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position at the summit of the filament, oval, bursting with two 
longitudinal slits. Style threadlike, about as long as the petals. 
Stigma slightly dilated. Fruit totally enclosed in the tube of the 
calyx, one-seeded, viscid inside, oval or somewhat pear-shaped. 
Seed erect ; its albumen large; the short embryo near its summit ; 
the cotyledonar portion turned downward ; the radicle narrow- 
conical. This species extends to New South Wales and Queens- 
land, but not to Tasmania, where no Mistletoe exists. 
Senora common aera species is the Loranthus pendulus ; : 
it is not unlike L. celastroides, being pendent in long masses 
from the branches of Hucalypts hice: ; it is also variable in the 
form of its foliage, but the leaves are here usually elongated and 
narrow and the anthers are erect and fixed at the base, while 
L. celastroides is the only one in our colony, which has the 
anthers fixed dorsally. A variety occurs, which is all over 
grey and slightly downy. This species ranges over the whole 
Australian continent. 
The two remaining Victorian Loranths are truly ornamental 
objects, most decorative to the trees, which they infest, though 
destructive to them. The Loranthus Exocarpi prefers the 
Casuarinas and as the name implies also the native Cherry-trees 
to settle on, but it occurs also on Melaleucas, Acacias, Myoporums, 
less commonly on Eucalypts or introduced trees, and sometimes 
it preys on other Loranths, effecting a double parasitism. Its 
leaves are linear or oblong or somewhat wedge-shaped ; the 
flowers stand axillary in a single pair or solitary ; the petals are 
brilliantly red or yellow and tipped with green, and do not readily 
separate towards their base ; the berries are black. Loranthus 
linophyllus is easily recognised among all others of this colony 
by its stringlke leaves, which never become flat, while the flowers 
approach those of L. pendulus, being red inside ; the berries are 
pink and very succulent. It is found in nearly every part of 
Australia, and inhabits preferentially Acacias with us, particu- 
larly Blackwood-trees. 
Birdslime is obtainable from the viscous berries of the 
Mistletoes. 
