PENTANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Tamarix. Ill 



Staphylodendron. Rail Syn. 468. Matth. Valgr.v. \. 249./. Ga- 

 mer. Epit. 171./. Bauh. Hist. v. 1 . 274./. Duham. Arb. v. 2. 

 t.77. Dalech.Hist. 102. f. 



Nux vesicaria. Ger. Em. 1437./ Dod. Pempt. 818./ 



In hedges and thickets, but rare. 



About Pontefract, Yorkshire, scarcely in sufficient plenty to be 

 deemed certainly wild. Ratj. About Ashford, Kent. Parkinson, 

 Truly indigenous in Yorkshire. Mr. Hailstone. 



Shrub. June. 



A smooth, branching shrub, with foliage resembling some kind of 

 Ash, and throwing up many suckers. Leaves deciduous, oppo- 

 site, pinnate ; leaflets 2 pair, with an odd one, uniform, ovate, 

 acute, finely serrated. Stipulas general and partial, awl-shaped, 

 membranous, deciduous, 2 to each pair of leaflets, Glusters ter- 

 minating the young branches, drooping, inteiTupted, and partly 

 compound, many-flowered. Bracteas linear, membranous, co- 

 loured, deciduous. Fl. of a pale greenish yellow, bell-shaped, 

 pendulous, inodorous. Gaps, much larger, green, light and in- 

 flated. Seeds pale brown, appearing as if varnished. 



Haller says children eat the kernels ; but according to Gerarde, 

 their first sweetness is succeeded by a nauseous taste, and an 

 emetic efl^ect. Singularity rather than beauty procures this plant 

 a place in gardens. 



176. TAMARIX. Tamarisk. 



Linn. Gen. \4S. Jmss.313. P7.^r.338. Lam. t.2\Z. Gcertn.t.G]. 

 Tamariscus. Tourn. List. 661. 



Nat. Ord. Succidentcc. Linn. 13. Portulacece. Juss. 86. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, in 5 deep, obtuse, erect, permanent 

 segments, half the length of the corolla. Pet. 5, obovate, 

 obtuse, concave, spreading. Filam. 5, capillary, inserted 

 into the calyx, opposite to its segments; sometimes with 

 5 intermediate ones. Anth. incumbent, roundish. Germen 

 superior, ovate, pointed. Style none. Stigmas 3, revolute, 

 obtuse, downy. Caps, ovate-oblong, pointed, triangular, 

 longer than the calyx, of 1 cell, and 3 valves. Seeds nu- 

 merous, minute, with a stalked, feathery crown. 



Slender, pliant, branching shrubs, with minute, fleshy, ses- 

 sile leaves. Fl. reddish, in dense, lateral, as well as ter- 

 minal clusters. 



1. T. galiica. French Tamarisk. 



Stamens five. Lateral clusters numerous. Leaves lanceo- 

 late, spurred, acute. Branches smooth. 



