SEA BUCKTHORN 



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Hippophae rhamnoides, L. Sea Buckthorn (Figs. 118 

 and 119). The fruit results from one carpel immersed in 

 the calyx-tube ; the former becomes the stone containing 



Fig. 118. Sea Buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides. Fruiting branches 



(Sc). 



the seed, the latter the yellow-fleshed, watery covering. 

 Stone brown, 4 5 mm. long, smooth and shining, ovoid. 



