LORANTHACEAE 1247 
calyx- ica ovate to obovate, obtuse, not keeled, scarious-margined: corolla in- 
on uous; tubes p pida as long as the calyx; lobes spr Pe or reflexed: 
capsule ovoid, abou m. long, rene surpassing the calyx-lobes, circum- 
scissile a the middle: eer 6-18, 0.7 mm. long.—Waste-places, roadsides, cult. 
grounds, and damp x various Wo U. S. and S Can. In par = natural- 
ized from Eu.—(W. I., x.)—Spr.—fall.—The ae are dull-gre 
P. cordata Lam. Leaves basal, 1—4.5 dm. long; blades ovate to sub- 
Pd 5-30 em. long, acute or obtuse, 7—9-nerved, these confluent with 
the ae eee the agers of blade, entire or shallowly toothed, rounded 
or cordat the bas scapes erect, surpassing the leaves, 15-50 em. tall: 
spike Dod nu. some times interrupted: braets cu. vate or reni- 
form, 1.5-3 mm. long: calyx-lobes ovate to suborbicular, 2.5-3 mm. long, 
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i e dd at the middle or slightly below it: seeds 1-4, 3.5-4 mm. long. 
—Str aed shaded swamps, various provinces, Ala. to La., Ont., and 
T anes 
OnpER SANTALALES — SANTALAL ORDER 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, mostly root- or tree-parasites. Leaves with 
expanded blades or scale-like. Flowers inconspicuous, perfect or imper- 
fect. Calyx present, but often a mere border. Corolla present or want- 
ing. Androecium of as many stamens as there are sepals, or petals, or 
twice as many. Gynoecium of several united carpels. Ovary more or less 
inferior. Fruit a drupe, a nut, or a berry. 
Stamens as many as the petals or sepals: ovules not freely pendulous from an erect 
pi S ood ite: fruit a berry: tree-parasites. Fam.1. LORANTHACEAE, 
Leaves uy alternate: fruit a drupe or a nut: root- 
arasi Fam. 2. SANTALACEAE. 
Stamens a s many as the petals, except in Schoepfia: ; 
ovules freely pendulous from the erect placenta. Fam. 3. OLACACEAE. 
FAMILY 1. LORANTHACEAE! — MISTLETOE FAMILY 
Green or olive-brown shrubs or half- shrubs, with chlorophyll-bearing 
es, growing on woody plants from which they take sap through spe- 
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Calyx of mostly 3 valvate sepals, each with a minute opposed stamen. 
Gynoecium compound, often 2-carpellary, but ovary inferior, 1-celled 
with a single little-differentiated ovule. Style single or wanting: stigma 
blunt or capitate. Fruit a berry or a drupe, the mesocarp Mad viscid.— 
Abo ut 2l genera and 500 species, most abundant in the tropies 
1. PHORADENDRON Nutt. Stem rather fleshy about a woody axis, 
s at the nodes. Le eaves id aap scale-like or fleshy-coriaceous. Inflores- 
e l- to several-jointed. Spikes solitary or clustered in the axils. Flowers 
very is apetalous, dioecious: nies with a 3-lobed (rarely 2- to 5-lobed) 
calyx: anthers Papi sessile, 2-celled, dehiscing upwards: pistillate similar, 
the stigma nearly sessile. Berry subglobose, sessile, erowned with the per- 
1 Contributed by William Trelease. 
