PI. ex, mon. 13. ELiEAGNEiE. 31. Hippophae. 265 
Ithamnoides fructifera, foliis salicis, baccis leviter flavescentibus, Ruii 
Syn. 445. 
Rhamnus secundus Clusii, Ger.em. 1334,2. 
Rhamnus primus Dioscoridis L< belio, sive littoralis, Park. 1006. 
Hippophae Rhamnoides, Lin. S. P. 1452. 
Hippophae littoralis, Salisb. Prod. 71. 
Sea buckthorn. 
Sea-shore; arborescent; May. 
Small tree; younger branches reddish ; leaves dark green 
above, silvery beneath ; petioles short ; berry mucronulate, 
reddish yellow, one-spotted. 
Fain. XIV. 14. THYMELEiE. 
Per igonium free, tubular, coloured; limb 4 rarely 5-cut; 
aestivation imbricate; stamens inserted in the mouth of the 
tube, definite, 8 rarely 2 or 4, if there is less or only as 
many as the lobes, opposite; but if twice as many, in two 
series, the upper series opposite to the lobes, the lower 
alternating; barren filaments few; anthers 2-celled; cells 
opening lengthways in the middle; ovary simple, ovule 1, 
pendulous, placentarium lateral, subapicular; style 1; stigma 
not cut ; pericarp nutlike or drupaceous ; perisperm 0, 
or very thin, fleshy; corculum straight, inverse; radicle 
short, above; cotyledons plano-convex; plumula incon- 
spicuous. — Stem shrubby; lark very tough; leaves alter- 
nate or opposite, not in the least cut; stipule 0 ; flowers 
capitate, or spiked ; terminal or axillary, solitary. 
32. DAPHNE. Dioscorides. Daphne. 
Perigonium funnelshape, withering; limb 4-cut; stamens 8, 
hidden; style terminal, very short ; stigma capitate; drupe 
berrylike; putamen crustaceous, shining.- — Stem shrubby, 
naked at bottom; leaves Spread, or rarely opposite ; flowers 
bracteated, axillary or terminal, often glomerate. 
A. Perigonium separable into 2 lamina ; flowers lateral , 
coloured; leaves annual . Mezereon. 
1. Daphne florida. Flowering daphne. 
Flowers lateral, sessile, in threes; leaves lanceolate, bald, 
appearing after the flowers, annual. 
Chamaeh a Germanica, sive Mezereon, Ger. etn. 1402. 
Daphne Mezereum, Lin. S. P. 509. 
Thymaelea Mezereum, Gcertn. Sem.et Fr. 1, 188, 
Daphne florida, Salisb. Prod. 2 81. 
German olive-spurge. 
Woods; shrubby; March and April, 
