Note 2428 — BOOK XVI. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FOREST TREES.
John Bostock translation
See B. xiii. c. 37. The tamarisk of the moderns is not an evergreen, which has caused writers to doubt if it is identical with the tamariscus of the ancients, and to be disposed to look for it among the larger ericæ or heaths. The leaves of the larch fall every year; those of the other evergreens mostly every two or three years.