leaves broad 

 and toothed or cut ; buds pointed. Bark 

 dark coloured, purple-brown to blackish. 

 Fruits not orange nor spotted. 



7 Buds, twigs, leaf-scars and leaves sub- 

 opposite. Twigs polished, round, red- 

 brown to nearly black; periderm peeling; 

 bark fissured. Flowers greenish, small. 

 Berries black. 



