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at their bafc, which are egg-fliaped and fawed on 

 their edges, having a pretty long common footftalk. 

 This has been ufed to plant againft walls and houfes 

 to cover them, but the leaves falling off in winter, 

 the plants make but a poor appearance at that time- 



H I P P O P H A ii. 



SEA BUCK- THORN, or SALLOW-THORN. 

 Clafs 2 2. Order 4. Dioecia Tetrandria. 



nPHE flowers are Male and Female on different plants. 



The Empalement is one leaved, biparted, bivalve, entire at the 

 bottom: the divifions are roundilli, obtufe, concave and 

 eredl, meeting with their tops, but gaping at their fides. 



The Corolla is wanting. 



The Filaments are four, very lliort. The Anthers are oblong, 



angled, and almoft the length of the calyx. 

 * The Female. 



The Empalement is one leaved, oblong- ovate, tubulous, club- 

 bed, with a two cleft mouth, and deciduous. 

 The Corolla none. 



The Germen is roundilli, and fmall. The ^3;/^ is fimple and 

 very lliort. The Stigma thickift, oblong, ere(5t, and dotible 

 the length of ^he calyx. 



The Seed-veJJel i^ a globofe berry of one cell. 



The Seed one, roxrndilli. 



There is but one Species, with us^ viz. 



HiPPOPHA^ canadienfis. Canadian Sea-Buck- 

 Thorn. 



This rifes with flirubby ftalks to the height of eight 

 or ten feet, fending out many irregular branches, 

 having a brown bark, filvered over, and garnifhed 

 with very narrow fpear-fhaped leaves, of a dark 

 gretnon their upper fide, but hoary underneath, and 



reflexed; 



