408 LORANTHACE, I. Viscum. 
Berries oval-oblong; flowers 3-cleft. Perhaps the present 
variety is the female plant, and that called the species the male. 
Indian-fig-like Mistletoe. Shrub parasitical. 
66 V. vacina‘rum (Humb. et Bonpl. in Willd. spec. 4.-p. 
740.) plant leafless; stem tetragonal; branches teretely com- 
pressed ; joints bearing sheaths, which are bidentate at the 
apex ; flowers 2, opposite, sessile in the recess of the sheath. 
h.P.S. Native of Mexico, in pine woods, on the high moun- 
tain called Cofre de Perote. H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 3. 
. 445. 
J Sheathed Mistletoe. Shrub parasitical. 
67 V. curuLa`rum (D.C. prod. 4. p. 285.) plant leafless ; 
stem tetragonal ; branches compressed ; sterile joints elongated : 
fertile ones very short, usually bearing 2 fruit each; sheaths 
very short ; flowers spicate, sessile, opposite; bractea cupulate, 
membranous, orbicular under each berry; berries ovate. h. 
P. S. Native of St. Domingo, where it was collected by Ber- 
tero. V. vaginatum ex Hispaniola, Spreng. syst. 1. p. 447. 
Cupulate-bractead Mistletoe. Shrub parasitical. 
68 V. Dominer'nsis (Spreng. syst. 1. p. 487.) plant leafless ; 
stem and branches terete ; sheaths large, bowl-shaped, bifid, with 
white rather scarious margins. h. P.S. Native of St. Do- 
mingo. Spikes opposite, flexuous. 
St. Domingo Mistletoe. Shrub parasitical. 
69 V. cra‘cite (D. C. prod. 4. p. 285.) stem terete; 
branches rather compressed, articulated ; joints linear, elongated, 
12 times longer than broad; spikes terminal, compressed, arti- 
culated, with the flowers disposed along the margins on both 
sides in distant rows. h.P.S. Native of the West Indies, 
but in what island is unknown. 
Slender Mistletoe. Shrub parasitical. 
70 V. Cutre’Nsr (Hook. et Arn. in Beech. bot. p. 25.) stem ` 
terete, branched ; branches and branchlets opposite, articulated, 
leafless ; flowers 2-3-together, sessile at the knees of the branches. 
hb. P. G. Native of Chili, at Conception. 
Chili Mistletoe. Shrub parasitical, 
+ Species not sufficiently known. 
71 V.? vurru'reum (Lin. spec. 1451.) branches terete; 
leaves obovate, obtuse, petiolate; racemes axillary, a little 
longer than the leaves; flowers opposite, distant, 3-6 pairs ; ber- 
ries obovate, on short pedicels, terminated by the long style. 
h.P.G. Native of the Bahama Islands, parasitical upon Hip- 
pomane Mancenilla. Catesb. caro}. 2. p. 95. t. 95. lower figure. 
Perhaps a species of Loranthus. 
Purple Mistletoe. Shrub par. 
72 V. VERTICILLATUM (Lam. dict. 3. p. 57.) stem terete, 
striated; branches verticillate, terete. h. P. S. Native of 
Jamaica, parasitical on the branches of trees. Sloane, jam. hist. 
2. p. 93. t. 201, f. 2, Perhaps a species of Rhipsalis. 
Whorled-branched Mistletoe. Shrub par. 
73 V. paucirLorum (Lin. fil. suppl. 246.) stem striated ; 
branches alternate; leaves alternate, sessile, oblong; flowers 
scattered, solitary, on short peduncles. h.P.G. Native of 
the Cape of Good Hope. From the leaves being alternate, this 
is perhaps a true species of Viscum. 
Fen flowered Mistletoe. Shrub. 
74 V. osscu‘rum (Thunb. prod. p. 31. fl. cap. p. 154.) stem 
erect, wrinkled; branches alternate; leaves opposite, elliptic, 
veinless, unequal. h.P.G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers and fruit unknown. 
Obscure Mistletoe. Shrub. 
75 V. anta'rcticum (Forst. prod. no. 370.) branches un- 
known ; leaves oblong or ovate, narrowed at both ends, obtuse, 
nerveless; racemes terminal, articulated, usually containing 5 
flowers. h. P. G. Native of New Zealand, parasitical on trees. 
Willd, spec. 4. p. 39. 
II. Arceutsosium. II. Misopenprum. 
Antarctic Mistletoe. Shrub par. 
