THE SHEPHERDIA AND THE GARRYA FAMILIES. 385 



HABITATS AND LOCALITIES. 

 Sweet Gale — (^Myrica Gale.) 

 In bogs and upon Avet moors, not uncommon. Borders of Chat 

 Moss, especially in Botany-Bay Wood, where it grows three to four 

 or five feet high. (J. E.) Barton Moss. Unsworth Moss. Abundant 

 in the bog at the edge of Rostherne Mere. Boggy ground at Three- 

 lane-ends, Chorlton. Fl. spring. 



E. B. viii. 502; Baxter, vi. 489. 



CXXIV.— THE SHEPHERDIA FAMILY. Elceagndcea;. 



Shrubs and small trees, remarkable for having their leaves, and to a 

 great extent their stems also, covered with a silvery-white and leprous 

 scurf, as closely as fishes are covered with scales. One of them, called 

 the sea-buckthorn or Hipiwphae rhamrioides, (E. B. vi. 425.) grows 

 wild upon the coast of some parts of England, and has been trans- 

 planted into gardens. It is a tree of about eight or nine feet high, 

 the branches of which end in thorns, with linear and scattered leaves, 

 silvery on the under surface, and small unisexual flowers, the males 

 gi'owing in clusters resembling catkins, the females solitary in the 

 axils. The only other species commonly cultivated is the Shepherdia 

 argentea, the ovate-lanceolate and pointed leaves of which seem washed 

 over on both sides with some shining metallic solution. The scales, 

 when removed, and examined with a microscope, are found to be of a 

 star-like figure, and perfectly transparent. Except in the unisexual 

 flowers, and erect, not pendulous, ovule, this family difiers little from 

 the Thymelacese. 



CXXV.— THE GARRYA FAMILY. Garryacem. 



A little family of Californian shrubs, interesting to Manchester 

 botanists in its principal species, the Garrya ellipfica, a beautiful ever- 

 green, with oval and opposite leaves, found occasionally upon the lawns 

 of villa residences. The flowers, which appear in early spring, grow 

 in handsome green pendulous catkins, four or five inches long when 

 fully opened, and rendered perfectly cylindrical by their large and 

 elegantly concave and connate bracts. 



I am indebted for my knowledge of this very interesting and curious 

 plant to the kindness of my friend Herman Reddclien, Esq., whose 

 charming grounds might well be named the Alderley Botanic Gardens. 



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