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TAMARICACEAE. 



capsular. Seeds numerous; endosperm wanting. [Latin name.] 

 species, of the Old World, the following typical. 



About 60 



1. Tamarix gallica L. TAMARISK. 

 (Fig. 268.) A shrub or a small tree, with 

 slender spreading branches, the branchlets 

 very numerous, approximate or clustered, 

 completely clothed with the imbricated 

 scale-like acute leaves which are I" long or 

 less; spikes numerous, in conspicuous 

 panicles; sepals triangular, about \" long; 

 petals' white or pinkish; capsule pyramidal, 

 about 1" long. 



Commonly planted as a screen along 

 coastal roads and elsewhere and completely 

 naturalized. Known locally as Spruce. 



The related family Cistaceae (ROCK- 

 ROSE FAMILY), was represented in Ber- 

 muda by three species of Cistus (C. lauri- 

 folius L., C. salvifolius L. and C. monspe- 

 liensis L.), recorded by Lefroy as intro- 

 duced, presumably at Mt. Langton, in 1874, 

 and remaining alive until 1877, but not ap- 

 pearing to flourish, and not to be seen 

 there now. 



Family 2. THEACEAE DC. 



TEA FAMILY. 



Trees or shrubs with alternate or rarely opposite mainly estipulate 

 leaves, and large regular mostly perfect flowers. Sepals 5 (rarely 47), 

 imbricated. Calyx often 2-bracted at the base. Petals 5 (rarely 4-9), 

 hypogynous, imbricated, crenulate. Stamens , numerous, hypogynous, 

 more or less united at their bases. Ovary sessile, 2-several-eelled ; ovules 

 2 or more in each cavity. Fruit a 3-5-celled generally woody capsule. 

 Endosperm little or none; embryo large, with conduplicate cotyledons. 

 About 16 genera and 160 species, natives of tropical and warm regions. 



Camellia japonica L., CAMELLIA, of Japan and China, is occasionally 

 planted for ornament, but does not succeed very well. Usually a shrub, it may, 

 under favorable conditions-, develop into a tree up to 40 high; the evergreen 

 thick ovate-elliptic, serrate leaves are 2'-4' long, shining dark green on the 

 upper side, and the white or red flowers, often double, are mostly solitary at 

 the ends of twigs or in the axils, sometimes up to 5' broad, the petals rounded. 



Family 3. HYPERICACEAE Lindl. 

 ST. JOHN'S-WORT FAMILY. 



Herbs or shrubby plants. Leaves opposite or rarely whorled, without 

 stipules, pellucid-punctate, entire or nearly so. Flowers perfect, regular 

 or nearly so, in cymes. Calyx of 4 or 5 herbaceous sepals. Corolla of 4 or 

 5 yellow or flesh-colored petals. Stamens few or many, commonly col- 

 lected in 3 or 5 groups, sometimes accompanied by interposed glands. Fila- 



