"...said Conan, 'I know him of old. He's an Hyrkanian, a spy of Yezdigerd's. If I catch him I'll hang his hide to a tamarisk.'"

-The People of the Black Circle

A Tamarisk is a "salt cedar," a spare type of evergreen which is highly tolerant of sodium and which grows in 50-60 varieties in the more arid regions of Eurasia and Africa.

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