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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 T. 

 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 Tamarix, 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. 



