Tamarix gracilis, Willd Tamarix hispida, Willd. Myricaria Desv.

13. T. gracilis Willd View in CoL ., op. cit. 81 (1816).

Glabrous, bushy tree with brown or blackish bark. Leaves 1-4 mm, much longer than wide. Racemes 20-60 x 6-7 mm, usually aestival, solitary or in lax panicles. Bracts spathulate to narrowly trullate, acute, usually shorter than pedicels. Pedicel longer than calyx. Flowers 4- to 5-merous, the 4-merous sometimes with 1 antepetalous stamen. Sepals 1 mm, ovate, obtuse, subentire to irregularly denticulate. Petals 1 -25-2- 5 mm, elliptical to obovate, caducous. Filaments of antesepalous stamens inserted in shallow sinuses between the more or less emarginate lobes of the disc. Sand-dunes, river-banks and salt-marshes. From S.E. Ukraine to W. Kazakhstan. Rs (W, E). (W. & C. Asia.} European plants are referable to var. angustifolia (Ledeb.)

Baum ( T. angustifolia Ledeb. ).

14. T. hispida Willd. View in CoL , op. cit. 77 (1816).

Shrub or small tree with reddish-brown bark, usually densely hispid-pubescent, but sometimes glabrous except for papillose inflorescence-axis. Leaves 1-2-5 mm, acute, cordate-auriculate at base. Racemes 15—70(— 150) x 3-5 mm, usually aestival, aggregated in dense panicles. Bracts narrowly triangular, acuminate, longer than pedicels. Pedicel shorter than calyx. Flowers 5-merous, without antepetalous stamens. Sepals 1 mm, trullate-ovate, strongly denticulate, especially in distal half, the outer more or less keeled. Petals 2 mm, obovate to elliptical, caducous. Filaments confluent with the lobes of the disc. Saline sands. W. Kazakhstan. Rs (E). (Dry regions of Asia.}

3. Myricaria Desv. 1

Like Tamarix but flowers 5-merous, without disc; stamens united in a short tube round the ovary by the expanded filament-bases; anthers introrse; stigma sessile on the beak of the acuminate ovary; tuft of hairs on seed stipitate.

1. M. germanica (L.) Desv. View in CoL , Ann. Sci. Nat. 4: 349 (1825).

Glabrous shrub 60-250 cm, with erect branches. Leaves 2-5 mm, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, sessile, somewhat glaucous, closely imbricate on young shoots. Racemes (2-)4-12(-25) x 1 cm, sometimes branched at the base, usually terminal on the main branches, but sometimes terminating short lateral twigs, or sessile on the woody shoots of the previous year. Bracts 5-7(-10) mm, broadly ovate to narrowly oblong, obtuse, acute or longacuminate, with broad, scarious margin below. Sepals c. 4 mm, lanceolate; petals 5-6 mm, pink; stamens 10. Capsule 8-11 mm, narrowly pyramidal. 2n = 24. River-gravels and other open habitats. Mainly in C. Europe and Fennoscandia, but extending to the Pyrenees and E. Spain, C. Italy and S. Ukraine, with an outlyingstation on the Lower Volga.?A1 Au Cz Fe Ga Ge He Hs Hu It Ju No Po Rm Rs (W, K, E) Su.

Var. bracteosa Franchet ( M. alopecuroides Schrenk ), which has long-acuminate bracts with patent apex, occurs sporadically throughout the range of the species. M. squamosa Desv. , Ann. Sci. Nat. 4: 350 (1825), appears simply to designate plants with late-developing, sessile, lateral racemes, which usually have narrow, obtuse bracts and persistent bud-scales at the base.