) ORD. V. Conglomerate: "= VISCUM: ALBUM 
Dioecia Tetrandria. Zin. Gen. Plant. 1105. 
Gen. Ch.. Masc. Cal. 4-partitus. Cor.0. Filamenta0. Anthere 
calyci adnate. 
Fem. Cal. 4-phyllus, superus. Cor. 9. Stylus 0. 
Bacca 1-sperma, Sem. cordatum. 
Sp. Ch. V. foliis lanceolatis obtusis, caule dichotomo, spicis 
axillaribus. 
A PARASITICAL evergreen shrub, insinuating its radical fibres 
into the wood of the trees on which it grows. Branches numerous, 
regularly dichotomous, covered with smooth bark, of a yellowish 
green colour. Leaves spear-shaped, blunt, entire, striated, standing 
in pairs upon short footstalks. Flowers male and female in different 
plants, small, axillary, in close spikes. Calyx of the male flower 
divided into four ovate equal segments. Corolla none. Filaments. 
none, Antherz four, oblong, attached to the calyx. Calyx of the 
female flower divided into four leaves, which are small, ovate, deci- 
duous, placed on the-common-germen. Corolla-none._Germen 
beneath, oblong, three-edged, indistinctly crowned with a border 
with four clefts. Style none. Stigma blunt, and somewhat notched. 
Fruit a globular white smooth one-celled berry, containing a fleshy. 
seed, which is inversely heart-shaped, blunt, compressed. 
{t grows on various kinds of trees, producing its flowers in May; 
but its berries remain throughout the winter. 
This singular parasitical plant most commonly grows on apple 
trees, also on the pear, hawthorn, service, oak, hasel, maple, ash, 
lime-tree, willow, elm, hornbeam, &c. It is supposed to be 
propagated by birds, especially by the fieldfare and thrush, which 
feed upon its berries, the seeds of which pass through the bowels 
unchanged, and along with the excrements watthere to the branches 
of trees where they vegetate.* 
* Or if the berries, when fully ripe, be rubbed on the smooth bark of almost 
any tree, they will adhere closely and produce plants the following Winter. 
