Trees; a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory . tional characters towardsS. Myrsinites and 8. Caprea and their allies.] (0) Leaves exstipidate. [For ** see * Shoots or leaves, or both, spinescent or P-299-] thorny. t Shoots leafy or leaf-like; some or all of themconverted into thorns or spines. © Leaves deciduous, oblong - lanceolate tolinear-lanceolate, silvery scaly or bronzedbeneath ; shoots thorny and covered withwaxy bloom or with bronze scales. Hippophae rhamnoides, L. Sea Buckthorn (Figs. 113and 114). Much branched thorny shrub, with bronzed orsilvery shoots an
Trees; a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory . tional characters towardsS. Myrsinites and 8. Caprea and their allies.] (0) Leaves exstipidate. [For ** see * Shoots or leaves, or both, spinescent or P-299-] thorny. t Shoots leafy or leaf-like; some or all of themconverted into thorns or spines. © Leaves deciduous, oblong - lanceolate tolinear-lanceolate, silvery scaly or bronzedbeneath ; shoots thorny and covered withwaxy bloom or with bronze scales. Hippophae rhamnoides, L. Sea Buckthorn (Figs. 113and 114). Much branched thorny shrub, with bronzed orsilvery shoots and leaves. Leaves 1—6 cm. (4—5 cm. x5—6 mm.), sub-sessile, obovate, narrow oblong-lanceolateto linear-oblong, or even linear; obtuse, sub-coriaceous,deep green and nearly glabrous or white dotted withscattered stellate hairs, silvery grey with scaly scurf be-neath, the midrib with rusty scales. Thorns axillary, orterminating the shoots. Petiole 1—3 mm., with rusty SEA BUCKTHORN 295 bronze scales as on the shoots. Autumn leaves obscurely Fig. 113. Sea Buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides, p. 294 (Sc). [The only other shrub with silvery and bronze scales,likely to be met with in gardens, is Eleagnus.] © © Leaves and shoots devoid of waxy bloom orsilvery and bronzed scales. 296 SEA BUCKTHORN : TEA TREE l~l Leaves foliaceous, thin, deciduous, moreor less lanceolate; not themselves pungentor spinose. § Leaves lanceolate, 5—10 cm. long:shoots slender and arching. Fig. 114. Sea Buckthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides, p. 294 (D). Lycium barbarum, L. Tea Tree. Hedge bush, withlong thin arched shoots. Leaves lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate to narrow-lanceolate or rhomboid-ovate, herba-ceous, soft and thin, attenuate both ends, sub-sessile,entire, green, 5—11 x 1—4 cm., with axillary slenderbranch thorns, or in some cases thornless. See p. 5—10 mm. Autumn leaves yellow. Venation obscurely pinnate-reticulate, the secondariesfairly strong, lea
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