IIS I'll'KUACK.K. (PKIM'KU FAMILY.) 



sli/x'"'!^' iiiiliricatc'il iu the bud, deiiduons. Stamens 4. Disk of tlio fcrtiln 

 (lower 4-lolifd, Heshy. Style short: stigma 4-lol)ed. Drupe oblony, com- 

 pressed, furrowed. Embryo slender, in the axis of copious fleshy albumen. — 

 An erect shrub, with straight slender branches. Leaves nearly opposite, dis- 

 tichous, lanceolate, acute, jjubesceut. Flowers terminal, greenish, the sterile 

 umliellate, the fertile solitary. 



1. B. distichophylla, Torr. — Mountains of North Carolina (Buckley). 

 — Shrub G^-T- iiigh. Leaves thin, I'-lf long. Caly.x tube 4"-5" long, 

 scarcely longer than tlie e.Kterior spreading lobes, much longer thau the inner 

 ones. Drupe Y long. 



Okdek IIL LOKANTHACE^E. (Mistletoe Family.) 



Parasitical shrubby iilants, with evergreen almost veinless leaves, 

 ■without .stipules, and perfect or dic^cious flowers. — Calyx of 2-8 

 sepals, distinct, or united into a tube, valvate in the bud, sometimes 

 wanting. Stamens 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 dioecious, in short jointed s])ikes. Calyx of the sterile flower glob- 

 ular, 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 glo- 

 bose, pulpy, 1-seeded. — Evergreen shrubs, growing on the branches of vari- 

 ous trees, with brittle jointed stems, thick persistent leaves, and small flowers 

 in axillary spikes. 



1. P. flavescens, Nutt. (Viscum, Pnrsh.) —Florida to Mississippi, 

 and nortlnvanl. April-May. — Plant yellowish, 2° -3^ long. Branches op- 

 posite or whorled. Leaves obovate, fleshy. Spikes shorter than the leaves. 

 Berry white, glutinous. 



Order 11.5. PIPERACE^. (Pepper Family.) 



Chiefly herbs with jointed stems, entire leaves, and perfect achla- 

 mydeous flowers in bracted spikes or racemes. — Stamens few or many, 

 hypogj-nous : anthers opening lengthwise. Ovaries single, or 3-5, and 

 more or less united. Ovules few or solitary, orthotropous, ascending. 

 Embryo minute, contained in a cavity at the apex of the albumen. 

 Fruit 1- few-seeded. 



1. SAURURUS, L. Lizard's-Tail. 



Stamens 4-8, with long club-shaped filaments. Anthers introrse. Fruit 

 somewhat fleshy, composed of 3 -4 partly united 1 -2-8eeded carpels, pointed 

 with as many recurved stigmas. — Flowers white. 



