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SANTALACEJE. (SANDALWOOD FAMILY.) 
(Name from Kopt), hair , and avbpts, for stamens , in allusion to the 
hairy tufts attached to the anthers.) 
1. C. um'bellata, Nutt. Leaves obovate-oblong ; cymes co¬ 
rymbose-clustered, several-flowered; calyx-tube conspicuously con¬ 
tinued beyond the ovary, forming a neck to the globular-urn-shaped 
fruit; the lobes oblong; style slender, as long as the stamens. — Dry 
or rocky banks, common. May, June. — Stems branching, 8 ; -10* 
high from a rather woody root, very leafy. 
2 . PYRULARIA, Michx. Oil-nut. Buffalo-nut. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx 5-cleft, the lobes recurved. Sterile 
flowers with 5 stamens on very short filaments, alternate with 5 
rounded glands. Fertile flowers with a pear-shaped ovary in¬ 
vested by the adherent calyx, naked at the flat summit: disk with 
5 glands : style short and thick : stigma capitate-flattened. Fruit 
fleshy and drupe-like, pear-shaped, the globose endocarp thin. 
Embryo small: albumen very oily. — A low straggling shrub, 
with alternate short-petioled and veiny deciduous leaves; the 
small greenish flowers sessile in very short and simple terminal 
spikes. (Name a diminutive of Pyrus, from the fruit, which looks 
like a small pear.) 
1- P. Oleifera. (P. pubera, Michx. Hamiltonia oleifera, Muhl.) 
— Rich wooded banks, mountains of Penn, and southward. May. 
Leaves obovate-oblong, pointed at both ends, a little downy, or at 
length nearly smooth, somewhat succulent, oily to the taste. Spikes 
ripening but one fruit, which is about 1/ long. 
Order 92. L-ORANTHACEiE. (Mistletoe Family-) 
Shrubby plants with coriaceous greenish foliage, para- 
sitic on trees , represented in the northern temperate zone 
chiefly by the Mistletoe, distinguished from the preceding 
family by the truly simple ovule (consisting of a naked nu¬ 
cleus alone) being solitary and suspended from the 
of the cell . Fruit a 1-seeded berry. 
VIS C PHI, L. Mistletoe. 
Flowers monoecious or dioecious. Calyx fleshy-coriaceous ; in 
the sterile flowers 3 - 4-parted, the triangular lobes valvate in the 
bud, each with a sessile anther directly adhering to its inner face, 
