1 12 PENTANDRIA-TRIGYNIA. Conimola. 



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T. gallica. Linn. Sp. PL 386. mihlv.l.]49S. H. Br. 338. Engl. 



Bot.v.\9.t.\3l8. Fl.Grac.v.3. 85.1.291. Rees's Oj clop. v. 35. 



Tr. of Linn. Sac. v. 3. 333. Ehrh. PL Off. 364. 

 T. floi-ibus pentandris. Mill. Ic. 1 75. t. 262./. 1. 

 T. narboiiensis. Dalech. Hist. 180./. 



T. major, sive arborea, narbonensis. Bauh. Hist. v.]. p. 2. 350./. 

 Tamariscus narbonensis. Tourn.Jnst.66\. Ger. Em.\378.f. Lob. 



Ic. V.2. 218./. 

 Myrica. Matth. Valgr. v. 1. 13G./. Camer. Epit. 74./. 1. 

 M. sylvestris prima. Clus. Hist. v. ]. 40. f. 



On rocks and cliffs on the south coast of England. 



Plentiful on banks about the Lizard Point, and on St. Michael's 

 Mount, Cornwall. D. Gilbert, Esq. M.P. Near Hurst castle, 

 Hants. Dr. Maton. Near Hastings. Bishop of Carlisle and Mr. 

 Menzies. 



Shrub. July. 



Stem slender, with abundance of long, drooping, red, shining 

 branches. Leaves minute, scattered or imbricated, deciduous, 

 lanceolate, acute, smooth, with a loose spur at the base. Clusters 

 lateral and terminal, stalked, dense, cylindrical, of numerous, 

 nearly sessile^ reddish or white, bracteated flowers, without 

 scent. 



Commonly planted in English gardens and shrubberies, long before 

 Archbishop Grindall imported this species or T. germanicu, it is 

 not clear which, to cure indurations of the spleen. See Camden's 

 Life of Queen Elizabeth. Sheep feed greedily on the French 

 Tamarisk, for the sake of its salt taste. 



177. CORRIGIOLA. Strapwort. 



Linn. Gen.\A9. Juss.3\3. Fl. Br. 338. Lam. t. 213. Gartn.t.75. 

 Polygonifolia. Dill. Giss. append. 95. t. 3. 



Nat. Ord. Holeracece. Linn. 12. Portulacecc. Juss. 86. 



Col. inferior, of 5 obovate, concave, spreading, permanent 

 leaves, as large as the corolla. Pet. 5, obovate, spreading, 

 entire, not bigger than the calyx-leaves. Filam. awl- 

 shaped, small, not half so long as the petals, alternate 

 with them, inserted into the calyx. Anth. of 2 roundish 

 lobes. Germ, superior, ovate, with 3 slight angles. Styles 3, 

 short, spreading. Stigmas obtuse. Seed 1, large, naked, 

 roundish with 3 angles, wrinkled, covered by the closed 

 calyx. 



Herbaceous, annual, smooth, with scattered, simple, undi- 

 vided leaves, and interrupted clusters of white floxvers. 

 Only 1 species. 



