1248 SANTALACEAE 
sistent sepals. Seed solitary.—About 100 species, American.—AMERICAN- 
MISTLETOES. MISTLET 
Spikes permanently short (2-3 em.), rather closely covered pir berries. 
Leat- ae relatively broad, oblanceolate to obovate, 
orbieul . P. flavescens. 
E blades relatively narrow, spatulate or elliptic-spatu- 
2. P. Eatoni. 
Spikes T (6-7 cm.) with the berries in separated 
whorls. 3. P.macrotomum. 
1. P. flavescens (Pursh) Nutt. Stem minutely puberulous, becoming gla- 
brate: leaf-blades oblanceolate to obovate (or orbicular in the southwestern 
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25-50 mm. long: spikes moderately short, = 
20-30 mm. long, short-peduncled, with 2 or 3 to 6 ellipsoid joints 6— 12-fow era 
or even 30-flowered when staminate, and about 3 short joints some 6-flowered 
when pistillate: ~ A white, o ellipsoid, 5m F meter, 
with inflexed sepals.—On ash trees or sometimes on oaks and oo me S pen. 
la.—Plants in d es much-branched tufts. 
P. macrotomum Trelease. Stem minutely puberulous or glabrescent: ne 
blades oblanceolate, d cuneately subpetioled, 50-70 mm. long: spi 
rather long, 20-30 mm., reaching 60—70 mm. in fruit, short- -peduncled, with 
e oid, 4 m 
in separated whorls, with HP pn d s sepal —On various m trees, Fla.— 
lants forming large rather open tufts 
Famy 2. SANTALACEAE — Sanpat-woop FAMILY 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, parasitic on the oh of other plants. Leaves 
opposite or E blades entire. Flowers perfect, polygamous, or 
dioecious, the sta minate elustered, the pistillate often solitary. Calyx of 
3-6 sepals. Corolla wantin Androecium of 3-6 stamens opposite the 
sepals on the edge of the hypan nthium. Gynoecium compound. Fruit 
mostly drupaceous.—About 26 genera and 250 species, mostly tropical. 
Herbaceous perennials: flowers perfect: stigma capitat 1. COMANDRA. 
Shrubs: flowers dioecious or DOl amon stigma 2—4- lobe d. 
Staminate flow els A mbel-like clusters: leaves 
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leaves pee FT nearly S 
Hypanthium of the S omina flowers turbinate: anthers 
connected with the sepals by a tuft of hairs. 2. NESTRONIA. 
Hypanthium of the staminate flowers flat: anthers not con- 3. BUCKLEYA. 
nected with the sepals, 4. PYRULARIA. 
Staminate flowers in racemes: leaves alternate. 
