TAMARIX GALLICA. 429 



very narrow, like all those peculiar to the western European 

 zone, links perhaps of a chain interrupted somewhere. It is 

 found on the west coast of England as well as in France, and 

 was first published as T. Gallica in Withering's Arrangement, 

 and in Sjmons's Synopsis. 



The following are the specific characters of these two spe- 

 cies, and of T. Africana, 



T. Gallica, L?w??.; foliisglaberrimisbasilatiusculis, floribus 

 in prsefloratione globulosis, disco liypogyno 10-gono angnlis 

 obtusis brevibns, filamentis inter angulorum dentes insertis, 

 antheris rotundato-cordalis apice longius apiculatis, capsula 

 3-gona a basi ad apicem sensim attenuata, quasi pyramidata. 

 M\)^ixn uy^toc, Dioscorid. Lib. i. cap. 101. 

 Myrica sylvestris, Plin. Lib. 21. cap. 9. Matth. (ed. 

 Valgris. Fen. 1570) />, 125. 



Tamariscus Narbonensis, Penna et Lobel. Advers. [edit. 

 Antwerp.,) p. 447. LrMl Ic. p. 218. 



Myrica Sylvestris I. Chts. Rar. Stirp. Hisp. p. 105. 

 Tamarix altera folio tenuiore sive gallica. C. Bauh. Pin. 

 p. 485. 



Tamarix Gallica, Linn. Sp. pi. vol. i. p. 387. Sihth. Fl. 

 Gr<xc. tab. 291. Brown It. Oudn. Denh. et Ctapp. App. p. 

 28. 



Tamarix Canariensis, IVilld. Act. Ac. Ber. \8\2-V2. {edit. 

 1816,) p. 77. (D.C.) Link in Buck Beschr. Can. Ins. p. 155. 

 D.C. Prod. vol. iii. p. 96. Webb et Berth. Phyt. Can. Sect. i. 

 p. Ill, tab. 25. 



Tamarix Gallica arborea. Sieb. ex sice! 

 Tamarix Senegalensis. D.C. Prod. vol. iii. p. 96. Guill.et 

 Perrott. Fl. Seneg. vol. \. p. 309 ! Brvnner. Bot. Ergebn. in 

 Bot. Zeit. Beiblcett. 1840. 2. Band. p. 23. 



T. (Gallica) Narbonensis, Canariensis, Nilotica, arborea. 

 Lhrenh. Linnaa, 1827, p. 267. et seq. 



Frutex aut arbuscula 10— 30-pedalis, ramosissimus, ramis 

 rectis, virgatis, patentibus, cortice laivi purpurascente. Folia 

 lanceolata, aut ovato-lanceolata, basi latiora, acuta, glauces- 

 centia. Racemi erecto-patentes, cylindracei, graciles, dense 



