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4. T. parviflorum Nutt. Resembling the last, but smaller, the leaves narrower, 
flowers smaller and paler, and stamens only 5.—In rocky places throughout southern 
Texas, but more abundant in the extreme west, 
TAMARISCINER. (‘TAMARIsc FAMILY.) 
A small Old World family of trees and shrubs, with alternate small 
(sometimes scale-like) leaves, 3 to 5 distinet Styles, free ovary, and 
comose or long-hairy seeds. 
1. Fouquiera. Petals united into a tube: seeds surrounded by a dense fringe of 
long white hairs or a membranous wing: flowers showy, in terminal spikes or 
panicles, 
2. Tamarix. Petals free (or nearly so): seeds comose at apex: flowers racemose 
or spicate. 
1. FOUQUIERA HBK. (CANDLEWOOD. ) 
Smooth shrubs or small trees, with soft fragile wood, alternately 
spinose-tubercled branches with Single or fascicled thick entire leaves 
in the axils, and brilliant erimson flowers. 
1. PF. splendens Engelm, Branching near the base and sending up simple slender 
spiny stems 3 to 8m. or more high, leafy only near the suminit, strongly grooved and 
ridged by the decurrent bases of the spines: leaves spatulate to obovate, 12 to 24 
mm.long: flowers on short pedicels in narrow nearly simple racemes 5 to 15 cm. 
long.—Common on rocky mesas from the Colorado to the Pecos and westward. “A 
most remarkable looking plant, usually standing out on open sun-exposed slopes, 
with its strict striated almost leafless stems crowned by a mass of beautiful scarlet 
flowers” (Rothrock). Known as “Jacob’s staff” or ‘“ ocotillo.” 
2. TAMARIX L. (TAMARISC. ) 
Shrubs with slender branches covered with small green sceale-like 
leaves, and smail flowers in terminal Spikes or racemes. 
1. T. Gallica L. A beautiful shrub 9 to 18 dm. high, with slender erect or slightly 
pendulous branches, numerous scale-like pointed leaves scarcely 2 mm. long, and 
very small pink or white flowers crowded in spikes, forming frequently branching 
terminal panicles, the petals persisting till the fruit ripens.—A common European 
Mediterranean shrub, which seems to have escaped from cultivation in many places 
in Texas. 
ELATINES. 
Low annuals, with membranous Stipules between the opposite leaves, 
regular and symmetrical axillary flowers, distinct styles with capitate 
stigmas, and a 2 to 5-celled many-seeded pod. 
1. BERGIA L. 
Branching and often pubescent, nearly erect, with entire or serrate 
leaves, fascicled or solitary 5-merous flowers, and a globose capsule. 
1. B. Texana Seubert. Leaves oblanceolate, acute, serrulate, 12 to 36 mm. long, 
attenuate to a short petiole: flowers tascicled, shortly pediceled : sepals keeled, about 
3 mm. long, exceeding the petals and stamens: seeds smooth and shining.—Southern 
and western Texas, 
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