CHAP. I.] LORANTHE^. 385 



white flowers, and very large and showy purple 

 and reddish bracts. The berries are of a very 

 dark purple, and they are nearly as large as a 

 gooseberry. L. formosa is a native of Nepaul, 

 but it appears tolerably hardy in British 

 gardens, and it stands the sea-breeze without 

 injury. 



LinncEa horealis is a little innsigificant trailing 

 plant, which is included in this order, and 

 which is only worth mentioning on account of 

 its being named in honour of Linnseus. It is a 

 half-shrubby evergreen, with small bell-shaped 

 flesh-coloured flowers, which are said to be 

 fragrant at night. 



ORDER CI LORANTHE^. 



Four genera are included in this order, all 

 remarkable in different ways. The first of 

 these is the common Mistletoe {Viscum alburn)^ 

 a most remarkable parasite, a native of Britain, 

 and generally found on old apple-trees ; and the 

 second is Loranthus europcBus, a native of Ger- 

 manyj closely resembling the Mistletoe, but 

 found generally on the oak, where the true 

 Mistletoe rarely grows. This plant is said to 

 have been introduced in 1824, but it is not now 

 in the country. There are other species of the 

 genera, one a native of New Holland. Nuytsia 

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