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THE SANDALWOOD FAMILY. 



4 stamens ; the females solitary, with a tubular perianth, minutely 2- 

 lobed, which becomes succulent, forming a berry round the true fruit. 

 The reduced perianth and clustered flowers show considerable affinity 

 with Gale in the Catkin family. 



1. Common Hippophae. Hippophae rhamnoides, Linn. 



(Fig. 874.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 425. Sallow-Thorn. Sea-Buckthorn.) 



A willow-like shrub, covered with a 

 scaly scurf, very close and silvery on 

 the under side of the leaves, thin or 

 none on the upper side, dense, and more 

 or less rusty on the young shoots and 

 flowers, the axillary shoots often ending 

 in a stout prickle. Leaves alternate, 

 linear, and entire. Male flowers very 

 small, in little clusters resembling cat- 

 kins. Females crowded, although soli- 

 tar}^ in each axil ; the perianth about 2 

 lines long, contracted at the top, with 

 the style shortly protruding, forming 

 when in fruit a small yellowish or brown 

 berry. 



In stony or sandy places, especially in 

 beds of rivers and torrents, in central 

 and eastern Europe and central and Rus- 

 sian Asia, also occasionally near the sea- 

 coasts of the Baltic and the North Sea. In Britain, very local, and only 

 near the seacoasts of some of the eastern counties of England. Fl. spring. 



Fig. 874. 



LXIV. SANDALWOOD FAMILY. SANTALACE.E. 



A family limited in Britain to a single species, but comprising 

 several exotic genera, chiefly tropical or southern, differing from 

 the Daphne family in the perianth combined with the ovary at its 

 base, in its valvate, not imbricate, lobes, and in minute but im- 

 portant particulars in the structure of the ovary. 



I. THESIUM. THESIUM. 

 Low herbs or undershrubs, with alternate entire leaves, no stipules, 



