SANMAI.WOOD FAMILY. 



D. Cnebrum. Hardy undcr-shrub from En., spreading and branching, 

 witli crowded lance-oblong or oblaneeolate evergreen leaves (less than 1' 1 

 and a terminal cluster nt' hand-ome ro-e-j.ink flowers in spring. 



D. Odbra, SWEET DAI-HXE. Greenhouse shrub from China, with bright 

 green lance-oblong evergreen leaves, and terminal clusters of white or pale pink 

 sweet-scented flower-, in winter. 



2. Dl'RCA, LKATIIKKWOOD, MOOSK-\VOOD. (Classical Greek 

 name of a celebrated fountain.) 



D. palllStris, the only species, in damp woods chiefly N. : shrub 2-G 

 high, with tender white wood, bnt very tough bark, used' bv the Indians for 

 thongs (whence the popular names), the numerous branches ;l ; ;c joint,., 1 , ; i,. a ves 

 obovate or oval, alternate, nearly smooth, deciduous; flowers before the li 

 in earliest spring, honey -yellow, few in a cluster from a bud of 3 or 4 dark-hairy 

 scales forming an involucre ; berry reddish. 



98. EL^AGNACE^, OLEASTER FAMILY. 



Silvery-scurfy shrubs or small trees, having often dioecious 

 inconspicuous flowers, the calyx-tube of the fertile ones itself 

 enclosing the ovary, becoming fleshy and ripening into a sort of 

 berry, around the akene-like true fruit, the seed of which is erect. 

 Otherwise much like the preceding family. 



Shepherdia Canadensis, a low shrub along onr northern borders, with 

 opposite oval leaves, soon green above, but silvery and with some ru.-t\ scurf 

 beneath, din-clous 4-partcd (lowers, and yellow berries. 



S. argentea, BITFFAI.O-BKKUY. shrul) through the plains and mountains 

 far \V. and X. \V., and planted for ornament, has alternate ohlong leaves with 

 narrowed base, silvery both sides, and edible acid red berries. 



Elseagnus arg6ntea, SII.VI.K-HKKRY of the far West, also cult., with 

 oval silvery leaves and mealy edible berries ; the genus known bv the mostly 

 perfect flowers \\ith salver-shaped calyx, the .stamen- only a> mam as the lobes, 

 usually 4. One or two Old World species are occasionally planted. 



99. SANTALACE.SI, SANDAL WOOD FAMILY. 



Represented by one or two shrubs along the Alleghanies S., one 

 of them (lit- !'> i;i I.AICIA OLKIKKUA, the OII.-.M r or Bui i AI.O-NTT, 

 and widely by a low herb, viz. 



1. Comandra umbellata. Dry ground, common X.: probably para- 

 Mi ic 011 the roots of shrubs. Known by the ~> stamens with their anthers 

 connected y\ ith the face of the white calyx-lobes behind them b\ a tuft of thread- 

 lii.e hairs (to which the name-, from the Creek, alludes); tube of the calyx 

 coherent below with the ovary, becoming a hard or nut-like fruit, tilled by a 

 globular seed. Stems 6'- 10' high, with many small oblong pale leaves. 



100. LORANTHACEJE, MISTLETOE FAMILY. 



I'ani.-itic on the branches of trees, represented only, through the 

 Middle and Southern States, by 



Phorad6ndron flav6scens, AHBBICAH MISTLKTOK ; with obovate or 



oval, yellowish-green, thick, slightly petioled leaves, and short yellowish jointed 

 spikes iu their axils, of diieciotis greenish flowers, the fertile ones riuening whit* 



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