76 V. Kæmrre'ni (D.C. prod. 4. p. 285.) h. P. G. Native 
of Japan, at Mikawaksei, Koempf. am. ex. 785. where it is 
called Gami Maatz. V. album, Thunb. jap. p. 64. but it differs 
from V. álbum in the spikes being axillary, in the berries being 
reddish, and in the leaves being 1-nerved. 
Keempfer’s Mistletoe. Shrub par. i 
N. B. V. rv‘srum, Burm. fl. ind. 811. is certainly not a 
species of Viscum, but perhaps one of Hédera. V. cAPILLARE 
and V. 1icuza‘tum, Blum. bijdr. 667. are species of Psilòtis. 
V. TERRESTRE, Lin. spec. 1452. is Lysimachia stricta. V. FLA- 
vE’scENs, Comm. is Misodéndron punctulatum. $ ; 
Cult. None of the species of Mistletoe are cultivable in gar- 
dens, except the common Mistletoe, whose culture and propa- 
gation are treated of under that species. 
II. ARCEUTHO'BIUM (from apxevboc, arkeuthos, the juni- 
per, and Bow, bioo, to live; in reference to the plant being para- 
sitical on Juniperus Oxycédrus). Bieb. fl. taur. suppl. p- 629. 
Hook. fl. bor. amer. 1. p. 277.—Viseum species, D. C. fl. fr. 
ed. 3. no. 3400. j 
Lin. syst. Dioécia, Di- Tetrandria. Flowers dioecious. Male 
ones sessile; calyx none; corolla monopetalous, 2-3, rarely 
4-parted, tough, and fleshy: segments ovate, concave, spread- 
ing; stamens 2-3-4; anthers sessile, fixed in the middle of the 
segments, free, nearly globose, 1-celled, membranous, dehiscing 
transversely ; ovarium none, but in its stead there is a small 
2-3-4-lobed gland. Female flowers on short pedicels ; calyx 
oval, compressed, fleshy, bidentate, almost covering the ovarium, 
which is one ovulate, and adnate to it ; corolla, style, and sta- 
mens none; stigma small, obscurely lobed. Berries narrow, ob» 
ovate, terete, 1-seeded, on short pedicels. Seed immersed in 
viscid pellucid pulp, fixed to the upper part of the cell, pendant, 
obovately cylindrical, acuminated at the base; integument oa 
albumen fleshy. Embryo immersed, slender, cylindrical, place 
towards the base of the seed; radical turned to the hilum of w 
seed.—A small, leafless, rather fleshy, proliferous a 
shrub, parasitical on resiniferous trees, in Middle Europe an 
North America; branches opposite, bluntly tetragonal, pepe 
lated in the manner of Salicérnia ; joints sheathing above, zt 
somewhat pelviform. Flowers terminal and lateral, usually by 
threes, small, and conspicuous. b 
1 A. Oxycr'pri (Bieb. fi. taur. suppl. p. 629. Hook. fl. be 
amer. 1. p. 278. t. 99.) .P.H. Native from Spain, neat “© 
curial, to Iberia, near ‘Tiflis and Gandscha, on Juniperus pig 
drus; and of North America, on the west side of the Roe y 
Mountains, on Pinus ponderòsa; and from the Spoken River x 
the west side of the Rocky Mountains, on Pinus Boake 
lat. 47°, to the Rocky Mountains and thence to Hudson $ ay 
on the east, in lat. 57°. In America the female plants grow K 
Pinus Banksiàna, and the male ones on Pinus ponderosa. P 
mówskia Caucásica, Hoffm. hort. mosq. 1808. intr. no. 1. * * 
Viscum Oxycédri, D. C. fl. fr. ed. 3. no. 3400. Stev. soc. poen 
4. p. 71. Bieb, fi. taur. 2. p. 406.—Viscum in Oxycèdro, mi 
hist. 1. p. 39. Lob. icon. 2. p. 223. f. 2. Nhisnais eee ah 
gular parasitical plant. The American plants become yellow 
when dried, and the European ones become blackish-green- 
Red-cedar Arceuthobium. Shrub par. age 
Cult. This curious plant is not cultivable, unless the w 
shrubs on which it grows could be imported with the p 
growing upon them, 
misos, disdain, and 
arance nor 
11 and 12. 
HI. MISODE'NDRUM (from joc, 
devdoov, dendron, a tree; trees with neither appe 
beauty). Banks, ined. D. C. coll. mem. 6. no. 2. t. 
prod. 4. p. 285. 
