( 6o ) 
at their bale, which are egg-ihaped 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 failing off in winter, 
the plants make but a poor appearance at that time. 
HIPPOPHAE, 
SEA BUCK- THORN, or SALLOW-THORN. 
Clafs 22. Orders Bioecia Tetrandria. 
r T'HE flowers are Male and Female on different plants. 
•*“ * The Male. 
The Empalement is one leaved, biparted, bivalve, entire at the 
bottom: the divifions are roundiih, obtufe, concave and 
ereft, meeting with their tops, but gaping at their fides. 
The Corolla is wanting, 
The Filaments are four, very ihort. The Antherce 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 roundifli, and final I. The Style is Ample and 
very ihort. The Stigma thickiih, oblong, ereft, and double 
the length of the calyx. 
The Seed-veJJel is a globofe berry of one cell. 
The Seed one, roundiih. 
There is hut one Species, with us, viz. 
Hi ppophae canadienfis. Canadian Sea-Buck- 
Thorn . 
This rifes with fhrubby ftal.ks to the height of eight 
or ten feet, fending out many irregular branches, 
having a brown bark, filvered over, and garnilhed 
with very narrow fpear-fhaped leaves, of a dark 
green on their upper fide, but hoary underneath, and 
reflexed 
