Pl.ex.mon. 13. EL^AGNE^E. 31. Hippophae. 265 



Rhamnoides fructifera, foliis salicis, baccis leviter flavescentibns, Rail 

 Syn. 445. 



Ilhamnns secundus Clusii, Ger.em. 1334,9. 



Kliamniis primus Dioscoridis Lt.belio, sive littoialis, Park. 1006. 



Hippophae Rhamnoides, Lin. S. P. 1452. 



Hippophae littoralis, Salisb. Prod. 71. 



Sea buckthorn. 



Sea-shore ; arborescent ; May. 



Small tree ; younger branches reddish ; leaves dark green 

 above, silvery beneath ; petioles short ; berry mucronulate, 

 reddish yellow, one-spotted. 



Fam. XIV. 14. THYMELE^. 



Perigonium free, tubulaj;, coloured; limb 4 rarely 5-cut; 

 aestivation imbricate ; stamens inserted in the mouth of the 

 tube, definite, 8 rarely 2 or 4, if there is less or only as 

 many as the lobes, opposite; but if twice as many, in two 

 series, the upper series opposite to the lobes, the lower 

 alternating ; barre?i Jilaments few ; anthers 2-celled ; cells 

 opening lengthways in the middle; ovary simple, ovule 1, 

 pendulous, placentarium lateral, subapicular; slyle 1; stigma 

 not cut ; pericarf.'> nutlike or drupaceous ; perisperm 0, 

 or very thin, flpshy ; corculum straight, inverse ; radicle 

 short, above: cotyledons plano-copvex; plumula incon- 

 spicuous. — Stem shrubby; ^-ark very tough; leaves alter- 

 nate or opposite, not in the least cut ; stipule ; Jiowers 

 capitate, or spiked; terminal or axillary, solitary. 



32. DAPHNE. Dioscorides. Daphne, 



Perigonium funnelshape, withering; limb 4-cut; stamens 8, 

 hidden; 5/y/e terniinal, very short; stigma capitate; drupe 

 berrylike; putamen crustaceous, shining. — Stem shrubby, 

 naked at bottom; leaves spread, or rarely opposite ;^Oi^^ers 

 bracteated, axillary or terminal, often glomerate. 



A. Perigonium separable into 2 lamina ; Jiowers lateral, 

 coloured; leaves annual, Mezereon. 



1. Daphne Jlorida. Floivering daphne. 



Flowers lateral, sessile, in threes ; leaves lanceolate, baldj 

 appearing after the flowers, annual. 



Chamaelea (levmanica, sive Mezereon, Ger. em. 1402. 



Dapi^iue Mezereinn, Lin. S. P. 509. 



Thyraaeiea Mezereura, Gcertn. Sem.etFr. 1, 188. 



Daphne floriHi, '<alisb. Prod. 281. 



German olive-spurge. 



Woods ; shrubby ; March and April. 



