264* 30. Thesium. 12. S ANTAL ACE AL PL ex* mom 
30. THESIUM. Linnaeus. Thesium . 
Perigonium tubular, funnel-shape or hypocrateriform, 
4 or 5-cut, persistent, not glandular, with no epigynous 
disk ; stamens furnished on the outside with a fine bundle 
of villi ; stigma nicked ; pericarp barked, crowned. — Leaves 
alternate, slender, linear ; racemes terminal ; bractece leaf- 
like, persistent, outer ones soldered to the peduncle; lateral 
ones small, sometimes wanting ; flowers whitish on the 
inside. 
Thesium linophyllum . Flax-leaved thesium . 
Stem erect, rather branchy ; racemes leafy ; flowers pe- 
dicelled ; Iractece 3 ; leaves linear, lanceolate ; tule of the 
perigonium very short. 
Linaria adulterina, Raii Syn. 202; Ger. em . 555, 14. 
Pseudolinaria montana alba, Park. 459. 
Thesium linophyllum, Lin. S. P. 301. 
Thesium lini folium, Salisb. Prod. 146. 
Bastard toadflax. 
High chalky pastures ; perennial ; July. 
Foot woolly; herb stiff, bald; sbem 6 in. high; leaves 
facing one way, edge rough ; raceme many-flowered. 
Fam. XIII. 13. EL/EAGNEiE. Brown. Elceagnearum 
pars , Jussieu, Adamson. Flceagnoidece , 
Ventenat. Calyciflorum pars , Linnaeus. 
Perigonium free, not cohering to the ovary, 1 -leaved, 
tubular, 2 to 5-lobed; aestivation valvular; stamens inserted 
on the base of the lobes, one or two in each lobe ; ovary 
simple; ovule 1, upright; stigma simple; pericarp drupa- 
ceous, perisperm 0; cotyledons plano-convex, plumule 
minute; radicle below, straight. — Stem arborescent or 
shrubby ; leaves alternate, entire; flowers hermaphrodite or 
unisexual, axillary. 
31. HIPPOPHAE. Dioscorides. Sallow-thorn . 
Dioicous. — Male. Perigonium 2-parted; anthers 4, 
nearly sessile. — F em. Perigonium tubular, 2-cut; style 1; 
stigma oblique, exserted ; drupe globose; shell crustaceous, 
hard, shining. — Stem shrubby; branches spinous at the tip; 
leaves spread, spotted; flowers axillary, solitary, greenish. 
Hippophae littoralis. Shore sallow-thorn . 
Leaves linear, lanceolate ; above bald ; beneath whitish, 
scaly. 
