698 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
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. 
HAIPPO’PHAE L. Tue Hirrornar, SEA BUCKTHORN, or SALLOWTHORN. 
Lin, Syst. Dicecia Tetrandria. 
Identification. Lin. Gen., 517., in part. 
Synonymes. Rhamndides Tourn. Cor. 53.; Argoussier, Fr., Haffdorn, or Sanddorn, Ger.; Ip- 
pofae, Ital.; Espino amarillo, Span. 
Derivati Hippoph 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 phad, 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., §c. Flowers unisexual, dicecious. — 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. 
¥ % |. H. Ruamnorpes L. The Buckthorn-like Hippophae, Sea Buckthorn, 
or Sallowthorn. 
Identification. Lin. Sp. Pl., 1452.; Smith Eng. Flora, 4. p. 238.; Eng. Bot., t. 425. 
Synonymes. Rhammndides florifera sAlicis folio Tourn. Cor. 53.; Rhamnoides fructifera Raii Syn. 
445.3 Argoussier faux Nerprun, F7.; Weidenblittriger Sanddorn, Gev.; in the Alps of Swit- 
zerland it is called Arve, or Saule épineux. 
Engravings. "Eng. Bot., t. 425.; Fl. Dan., t. 265.; N. Du Ham., 6. t. 80. ; and our jig. 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 15 ft. to20ft. 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. 
Parieties. 5 
¥ & H. R. 2 angustifolia Lodd. Cat. ed.1836. 
(The plate of this tree in Ard. Brit., . 
Ist edit., vol. vii.; and our jig. 1368., of 1367. H. Rhamnoldes. 
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. 
