PENTANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Corrigiola. 403 
near Pontefract, Yorkshire. Ray. (Woods in the farther part of that 
county. Merrett. E.) About Ashford, Kent. Parkinson. S. June.* * * § 
TAM'ARIX.f Cal. with five divisions: Petals five : Caps . 
one-celled, three-valved: ( Seeds with a stipitate feathery 
crown. E.) 
T. Gai/lica. Flowers with five stamens: branches scaly; scales ses¬ 
sile, alternate. 
(E. Bot. 1318. E.)— Mill. Ic. 262. 1— Blackw. 331. 2—Lob. Adv. 447. and 
Ic. 218, Narbonens: — Kniph. 2. 
(Branches slender, drooping-, red, shining. Leaves small, tiled, sharp- 
pointed, rather fleshy, smooth, with a loose spur at the base. FI. Brit. 
E.) Flowers in long slender spikes, white, with a rosy tinge. 
(French Tamarisk. On the cliffs of the southern and western coasts of 
England. In great plenty on St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, and every 
where about the Lizard, though chiefly on the banks of earth called 
hedges; first communicated to me by Mr. Giddy. On the beach near 
Hurst Castle. Dr. Pulteney. (On the cliff 1 to the east of Hastings. Rev. 
Dr. Goodenough. By Landguard Fort. Sir T. G. Cullum. Forms the 
ornament of Sandgate, Kent; flowering thrice within the year. Mr. 
Gerard E. Smith. On the Den at Teignmouth, and some very luxuriant 
specimens on the opposite shore at Shaldon. E.) S. July.$ 
CORRIGrOLA.§ Cal. five-leaved, border membranous, white : 
Petals five : Nut small, globose, but three-sided. 
C. littora'lis. Leaves oblong: flowers in a terminal cluster. 
(E. Bot. 668. E.)— FI. Dan. 334— J. B. iff. 379. 2—H. Ox. v. 29. 1. 
(Root slender. Stems several inches long, numerous, spreading on the 
ground, little divided, smooth, leafy, flowering chiefly at the extremities. 
Leaves alternate, strap-spear-shaped, blunt, very entire, rather fleshy, 
smooth, glaucous, attenuated at the base. Seed black. FI. Brit. E.) 
Flowers numerous, pearly, sometimes lateral. Calyx very like the blos- 
* (Cultivated in nurseries as a curious, if not ornamental shrub. The seed-vessel, from 
whence it derives its name, affords a fine example of the inflated capsule. The kernels are 
said to prove emetic. The nuts being smooth and hard, are sometimes appropriated by 
our Romish brethren to their chaplets of beads or rosaries, a pagan invention borrowed from 
the Mahometans by Peter the Hermit. E.) 
t (Possibly derived from a Hebrew word, descriptive of its supposed abstersive quali¬ 
ties. E.) 
X (Sheep are fond of browsing on the branches of this plant, probably induced by the 
saline taste. Smith. Being little affected by the sea spray it forms a useful shelter in 
situations too exposed for other trees ; and is in itself singularly elegant. 
- <£ On yon rough crag, 
Where the wild Tamarisk whistles to the breeze.” 
In ancient usage Tamarisk was by association connected with crime; it beipg customary 
with the Romans to wreathe the heads of its flexile and blushing branches around offenders. 
The Tartars and Russians make whip handles of the wood. It is said to be used for 
besoms where abundant. 
§ (Diminutive of corrigia , a leather thong; to which the leaves may be imagined to 
bear a slight resemblance. E.) 
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