THYMELAACE 123 
leaves stiff, coriaceous, sessile, not mucronate; Southern 
Tirol, rare. 
B. Flowers white or yellowish-green :—D. Laureola, 
L., Spurge-Laurel; flowers yellowish-green, drooping, in 
stalked few-flowered axillary cymes, leaves thick, ever- 
green, lanceolate; mountain woods, local. D. alpina, L.; 
flowers white, in terminal umbels, calyx woolly, leaves 
thin, light green, ovate, deciduous; alpine rocks, local. 
D. Blagayana, Fr.; flowers white, fragrant, in terminal 
umbels, stem unbranched, leaves obovate, evergreen ; 
bushy places; Styria, Carniola, rare. 
Order LXXVI.—SANTALACE. 
Flowers small, unisexual or bisexual, solitary or in 
cymes; calyx 3—5-lobed, often coloured; stamens 3-5 ; 
ovary I-celled; ovules 2-5, of very simple structure, 
without integument; fruit a I-celled 1-seeded achene; 
leaves entire. A small widely distributed order; mostly 
parasites. 
I. THESIUM, L. 
Flowers minute, bisexual, green or white, solitary in 
the axils of the leaves, or in corymbose cymes; calyx 
usually 5-lobed; stem usually prostrate, wiry; leaves 
narrow. Root-parasites. The species of Bastard-Toad- 
flax run into one another, and are very difficult to dis- 
tinguish. 
A. Flowers subtended by a single bract :—7. vostra- 
tum, M. K.; stem terminating in a tuft of leaves without 
flowers; pastures; Switzerland, Tirol, Salzburg, Bavaria, 
rare. 
