LORANTHACE® 125 
V. album, L., Mistletoe; parasitic on various trees, 
chiefly apple, hawthorn, and lime; not very common. 
Order LXXVIII.—ELZ AGNACE. 
Flowers small, regular, unisexual or bisexual, white or 
yellow, solitary or in cymes; calyx 2-6-cleft ; ovary en- 
closed in the thickened base of the calyx, 1-celled, 1-ovuled; 
fruit a utricle enclosed in the calyx-tube; leaves covered 
with brown or silvery peltate scales. A very small order 
of trees or shrubs; not alpine. 
1. HIPPOPHAE, L. 
Flowers dicecious, the female solitary, the male in 
axillary clusters; sepals 2; stamens 2; leaves silvery 
with peltate scales. 
FH. rhamnoides, L., Sea-Buckthorn; spiny, leaves linear- 
lanceolate ; beds of streams ; Switzerland, Tirol, Styria, 
Carinthia, Salzburg, Dauphiny. 
Order LXXIX.—ARISTOLOCHIACE. 
Flowers large, bisexual, solitary or in spikes or racemes, 
regular or irregular; calyx tubular, campanulate, or 
trumpet-shaped ; stamens 6-12; ovary 4-6-celled; styles 
6; fruit a capsule or berry; stem often climbing; leaves 
entire or lobed. A small order, chiefly Tropical ; not 
alpine. 
I. ARISTOLOCHIA, L. 
Calyx coloured, inflated, trumpet-shaped; anthers 
usually 6, adnate in a whorl to the very short 6-lobed 
style ; leaves entire. 
