150 TYPES OF BRITISH PLANTS 
evidence now, although there would seem to be some 
trace of it still around the pistil flowers, which spring 
in threes from the ends of the branches, in the same 
fashion as the stamen flowers. The three female flowers 
produce three white berries, which ripen in the autumn 
and winter and are noteworthy for the great stickiness 
of their contents. This enables them to cling to the 
bark of trees to which they may be carried, and to hold 
on, in spite of wind and weather, until the young seed 
has had time to send out a rootlet and anchor itself 
firmly to the bark of its unwilling host. 
