238 TAMARICACEAE. 
TAMARIX. Tamarisk. 
(Family Tamaricaceae). 
Shrubs or small trees: decidu- 
ous through the fall of their very 
slender branched foliar shoots. 
Twigs slender, elongated, 
rounded: pith small, rounded, 
continuous, not central. Buds 
small, sessile, rounded, compressed 
against the twig, solitary or 
quickly becoming concentrically 
multiple, with about 3 exposed 
scales. Leaf-scars lacking. Leaves 
alternate, scale-like with persist- 
ent dilated base, without eviaent 
bundle-traces or stipules. 
Winter-character references to 7’. 
gallica:—Schaffner & Tyler, Ohio 
Naturalist, 1:31; Schneider, f. 
118. 
1. Quite glabrous. 2. 
Leaf-scales puberulent. 
T. hispida. 
2. Twigs and buds green or pinkish and glaucescent. 
T. odessana. 
Twigs and buds red-brown, not glaucous. (1). T. gallica. 
MYRICARIA. 
(Family Tamaricaceae). 
Winter-characters of Tamariz, except that the pith is 
larger and more central. The single species is M. germanica, 
the winter-characters of which are indicated by Fant, 27; and 
Schneider, f. 119. 
