608 LORANTHACEZ COMANDRA 
PHORADENDRON 
and its 5 oblong lobes. In dry open places, Brit. Columbia to California 
and the Eastern States. 
C. pallida A. DC, Prodr. xiv, 636. Stems slender, simple or branch- 
ed, 4-12 inches high, very leafy: leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, or the 
lower ones oblong-elliptic, acute, sessile: cymes few-several-flowered, 
corymbose-clustered at the summit: “setae usually short: pedicels about 
a line long: calyx greenish or purplish, about 2 lines high: drupe ovoid- 
oblong, about 2 lines in diameter crowned by the very short upper portion 
of the calyx-tube and its 5 oblong acute lobes. On dry hillsides, in the 
interior, Brit. Columbia to California and Minnesota. 
OrpdER LXXXVII LORANTHACEZ D. Don 
Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 142. (1825) 
Parasitic, green or reddish plants growing upon wood 
plants and absorbing food from their sap through specializey 
roots called haustoria, with mostly opposite leaves and regular 
monoecious or dioecious flowers in axillary or terminal clusterd 
or solitary. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, its limb entirer 
toothed or lobed. Stamens 2-6: anthers 2-celled, or confluents 
Jy 1-celled. Ovary solitary, erect: style simple or none: stigma- 
terminal, entire. Fruit a berry with glutinous pulp. Seed 
solitary, its testa indistinguishable from the copious fleshy 
albumen. mbryo terete or angled. 
1. Ehereteganes Leaves thick and flat: anthers 2-celled: berry 
sessile. 
2 Razoumofskya Leaves scale-like, united at base: anthers 1-celled: 
berry peduncled. 
1 PHORADENDRON Nutt. Journ. Acad. Philad. ser. 2, i, 185. 
Parasitic shrubs with mostly jointed branches, opposite flat 
leaves and small dicecious flowers in axillary spikes. Staminate 
flowers with a 2-4- usually 3-lobed globose or ovoid calyx, bearing 
a transversely 2-celled anther at the base of each lobe. Pistillate 
flowers with a similar calyx adnate to the inferior ovary. Style 
short, with obtuse or capitate stigma. Fruit a sessile ovoid or 
globose berry. 
P. villosum Nutt. Pl. Gambel. 185. Stems stout, diffusely much 
branched, 1-2 feet long: leaves orbicular to spatulate, 6-20 lines long, per- 
manently villous, rounded at the ve narrowed below to a short petiole, 
very thick and obscurely veiny: spikes slender, rather short: berries white, 
i snes, in diameter. On oak trees, from the Willamette valley Oregon to 
alifornia. 
P. juniperinum Engelm. Pl. Fendl. 85. Glabrous, stout, densely 
branched: 6-9 inches high: branches terete, the ultimate branchlets 
quadrangular: leaves mostly reduced to broadly triangular, obtusish con- 
nate or distinct ciliate scales: staminate spikes solitary, 6-8-flowered: 
anthers transverse, opening by pores: pistillate spikes 2-flowered: berries 
globose, whitish or light red, 144 lines in diameter. On Junipers, south- 
eastern Oregon to California. 
P. Libocedri. P. juniperinum var. Libocedri Engelm. ? Glabrous: 
stems fleshy, 6-12 inches long, densely branched: most of the leaves re 
duced to broadly triangular connate naked scales: staminate spikes solitary 
