DAPHNE.] THYMELE.E. 323 



A in., bright red, ovoid. DISTRIB. Europe (Arctic), Siberia. Acrid and 

 poisonous ; leaves used as a vesicant ; berries cathartic. 



ORDER LXIV. l,JAG'N,ffi. 



Shrubs or trees, with copious silvery or brown scales ; buds naked. 

 Leaves alternate or opposite, quite entire, exstipulate. Flowers small, 

 regular, 1-2-sexual, axillary, fascicled or eymose, white or yellow. Calyx 

 in the 2-sexual and female fl. tubular, 2-6 cleft, lobes imbricate or valvate 

 in bud ; in male fl. of 2 or 4 sepals free or connate below. Corolla 0. 

 Disk 0, or lining the calyx-tube, often thickened round the style. Sta- 

 mens adnate to the calyx-tube, in the male fl. twice as many as the lobes, 

 in the 2-sexual as many as and opposite the lobes ; anthers fixed by the 

 back or base. Ovary free, sessile, enclosed in the thickened calyx-base, 1- 

 cclled ; style filiform, stigma lateral ; ovule 1, basal, erect, anatropous. 

 Fruit indehiscent, enclosed in the calyx-tube. Seed ascending, testa thick 

 or thin, albumen or scanty ; embryo straight axile, cotyledons thick, 

 radicle inferior. DISTRIB. N. temp, and trop. zones ; genera 4 ; species 

 20. AFFINITIES. With Thymelece. PROPERTIES unimportant. 



1. HIPPOPH'AE, L. SEA BUCKTHORN. 



A shining silvery willow-like dioscious shrub. Leaves alternate. MALK 

 fl. in axillary clusters. Sepals 2. Stamens 4. FEM. fl. solitary. Calyx 

 tubular, minutely 2-lobed. Fruit a membranous utricle enclosed in the 

 succulent calyx-tube. Seed oblong, grooved on one side, testa crustaceous 

 shining, albumen a thin fleshy layer ; embryo amygdaloid. DISTRIB. 

 Europe, N. and Central Asia to the Himalaya. ETYM." doubtful. 



1. H. rhamnoi'des, L. ; leaves obovate or linear-oblong, petiole short. 

 Sandy sea-shores, not common ; indigenous in the S., naturalized as far N. as 

 Tsla and Fife; absent from Ireland. Shrub 1-8 ft.; branches slender and 

 subpendulous, or short and spinescent. Leaves ^-2 in., dull green above, 

 silvery beneath, flowers on the old wood ; male minute ; sepals broadly 

 oblong; filaments short; anthers yellow, fruit ^ in. diam., globose or 

 oblong, orange-yellow. The description of the fruit I owe to Dr. Dickson. 



ORDER LXV. LORANTHA'CE^. 



Evergreen parasitic shrubs. Stem often jointed. Leaves usually oppo- 

 site, coriaceous, exstipulate.. Flowers 1-2-sexual ; inflorescence various. 

 Sepals thick, 4, 6, or 8, superior, free or united into a tubular calyx, lobes 

 valvate in bud. Corolla 0. Stamens, one adnate to each calyx-lobe, 

 filaments various or 0; anther 2-celled, opening by slits, or many-relied 

 and opening by as many pores. Disk annular, epigynous or 0. Ovary 

 inferior, 1-celled ; style simple or 0, stigma simple ; ovule 1, reduced to 

 a nucleus or to an embryo sac, basal, erect, orthotropous, aduate to thfe 

 walls ^ ^ 1C var y- Berry 1-seeded. Seed erect, testa thin, albumen 

 copious neij hy ; embryos ] or more, cotyledons thin or plano-convex, radicle 



