SAURURACEJE. (LIZARD'S-TAIL FAMILY.) 397 
4. BUCKLEYA, Torr. 
Flowers dicecious. Calyx club-shaped, the limb double, each pati] the 
exterior lobes linear, leafy, somewhat persistent, the interior triarfeular-ovate, 
slightly imbricated in the bud, deciduous. Stamens of the sterile flower 4. 
Disk of the fertile flower 4-lobed, fleshy. Style short: stigma 4-lobed. Drupe 
oblong, compressed, furrowed. Embryo slender, in the axis of copious fleshy 
albumen. — An erect shrub, with straight and slender branches. Leaves scarcely 
petioled, nearly opposite, distichous, lanceolate, acute, pubescent. Flowers ter- 
minal, greenish, the sterile ones umbellate, the fertile solitary. 
1. B. distichophylla, Torr.— Mountains of North Carolina, Buckley.— 
Shrub 69-79 high. Leaves thin, 1/-14! long.  Calyx-tube 4-5" long, 
scarcely longer than the exterior spreading lobes, much longer than the inner 
ones. Drupe 1! long. 
 Onpzg 114. LORANTHACEZ/E. (MisrLETOE FAMILY.) 
Parasitical shrubby plants, with evergreen almost veinless leaves, with- 
out stipules, and perfect or dicecious flowers. — Calyx of 2-— 8 sepals, dis- 
tinct or united into a tube, valvate in the bud, sometimes wanting. Sta- 
mens as many as the sepals and opposite them. Ovary 1-celled, commonly 
with a single suspended ovule. Style simple or none. Fruit berry-like. 
Seeds anatropous. Embryo longer than the fleshy albumen. 
1. PHORADENDRON, Nutt MISTLETOE. 
Flowers dicecious, in short jointed spikes. Calyx of the sterile flower globular, 
2-4-lobed. Anthers sessile at the base of the lobes, transversely 2-celled. 
Calyx of the fertile flower adnate to the ovary. Stigma sessile. Berry globose, 
pulpy, 1-seeded. — Evergreen shrubs, growing on the branches of various trees, 
- with brittle jointed stems, thick persistent leaves, and small flowers in axillary 
Spikes. 
l. P. flavescens, Nutt. (Viscum flavescens, Pursh.) — Florida to Missis- 
sippi, and northward. April and May.— Plant yellowish, 2°-3° long. 
Branches opposite or whorled. Leaves obovate, fleshy. Spikes shorter than 
the leaves, Berry white, glutinous. 
— Orver 115. SAURURACE. (Lazanp's-rAIL FAMILY.) 
Perennial marsh herbs, with jointed stems, alternate entire leaves, with 
i Sheathing stipules, and perfect flowers in bracted spikes or racemes. — 
Calyx and corolla none. Stamens few or many, hypogynous: anthers 
,  nrome, opening lengthwise. Ovaries 3-5, more or less united. Ovules 
` few, orthotropous, ascending. Embryo minute, cordate, contained in 
‘avity at the apex of the albumen. Fruit follicular, 1 Eas is 
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