MISTLETOE 



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formula </ P 2+a or 3+3 A s+a or 3+3 ; ? P 2 + 2 G (2). Pollen 

 sulphur-yellow, oval, finely papillate, and adherent. Ovary 

 of 2 carpels, syncarpous and inferior, one-celled, sunk in 



Fig. 92. Mistletoe, Viscum album. 1, shoot of female plant, bearing 

 flowers and fruit; 2, group of flowers; 3, a male flower; 4, section of 

 flower; 5, section of fruit, p. 264 (Wo). 



the receptacle and fused with it; with one immersed 

 ovule. The stigma thick and blunt. Entomophilous. 



Fig. 93. A, plan-diagram of <? flowering shoot of Mistletoe, Viscum 

 album; B, the same of a ? shoot and flowers, v bracts; I leaves with 

 shoots in their axils; a and b bracteoles of the inflorescence. Each <? 

 flower shows four or six perianth-segments bearing fused anthers ; each 

 ? flower four perigone-segments around the ovary, p. 264 (Ei). 



