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SEA BUCKTHORN 



A spinescent shrub, with scurf-like peltate silvery or bronze 

 scales, and willowy habit. 



Floral formula P 2 A 2+2 with a large central disc. ? 

 P 2 6r 1. Flowers very small and inconspicuous, in the axils 

 of the lowermost scale-like bracts of the dwarf shoots ; the 

 </ yellow, each with a perianth of two ligulate lobes and 

 4 stamens, anemophilous ; the $ greenish with the peri- 

 gone densely beset with speltate scales. Ovary of one 

 carpel, containing one seed ; stigma erect. 



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Fig. 70. Sea Buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides. A, , and B, ? flower- 

 ing shoots; C, <? , andD, ? flower in longitudinal section; E, fruit in 

 vertical section ; F, one of the peltate scales, p. 229 (E and P). 



[The only similarly silvery scaled shrub likely to be 

 met with is Elceagnus, and it has no spines. Moreover 

 the flowers are hermaphrodite, and in the axils of ordinary 

 leaves.] 



