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All the Tamarisks have small red or white flowers 

 arranged in racemes. The fruit is a small capsule with 

 woolly seeds easily transported by the wind. 



The anatomical structure of the leaf I have examined 



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Fig. 48. Tamarix hispida. Yeai-slioot with Qowering branches at the top, 

 vegetative at the base. August. 



