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but 3 francs ; specimens were formerly sold at 60 francs each, and one of those 
first discovered was sold for 200 frances.” (Spence in Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. iv., 
for 1830, p. 148.) A shrub so common throughout Europe and Asia could 
not escape being known to the Greeks and Romans; but to what use they 
applied it is uncertain. In modern times, its leaves form the food of sheep, in 
poor maritime pastures, where the sheep sometimes also eat the berries. In 
Dauphiny, a decoction is made of these berries, which is used for the same pur- 
pose as that made from the berries of the Solanum Dulcamara, in Wales ; 
viz., to remove cutaneous eruptions. According to Pallas, the berries of 
the sea buckthorn are gratefully acid, and are much eaten by the Tartars, 
who make a jelly or preserve of them, and serve them up with milk or 
cheese, as great dainties. The fishermen of the Gulf of Bothnia prepare a 
rob, or jam, from them, which imparts a grateful flavour to fresh fish; and a 
kind of sauce is also made from them in the south of France. In some 
parts of France and Switzerland they are considered poisonous. J. J. Rous- 
seau, in his Réverie du Promeneur Solitaire, vii. Promenade, relates a curious 
story respecting his having made a botanical excursion in the neighbourhood 
of Grenoble, with a local botanist, who, though he saw him eating the 
fruit, which he knew, or believed to be, poisonous, was so polite, or regarded 
Rousseau with so much respect, that he durst not presume to warn him of 
his danger. In Britain, and on the Continent, the sea buckthorn is some- 
times planted as hedges ; and, as it endures the sea breeze, and throws up suck-~ 
ers free!y from the roots, it is a useful plant for fixing drift sands, along with the 
grasses Psamma, E’lymus, Carex, &c., and also for producing woody scenery 
in marine situations, where few other trees or shrubs will grow. In pleasure- 
grounds, when trained to a single stem, it forms a small, durable, and very 
interesting tree, from the dull pewter-like tinge of its foliage in summer, and the 
fine effect of its berries in autumn; but it must be recollected that the berries 
will not be produced unless both sexes are planted contiguously. As the 
flowers, especially those of the male plants, come out very early in the season, 
their buds, which are in spikes, have a conspicuous appearance during winter, 
and contrast finely with the fruit on the female plants, which remains on 
through the winter, after the leaves drop off, unless it is eaten by birds. 
In British nurseries, plants are com- ; 
monly increased by suckers, which 
are produced in abundance; and a 
deep sandy soil is suitable for grow- 
ing the plant to a large size. It may 
be planted in elevated and exposed 
situations and on the sea coast, where 
few other trees will grow. 
¥ & 2. A. sauiciro‘~ia D. Don. 
The Willow-leaved Hippophae, 
Sea Buckthorn, or Sallowthorn. 
Identification. Don Prod. Fl. Nep., p. 68. ; Lodd 
Cat., ed. 1836. 
Synonyme. H. conférta Wail. in MSS. of the 
Catalogue of the Linnean Society’s Indian 
Herbarium, Royle’s Iliust., p. 323. 
Engraving. Our fig. 1207. 
Spec. Char.,§c. Without thorns, up- 
right, branched. Leaves lanceolate, 
obtuse, whitely tomentose, as are 
the branchlets. A native of Siri- 
nagur, in Nepal, whence it was 
introduced in 1822. Judging from 
the plants in the Horticultural So- 
ciety’s Garden, and in the arbo- 1207 
retum of Messrs. Loddiges, it appears to be a much more robust 
species than H. Rhamndides, though probably more liable to be injured by 
