PENTANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Tamarix. Ill 



Staphylodendron. Rail. Stjn. 468. Matth.Falgr. v. I. 249./. Ga- 

 rner. Epit. 171. f. Bauh. Hist. v. I. 274./. Duham. Arb. v. 2, 

 t.77. Dalech. Hist. 102./. 



Nux vesicaria. Ger.Em.l437.f. Dod. Pempt. 818. f. 



In hedges and thickets, but rare. 



About PontetVact, Yorkshire, scarcely in sufficient plenty to be 

 deemed certainly wild. Ray. About Ashford, Kent. ParArinwH. 

 Truly indigenous in Yorkshire. Mr. Hailstone. 



Shrub. June. 



A smooth, branching shrub, with foliage resembling some kind of 

 Ash, and throwing up many suckers. Leaves deciduous, oppo- 

 site, pinnate ; leaflets 2 pair, with an odd one, uniform, ovate, 

 acute, finely serrated. Stipulas general and partial, awl-shap- 

 ed, membranous, deciduous, 2 to each pair of leaflets. Clusters 

 terminating the young branches, drooping, interrupted, and 

 partly compound, many-flowered. Bracteas linear, membranous, 

 coloured, deciduous. Fl. of a pale greenish yellow, bell-shaped, 

 pendulous, inodorous. Caps, mucli larger, green, light and in- 

 flated. Seeds pale brown, appearing as if varnished. 



Haller says children eat the kernels j but according to Gcrarde, 

 their first sweetness is succeeded by a nauseous taste, and an 

 emetic eftect. Singularity rather than beauty procures this plant 

 a place in gardens. 



176. TAMARIX. Tamarisk. 



Unn.Gen.\48. Jmss.313. K.Br. 338. Lam. t. 213-. GcErtn.t.Gl. 

 Tamariscus, Tourn. List. 66 1 . 



Nat. Oi'd. Succnlcjitts. Linn. 13. Portulacecc. Juss. 86. 



Col. inferior, of 1 leaf, in 5 deep, obtuse, erect, permanent 

 segments, half the length of the corolla. Pet. 5, obovate, 

 obtuse, concave, spreading. Filam. 5, capillary, inserted 

 into the calyx, opposite to its segments ; sometimes with 

 5 intermediate ones. A>it/i. incumbent, roundish. Geimen 

 superior, ovate, pointed. Siijle none. Stigmas 3, revolute, 

 obtuse, downy. Caps, ovate-oblong, pointed, triangular, 

 longer than the calyx, of 1 cell, and 3 valves. Seeds nu- 

 merous, minute, with a stalked, feathery crown. 



Slender, pliant, branching shrubs, with minute, fleshy, sessile 

 leaves. Fl. reddish, hi dense, lateral, as well as terminal, 

 clustei's. 



1. T. gallica. French Tamarisk. 



Stamens five. Lateral clusters numerous. Leaves lanceo- 

 late, spurred, acute. Branches smooth. 



