44 MISTLETOES. 
of thick-consistence and at the margin entire. The flowers are 
ternately placed on the ultimate stalks, several of these forming 
a panicle. The margin of the calyx is slightly waved and thus 
teethless as 
in most Lo- 
ranths (con- 
spicuously 
dentated caly- 
ces occurring 
in few spe- 
cies). Petals 
5 or some- 
times 6, yel- 
<== lowish - red, 
Fie. XIX.—(Loranthus celastroides).—1, a petal from an 
unexpanded flower; 2, the same from an expanded flower; 
3, pollen-grain ; 4, berry with style; 5, longitudinal section of 
berry ; 6, longitudinal section of seed. 
measuring 14 
to 2 inches in 
length, nar- 
row, seceding 
in age, gla- 
brous lke all 
other parts of 
the plant. 
Stamens op- 
posite to the 
petals and 
more than 
half of their 
length adnate 
to them ; free 
part of fila- 
ments finely 
awlshaped 
(subulate). 
Anthers fixed 
at their back, 
in an almost 
transversal 
