82 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
female—in the species with perfect flowers, bellshaped, with the limb 
4- or 6-cleft. Stamens 3 to 8, inserted on the edge of the glandular 
prolongation of the disk; anthers nearly sessile, 2-celled, openirg 
longitudinally. Ovary solitary, free from the perianth, 1-celled and 
l-ovuled; ovule 1, erect from the side of the ovary near the base, 
anatropous ; style 1, elongated, stigmatiferous on one side. Fruit a 
nut, which becomes fleshy or bony at maturity, indehiscent, enclosed in 
the persistent perianth or its base. Seed with a membranous or carti- 
laginous testa; albumen fleshy; embryo straight ; radicle inferior. 
GENUS I—HIPPOPHAE. Linn. 
Flowers dicecious. Male flowers in the axil of ovate scales, 1 flower 
in each scale: perianth of 2 leaves, at first cohering at the apex, at 
length free: stamens 4, included within the perianth. Female flowers 
solitary, axillary: perianth tubular, with an erect bifid limb: disk 
none: style short; stigma elongate. Achene covered by the perianth, 
which in fruit becomes enlarged and juicy, so as to resemble a berry. 
Prickly shrubs with narrow scattered leaves somewhat resembling 
those of an osier, but covered with silvery brownish scurfy scales 
beneath, at least when young. 
The name of this genus of plants comes from the Greek words, ixroc (hippos), & 
horse, and aw (phao), I cause to shine or glisten. It is the ancient name of some 
unknown plant given to horses to make them sleek. 
SPECIES L-HIPPOPHAE RHAMNOIDES. Lim. 
Piats MCCXLV. 
Reich. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DXLIX. Fig. 1165. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No, 2735. 
Leaves strapshaped or oblong-strapshaped, attenuated at the base 
into a very short indistinct petiole. Perianth of the male flowers with 
roundish-oval leaves. Anthers short. Under surface of the leaves 
and young branches clothed with shining, more or less silvery brown 
scales; scales cleft only at the margins. 
On sand-hills and waste places by the seashore. Very local. Abun- 
dant on the sand-hills at Deal, Kent, and in various places on the 
coast of Norfolk, between Great Yarmouth and Holkham; also 
about Alborough, Suffolk. It occurs on various other parts of the 
coast—Folkestone, Kent; near Canvey Island, and South Shoebury, 
Essex ; near Whitby, Yorkshire; between Gosford and North Berwick, ; 
