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ELAEAGNACEAE. 
HippoPHAE. Sea Buckthorn. 
(Family Elaeagnaceae). 
Shrubs, commonly with termi- 
nal and axillary twig-spines, stel- 
lately pubescent and with silvery 
or browning small peltate scales: 
deciduous. Twigs very slender, 
subterete: pith small, brown, 
round, continuous. Buds minute, 
- solitary or collaterally branched 
in spine formation, sessile, round, 
or heart-shaped from the parting 
of the 2 scales, the end-bud lack- 
ing. Leaf-secars alternate, half- 
round or transversely elliptical, 
minute, low: bundle-trace 1: 
stipule-scars lacking. 
Winter-character references to 
Hippophie rhamnoides: — Bose- 
mann, 49; Fant, 31, f. 33; Schnei- 
der, f. 152; Ward, “Fo"-255," taae, 
191, f. 95; Willkomm, 4, 30, f. 37; 
Zuccarini, 30, pl. 16. 
Hippophde is tender and much less frequently seen in 
America than Hlaeagnus, from which it searcely differs in 
vegetative characters except in having none of its shoots end- 
ing in a developed bud, and in its more delicate twigs. 
Twigs for a time silvery: buds brown-scurfy. H.rhamnoides. 
