PENTxVNDRIA— TRIGYNI A. Tamai ix. 1 1 1 



Staph vlodendron. Rali SynAGS. Mai tli. Falgr. v. 1.249. f. Ca- 

 mer. Epit. \7\.f. Buuh. Hist. v. 1. 274./. Duham. Arb. v. 2. 

 t.77. Dalech. Hist. 102./. 



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



In hedges and thickets, but rare. 



About PontetVact, Yorkshire, scarcely in sufficient plenty to be 

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

 Truly in(hgenous in Yorkshire. Mr. Hailstone. 



Shrub. June. 



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

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

 site, pinnate j Icujiets 2 ])air, with an odd one, uniform, ovate, 

 acute, finely serrated. Slipulas general and partial, awl-shap- 

 ed, membranous, deciduous, 2 to each pair of leaflets. Clusters 

 terminating the young branches, drooping, interrupted, and 

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

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

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

 flated. Seeds pale brown, appearing as if varnished, 



Haller says children eat the kernels j but according to Gcrarde, 

 their first sweetness is succeeded by a nauseous taste, and ;in 

 emetic effect. Singularity rather than beauty procures this plant 

 a place in gardens. 



170. TAMARIX. Tamarisk. 



Linn. Gen. 148. Juss.^U. Fl. Br. 338. Lam. t. 213. Gcertn. t. 61. 

 Tamariscus. Tourn. List. 60\. 



Nat. Ord. Succulcuice. Liiiii. 13. Porhdacea;. Juss. S6. 



Cal. inierior, of 1 leaf, in 5 deep, obtuse, erect, j^ernianent 

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

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

 into the calyx, opposite to its segments; somelimes with 

 5 intermediate ones. Anlh. incumbent, roundish. Gomcn 

 superior, ovale, })oijited. Shjlc none. S//tj;ma.s 3, revolute, 

 obtuse, downy. C(/j)s. ovate-oblong, pointed, triangular, 

 longer than the calyx, of 1 cell, and 3 valves. Scn/s nu- 

 merous, minute, with a stalked, featliery crown. 



Slender, pliant, branching .^Z/rz/i^.S with minute, flesliv, sessile 

 /eaves. Fl. reddish, in dense, lateral, as well as terminal, 

 ciNs/e}s. 



1 . T. ^al/irft. French Tamarisk. 



Stamens five. Lateral clusters numerous. Leaves lanceo- 

 late, spurrril, acute. Dranehes smooth. 



