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ciety's Garden, promises to be hardy ; but the only plants which we have 

 seen are too young to enable us to decide with certainty. 



GENUS II. 



//IPPO'PHAE L. THE HIPPOPHAE, SEA BUCKTHORN, or SALLOWTHORN. 

 Lin. Syst. Dice^cia Tetrandria. 



Identification. Lin. Gen., 517., in parf. 



Synonymes. Rhamnoides Tourn. Cor. 53. ; Argoussier, Fr. , Haffdorn, or Sanddorn, Ger. ; Ip- 

 pofae, Ital. ; Espino amarillo, Span. 



Derivation. Hippophaes, or Hippophues, was the name of a shrub mentioned by Theophrastus and 

 Dioscorides ; and which is supposed to be the same as the hippophyes of Pliny. The derivation 

 is supposed to be from hippos, a horse, and pfiao, to brighten ; and, as according to the Nouveau 

 Du Hamel the plant was employed by the Greeks as a medicine for horses, it may have been given 

 to them to make their coats sleek and shining, and have thus procured its name. 



Gen. Char., fyc. Flowers unisexual, dioecious. Male flower. Calyx -arched, 

 seeming as if constituted of two leaves connate at the tip. Stamens 4, not 

 extended out of the calyx. Female flower. Calyx tubular, cloven at the 

 top, including the ovary, and becoming at length succulent. Style short. 

 Stigma long. Fruit a polished achenium, furrowed at one side, with an 

 acid juice. (G. Don.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous ; narrow, entire, scaly, and 

 silvery, especially beneath. Flowers axillary, pedunculate, small. Fruit 

 succulent, eatable. Shrubs or low trees ; natives of Europe and Asia. 

 Ornamental in British gardens, on account of their grey silky foliage, and 

 of their berries. Propagated by seeds, layers, or suckers, in common soil ; 

 and valuable in scenery as attracting attention by their white aspect, and 

 standing the sea breeze. 



a 1. H. RHAMNOI'DES L. The Buckthorn-like Hippophae, Sea Buckthorn, 

 or Sallowthorn. 



Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 1452. ; Smith Eng. Flora, 4. p. 238. ; Eng. Bot., t. 425. 



Synonymes. Rhamnoides florifera sfelicis f61io Tourn. Cor. 53. ; Rhamnoides fructifera Raii Syn. 

 445. ; Argoussier faux Nerprun, Fr. ; Weidenblattriger Sanddorn, Ger. ; in the Alps of Swit- 

 zerland it is called Arve, or Saule pineux. 



Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 425. ; Fl. Dan., t. 265. ; N. Du Ham., 6. t. 80. ; and our fig. 1367. 



Spec. Char., $c. Branches each ending in a 

 spine. Leaves linear-lanceolate, mostly blunt- 

 ish, dark green, and minutely dotted, not 

 scaly on the upper side ; silvery as well as 

 scaly on the under one. (Smith.) A low 

 deciduous tree or large shrub. Europe, on 

 sandy sea coasts ; in England, in various 

 places on the east and south-east coast ; but 

 not in Scotland. Height 15ft. to 20 ft. Flowers 

 yellow ; May. Berries bright orange-co- 

 loured, and produced in great abundance ; 

 ripe in September, and remaining on the 

 tree as long as the leaves, and frequently till 

 the following spring. 



Varieties. 



X & H. R. 2 angustifoKa Lodd. Cat. ed.1836. 

 (The plate of this tree in Arb. Brit., 

 1st edit., vol. vii. ; and our Jig. 1368., of 

 the female sex.) The leaves are obvi- 

 ously more narrow than those of the species ; the young branches 

 are pendulous ; and the tree is highly ornamental, more especially 

 when in fruit. 



