9338 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
green shrub, with numerous cylin- 
drical wand-like branches, articu- 
lated, and furnished at each arti- 
culation with two small linear 
leaves. Soutk of France and 
1747. #. distachya. 
Spain, in sandy soils on the sea- 
shore. Height 3ft. to 4ft. In- 
troduced in 1750. Flowers 
whitish ; June and July. Berries red ; ripe in August. 
As far as we have observed, justice has never been done to this, or any 
other species of E’phedra, in British gardens. The fruit becomes succulent, 
like that of the mulberry, with a slightly acid and yet sugary and agreeable 
taste, and might be cultivated for the dessert. 
1748. E, distachya. 
#. 2. E. monosta’cuya L. The one-spiked Ephedra, or Small shrubby 
? Horsetail. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 1472, ; Ait. Hort. Kew., 3. p. 116.; N. Du Ham.,, 3. 
187 
p. 18: 
Synonymes. E. polygondides Pall. Ross.; Ephédre mineure, Ephédre de 
Siberie, Fr. 
The Sezes. There are male plants at Messrs. Loddiges’s. 
Eparauings: Dend. Brit., t. 142.3 and our sigs. 1749. and 1750. of the male 
plant. 
Spec. Char., &c. Peduncles many. Catkins 
solitary. (Lin.) An evergreen shrub, much 
smaller, and hardier than E. distachya. Si- 
beria, near salt springs, and in saline wastes; | 
and, according to Pallas, common in the lj 
f southern parts of Russia, from the Don and ]} 
p Ze the Volga to the Leira; Persia and India. 
Lye Height 1 ft. to 2ft. Introduced in 1772. 
lie Fo Fi hitish ; J July. Berri 
GP owers whitish ; June to July. Berries red ; 1750. 
E. monostachya. ripe in August and September. B, monostachya. 
The Kergisi use the ashes of the wood of the EZ’phedra for snuff. 
1749. 
Orpen LXXVI. TAXA‘CE/E. 
Orv CuAR. Floral buds consisting of numerous imbricate scales, Flowers 
dicecious.—Male flowers disposed in catkins, each consisting of a scale, and 
a 2- or many-celled anther, the cells dehiscing longitudinally—Female 
flowers solitary, naked or bracteate. Nut, or seed, solitary, surrounded 
at its base by a disk, which at length becomes fleshy, and conceals the 
greater portion or the whole of the nut, and forms with it what may be 
called a succulent drupe, except in Torréya, where the nut is not surrounded 
by any disk, but by dry scarcely increasing scales. The nut or seed is 
