HYPERICINEi£ 



slightly pendulous at extremities ; Branehlets very slender, feathery, glabrous, 

 red ; Buds minute, curved, scales few, red-brown ; Wood greenish-white when 

 young, afterwards rose or reddish ; not valuable. 



Native of Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts ; planted in East and South 

 of England. 



PALLAS'S TAMARISK, Tamarix Pallasii. 



Gardens, shrubberies. August — October. 



Flowers pinkish-white, forming a panicle of dense racemes ; Calyx urceo- 

 late, 5-partite, segments linear, green ; Petals 5, free ; Stamens 5, apiculate, 

 filaments twice length of petals ; Ovary superior, style thick, stigmas 2 ; 

 Fruit a capsule. 



Leaves alternate, subulate, very acute, decurrent. 



A sub-evergreen shrub, 8-10 ft. ; Branches elongated, erect ; Branehlets 

 numerous, very slender ; Bark reddish-fuscous. 



Native of Eastern Europe and Asia (Afghanistan) ; introduced from 

 Odessa, 1891. Syn. T. odessana. 



Class I Dicotyledons 



Division I Thalamiflorce 



Natural Order . . HypericineoB 



Herbs, shrubs, or rarely trees, with opposite or rarely whorled, exstipulate, 

 often glandular leaves, and regular flowers, usually yellow or white, mostly 

 panicled or in dichotomous cymes ; Sepals 5, rarely i, imbricate, with 

 glandular dots ; Petals 5, rarely 4, hypogynous, unequal-sided, dotted, im- 

 bricate, often twisted ; Stamens indefinite, hypogynous, filaments united at 

 base into 3 or 5 bundles ; Ovary 3-5-celled, styles 3-5 ; Fruit a capsule 

 or berry. 



Distinguished from all other Orders by the polyadelphous stamens and 



unequal-sided, dotted petals. 



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