(A) "Tournefort relates, that an essential salt may be obtained from tamarinds, by dissolving the pulp in water, and setting the filtered solution, with some oil upon the surface, in a cellar for several months; that the salt is of a fourth taste, and difficultly dissoluble in water; and that a like salt is sometimes found also naturally concreted on the branches of the tree. The salt, as Beaumé observes, may be obtained more expeditiously, by clarifying the decoction of the tamarind."

the tamarisk, in botany: A genus of plants belonging to the clas of pentandra, and order of tricygynia; and in the natural system ranging under the 13th order, Succulents. The calyx is quinquepartite; the petals are five; the capsule is unilocular and trivalvular, and the seeds pappous. There are only two species known; the gallica or French tamarisk, and the germanica or German tamarisk.