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and lower egypt. 5
history cannot be questioned*, attains the height
and bigness of an oak. Its leaves are alternate,
long, very narrow, and of a pale green. I shall
not enlarge upon its description, as I have given
an engraving from a drawing of the trunk and
one of the branches of this tree. (See PI. IX.
fig. 2.) It is to be regretted, that there were
neither flowers nor fruit upon the specimen from
which this drawing was taken. This tree is usually
loaded with galls, adhering to the branches.
These galls, I observed, before they were dried
up, were filled with a liquor of a beautiful poppy
red. Probably, therefore, they may be of con-
eiderable use in the arts; for they are very nume-
rous, and the trees that bear them, grow all over
Egypt, both Upper and Lower. This observation
I think it important not to omit, as I have read,
in a manuscript catalogue of plants, in possession
of one of M. Tott's companions, " that the atle
fi is a species of tamarisk, growing in Upper
<( Egypt, near Sahil." Now there is scarcely a
village throughout Lower Egypt, which has not
several alia among the trees that surround it.
The wood of this tree is employed for several
purposes, and among others for making charcoal.
" Differt a tamar. gallica, cujus rami squamati, squamis alterms,
sessilibus lanceolatis ; ramuli breves, imbricali; foliis lanceolatis,
(oifcrjis. Forskal, loco supra citato.
b 7 There
history cannot be questioned*, attains the height
and bigness of an oak. Its leaves are alternate,
long, very narrow, and of a pale green. I shall
not enlarge upon its description, as I have given
an engraving from a drawing of the trunk and
one of the branches of this tree. (See PI. IX.
fig. 2.) It is to be regretted, that there were
neither flowers nor fruit upon the specimen from
which this drawing was taken. This tree is usually
loaded with galls, adhering to the branches.
These galls, I observed, before they were dried
up, were filled with a liquor of a beautiful poppy
red. Probably, therefore, they may be of con-
eiderable use in the arts; for they are very nume-
rous, and the trees that bear them, grow all over
Egypt, both Upper and Lower. This observation
I think it important not to omit, as I have read,
in a manuscript catalogue of plants, in possession
of one of M. Tott's companions, " that the atle
fi is a species of tamarisk, growing in Upper
<( Egypt, near Sahil." Now there is scarcely a
village throughout Lower Egypt, which has not
several alia among the trees that surround it.
The wood of this tree is employed for several
purposes, and among others for making charcoal.
" Differt a tamar. gallica, cujus rami squamati, squamis alterms,
sessilibus lanceolatis ; ramuli breves, imbricali; foliis lanceolatis,
(oifcrjis. Forskal, loco supra citato.
b 7 There