428 TAMAKIX GALI.ICA. 



ranean basin. On the other hand, from specimens collected 

 on the western coast of France from Bordeaux to the mouth 

 of the Seine, and in England, I find that the other form is 

 alone met with on the shores of the ocean. Which then is 

 the true T. Gallica of Linnaeus and his predecessors ? It is 

 not difficult to answer this question. Pena was the first bota- 

 nist who described the southern plant since the time of Pliny, 

 who speaks of it, after Dioscorides, under the name of T. syl- 

 vestriSf and we find it figured in the Adversaria Nova of Pena 

 and Lobel, under the name of Tamariscus Narbonensis. 

 Lobel copied this figure into his Icones. Clusius met with 

 this plant in his Spanish journey, and calls it Myrica sylves- 

 tris prima, to distinguish it from Myricaria Germanica, which 

 was his Myrica sylvestris altera. C. Bauhin finally admitted 

 it into his Pinax after 31. Germanica, as T. altera sive Gallica. 

 Linnaeus adopted this name, and cites for his plant Lobel 

 and C. Bauhin. It follows therefore of course that the 

 southern form must be that described by Linnseus as his 

 T. Gallica. 



The T. Gallica is an African species of great geographical 

 expansion, which descends in Senegal to the neighbourhood 

 of the equator, and whose northern limit in southern Europe 

 is about the forty-fifth degree, where, following the usual 

 laws which operate on vegetable growth, it is usually a shrub 

 limited to the milder climate of the coast. In Egypt, according 

 to Sieber and others, and in Fezzan, according to Mr Brown, 

 from the notes of Dr Oudney, it is known under the name of 

 Attn, and is the only shady tree.* 



The T. Anglica is a maritime plant, which seems nowhere 

 to exceed the height of a shrub. Its geographical limits are 



* The T. Orientalis, Forsk. {T. articulata,'^'-A\i\. T. ^gyptia arbor, 

 C. Bauh.) is said by Prosper Alpinus to be the Atle of the Egyptians, 

 written Atl by Forskohl and Atleh by Delile, whereas the T. Gallica is 

 called Tarfe by the Arabs, whence the name Taray of the Spaniards, 

 and Tarajal of the Canarians. The transposition, however, of the former 

 name to this plant is by no means surprising, as many examples of similar 

 chanjres are found in other countries. 



