MISTLETOE FAMILY 817 



wide; spikes mostly solitary, 1.5-3 cm. in flower, becoming 4-5 cm. long, gla- 

 brous, 4-iointed, each joint bearing near the top 6 pistillate or 20-30 staminate 

 flowers; bracts cihate; berry white, glabrous, 4 mm. thick. Parasitic on poplars, 

 willows and ashes: Tex. — s Colo. — N.M.; Chihuahua. Son. 



2. RAZOUMOFSKYA Hoffm. 



Small shrubby fleshy parasites, mostly dioecious. Leaves opposite, reduced 

 to scales. Flowers solitary in the axils of the upper scales. Calyx of the stam- 

 inate flowers 2-5-lobed, usually 3-lobed. Stamens as many as and adnate to 

 the lobes; anthers sessile, 1-celled, opening by a transverse circular slit. Hypan- 

 thium of the pistillate flowers enlosing the ovary. Calyx-lobes 2, persistent 

 on the fruit. Berry ovoid, more or less flattened. [Arce uthobium Bieb.] 



Staminate flowers all or nearly all at the ends of the branches, on distinct pedicels, dichoto- 



mously paniculate. 1. R. americana. 



Staminate flowers nearly all axillary, forming simple or compoimd spikes. 

 Branches 1-2 mm. in diameter. 



Plant yellowish green; accessory branclilets of fruiting specimens flower-bearing. 

 Spikes short, 3-.5-flowered ; stents blmitly angled. 



Rather simple, 1-3 cm. liigh; leaves and sepals obtusish, not distinctly 



keeled. 2. R. Douglasii. 



Stout, 3-5 cm. high, branched; leaves and sepals decidedly acute and keeled. 



3. R. laricis. 

 Spikes many-flowered; stems sharply angled. 4. R. cyanocarpa. 



Plant greenish brown ; accessory branches merely leaf-bearing. 5. R. divaricata. 

 Branches 3-4 mm. in diameter. 6. R. cryptopoda. 



1. R. americana (Xutt.) Kuntze. Stems dichotomously and verticillately 

 branched, greenish yellow; staminate plant 5-10 cm. high, 1-2 mm. thick at 

 the base; pistillate plant 2-5 cm. high; staminate flowers 2 mm. wide; lobes 

 round-ovate; pistiUate flowers somewhat smaller; fruit 2 mm. long, bluish. A. 

 americanum Nutt. Parasitic on Pinus Murrayana, contorta, and divaricata: Sask. 

 —Colo.— Ore.— B.C. Mont. Au-0. 



2. R. Douglasii (Engehn.) Kimtze. Plant slender, 1-3 cm. high, greenish 3^el- 

 low, dichotomously branched ; branches simple or with accessory branches behind the 

 first; flowers in short usually 5-flowered spikes, less than 2 mm. wide, the staminate 

 ones with round-ovate calyx-lobes; fruit 5 mm. long. A. Douglasii Engelm. On 

 Pseudotsuga mucronata: ]\Iont. — N.M. — Ariz. — Ore. — B.C. Mont. 



3. R. laricis Piper. Divaricately branched, 3-5 em. high, greenish yellow; 

 branches angled; flowers in short 3-7-flowered spikes, the staminate ones fully 

 2 mm. wide, 3-raerous; lobes ovate, abruptly acute; scales (reduced leaves) de- 

 cidedly acute; fruit unknown. A. Douglasii Laricis (Piper) M. E. Jones. On 

 Larix occidcntalis: Wash. — Mont. — Ida. — Ore. Mont. 



4. R. cyanocarpa A. Nels. Stems simple or branched below, the staminate 

 ones 2-3 cm. high, sharply 4-angled, yellowish green, the pistiUate ones olive- 

 green; staminate flowers 5^20 on the spikes; calyx-lobes usuaUy 3, ovate, keeled; 

 berry obovate, bluish green. On Apinus flexilis: Wyo. — Colo. Mont. - Jl-S. 



5. R. divaricata (Engehn.) Kuntze. Stem 5-10 cm. high and 2 mm. thick, 

 olive-green to pale brownish; branches often spreading and recurved, only leaf- 

 bearing; staminate flowers in 1-7-flowered spikes, 2 mm. wide; lobes ovate, acute; 

 fruit 3-4 mm. long. A. divaricatum Engelm. On Caryopitys edulis and mono- 

 phylla: N.M.— Colo.— Utah— Ariz. Son. Au-S. 



6. R. cr3rptopoda (Engehn.) Coville. Stout, 5-10 cm. high, 4-6 mm. thick, 

 paniculate, much branched, brownish-j'ellow to ohve-brown; staminate plant 

 smaUer than the pistillate one; staminate spikes compressed; flowers mostly 

 3-merous, 2.5-3 mm. wide: lobes ovate, acute; fruit 5 mm. long. A. cryptopodum 

 and robustum Engelm. On Pinus scopulorum, ponderosa, arizonica, Jeffreyi, &c.: 

 N.M.— Colo. — Ariz. Son. — Mont. 



Family 126. SANTALACEAE. Sandalwood Family. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, mostly root-parasites or saprophytes. Leaves 

 without stipules, simple. Flowers perfect, monoecious, or dioecious, mostly 

 greenish. Hypanthium well developed and enclosing the ovary, adnate at 



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