TAMARISK 305 



tt Leaves scaly or very narrow, acicular, linear, 

 &c. 



Leaves small, 2 5 mm. long, green, scale- 

 like^ and closely imbricated on the slender 

 shoots. 



Tamarix Gallica, L. Tamarisk. Small tree with 

 slender branches, and somewhat Cypress-like or Willow- 

 like habit. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, about 5 mm. 

 long, minute, triangular, auriculate, or broadly sessile 

 and keeled ; or subulate and densely imbricate. Rather 

 glaucous, dotted, long-acuminate, white and membra- 

 nous at the margins. Autumn leaves brown. Venation 

 simple. 



[The only similarly shaped and crowded leaves 

 (Ericoid) are found in Cypress, Thuja, the Ling, and 

 Heaths; all easily distinguished. See pp. 191 193.] 



Green foliage-leaves very narrow and stiff 

 linear, acicular, <&c. often accompanied 

 by very small and scale-like, brown leaves 

 elsewhere on the shoots. Plants not armed 

 with thorns or prickles, though the leaves 

 themselves may be hard-pointed and pun- 

 gent. Dying leaves yellow. Venation simple. 



[~~l Acicular leaves (needles] in fascicles o/[For/~7/~7 

 25 50 or more on the dwarf shoots ; see P- 313.] 

 surrounded below with scarious scale- 

 leaves, and springing from the axils of 

 similar scales on the long shoots. The 

 latter also bear scattered green leaves 

 here and there. Shoots resinous. 



Fascicles of needles stout and tubercular, 

 containing 25 50 or more foliage- 

 leaves, each 2 4 cm. long. 



Jf Leaves deciduous and bright green, 

 soft, 30 40 or more in the tuft. 



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