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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



leaves, which only come out after the flowers. These last are 

 arranged in short racemes axillary to the scales or bracts borne at the 

 base of the young branches. 



The Sallow-Thorns (HippopJiae ;' Fr., Argoussier) have also dioeci- 

 ous flowers (figs. 289-296). The perianth consists of two lobes, 



Hippophae rhamnoides (Sea BucMhorii). 



Fig. 289. 



Male flowering 

 branch. 







Fig. 291. 



Fig. 292. 



Female flower Longitudinal section 

 (magnified). of female flower. 



Fig. 293. 

 Fruiting branch (3). 



which cohere up to a variable height. In the male flowers (fig. 290) 

 it bears four (or more rarely three) stamens with introrse anthers ; 2 



1 L., Gen., n. 1106. — Adaits., Tarn, des PL, Gen. n. 2112. — Nees, Gen., iii. n. 19. — Meissn., 

 ii. 80.— J., Gen., 75.— G^ertn., Fruct., i. 199, Prodr., 607. 



t. 42.— Lame., Diet., i. 248; III., t. 808.— A. 2 The pollen-grains are ovoidal, with three 



Rich., Hon., 387, 4C0, 402, t. 24, fig. 2.— Endl., folds. They become spherical in water, with 



three narrow papillose bands (H. Mohl„ loc. cit.). 



