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SEA BUCKTHORN 



A spinescent shrub, with scurf-like peltate silvery or bronze 

 scales, and willowy habit. 



Floral formula </ P 2 J. 2+2 with a large central disc. $ 

 P 2 Gl. Flowers very small and inconspicuous, in the axils 

 of the lowermost scale-like bracts of the dwarf shoots ; the 

 <? yellow, each with a perianth of two ligulate lobes and 

 4 stamens, anemophilous ; the $ greenish with the peri- 

 gone densely beset with speltate scales. Ovary of one 

 carpel, containing one seed ; stigma erect. 



Fig. 70. Sea Buckthorn, Hippophaerhamnoides. A, $ , and J5, ? flower- 

 ing shoots; C, c? , andJD, ? flower in longitudinal section; E, fruit in 

 vertical section ; F, one of the peltate scales, p. 229 (E and P). 



[The only similarly silvery scaled shrub likely to be 

 met with is Elceagnus, and it has no spines. Moreover 

 the flowers are hermaphrodite, and in the axils of ordinary 

 leaves.] 



