Elaeagnaceae
A small order of trees or shrubs, more or less covered with minute silvery or brown scurfy scales. Flowers white or yellow, regular, one or two sexual, axillary, fascicled or cymose. Leaves alternate or opposite, exstipulate, entire. The order is represented in Britain by Hippophae rhamnoides, the Sea Buckthorn, a spiny shrub, thriving well near the sea. There are three genera, Eloeagnus, Hippophae and Shepherdia, and about twenty species.