TREES AND SHRUBS 



Class I Dicotyledons 



Division I Thalamiflorce 



Natural Ordeb . . . Tamariscinece 



Shrubs or small trees, with minute alternate, exstipulate leaves and regular 

 flowers ; Sepals and Petals 4-5 ; Stamens as many or double, inserted on 

 glandular disk, anthers versatile ; Ovary superior, syncarpous, 3-5 carpels ; 

 Fruit a capsule, 3-5 valved. 



Distinguished from Caryophyllacea? by the alternate leaves and the ovules 

 inserted on three basal placentae. 



The hardy shrubs of this order thrive well on sunny banks or in sheltered 

 shrubberies inland in the Midlands and South of England, and around the 

 sea-coasts, in ordinary or sandy soil. They are propagated by cuttings of 

 shoots 4-6 ins. long inserted in sandy soil in sheltered position under a hand- 

 light or in a cold frame, September or October. 



TAMARISK, Tamarix gallica, 



Sea-coasts, gardens, shrubberies ; will thrive under almost all conditions. 

 It makes a good hedge plant, its feathery sprays of delicate foliage forming 

 a pleasant screen. July — September. 



Flowers white or rosy-pink, \- £ in. diam., in a dense paniclcd-spike, 

 cylindrical ; bracts shorter than flowers ; Sepals 4-5, lanceolate, imbricate ; 

 Petals 4>-5, persistent ; Stamens as many or twice as many, usually 5, hypo- 

 gynous, anthers versatile, apiculate, red ; Disk hypogynous, 10-glandular, acutely 

 5-angled; Ova7-y superior, 1 -celled, styles 3-4 short, thick, stigmas nearly 

 sessile ; Fruit a capsule, trigonous, 3-valved ; seeds several, crowned with 

 tuft of cottony hairs. 



Leaves alternate, exstipulate, those on branchlets minute, closely imbricate, 

 triangular, auricled, keeled; those on branches \ in. long, subulate, acuminate, 

 glaucous, dotted, greyish-green, margins white and membranous. Autumn 

 leaves brown. 



A sub-evergreen shrub, or small tree, 5-10 ft. ; Branches slender, erect, or 



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