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LORANTHACEjE. I. VISCUM. II. ARCEUTHOBIUH. III. MISODENDRUM. 



Berries oval-oblong ; flowers 3-cleft. Perhaps the present 

 variety is the female plant, and that called the species the male. 

 Indian-fg-like Mistletoe. Shrub parasitical. 



66 V. VAGINA^TUM (Humb. et Bonpl. in Willd. spec. 4. p. 

 740.) plant leafless ; stem tetragonal ; branches teretely com- 

 pressed ; joints bearing sheaths, which are bidentate at the 

 apex ; flowers 2, opposite, sessile in the recess of the sheath. 



J? . P. S. Native of Mexico, in pine woods, on the high moun- 

 tain called Cofre de Perote. H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. S, 

 p. 445. 



Sheathed Mistletoe. Shrub parasitical. 



67 V. CUPULA'TUM (D. C. prod. 4. p. 285.) plant leafless; 

 stem tetragonal ; branches compressed ; sterile joints elongated : 

 fertile ones very short, usually bearing 2 fruit each ; sheaths 

 very short ; flowers spicate, sessile, opposite ; bractea cupulate, 

 membranous, orbicular under each berry ; berries ovate. Jj . 

 P. S. Native of St. Domingo, where it was collected by Ber- 

 tero. V. vaginatum ex Hispaniola, Spreng. syst. 1. p. 447. 



t'M^?(/a/e-bractead Mistletoe. Shrub parasitical. 



68 V. DOMINGE'NSIS (Spreng. syst. 1. p. 487.) plant leafless; 

 stem and branches terete ; sheaths large, bowl-shaped, bifid, with 

 white rather scarious margins. J? . P. S. Native of St. Do- 

 mingo. Spikes opposite, flexuous. 



St. Domingo Mistletoe. Shrub parasitical. 



69 V. GRA V CILE (D. C. prod. 4. p. 285.) stem terete; 

 branches rather compressed, articulated ; joints linear, elongated, 

 1 2 times longer than broad ; spikes terminal, compressed, arti- 

 culated, with the flowers disposed along the margins on both 

 sides in distant rows. Tj . P. S. Native of the West Indies, 

 but in what island is unknown. 



Slender Mistletoe. Shrub parasitical. 



70 V. CHILE'NSE (Hook, et Am. in Beech, bot. p. 25.) stem 

 terete, branched ; branches and branchlets opposite, articulated, 

 leafless ; flowers 2-3-together, sessile at the knees of the branches. 



fj . P. G. Native of Chili, at Conception. 

 Chili Mistletoe. Shrub parasitical. 



j" Species not sufficiently known. 



71 V.? PURPUREUM (Lin. spec. 1451.) branches terete; 

 leaves obovate, obtuse, petiolate ; racemes axillary, a little 

 longer than the leaves ; flowers opposite, distant, 3-6 pairs ; ber- 

 ries obovate, on short pedicels, terminated by the long style. 

 Jj . P. G. Native of the Bahama Islands, parasitical upon Hip- 



pomane Mancenilla. Catesb. carol. 2. p. 95. t. 95. lower figure. 

 Perhaps a species of Loranthus. 

 Purple Mistletoe. Shrub par. 



72 V. VERTICILLA'TUM (Lam. diet. 3. p. 57.) stem terete, 

 striated ; branches verticillate, terete. (7 . P. S. Native of 

 Jamaica, parasitical on the branches of trees. Sloane, jam. hist. 

 2. p. 93. t. 201. f. 2. Perhaps a species of Rhipsalis. 



rFAorZed-branched Mistletoe. Shrub par. 



73 V. PAUCIFLORUM (Lin. fil. suppl. 246.) stem striated ; 

 branches alternate ; leaves alternate, sessile, oblong ; flowers 

 scattered, solitary, on short peduncles. Pj . P. G. Native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope. From the leaves being alternate, this 

 is perhaps a true species of Viscum. 



Fewfawered Mistletoe. Shrub. 



74 V. OBSCU'RUM (Tliunb. prod. p. 31. fl. cap. p. 154.) stem 

 erect, wrinkled; branches alternate; leaves opposite, elliptic, 

 veinless, unequal. Jj . P. G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 

 Flowers and fruit unknown. 



Obscure Mistletoe. Shrub. 



75 V. ANTA'RCTICUM (Forst. prod. no. 370.) branches un- 

 known ; leaves oblong or ovate, narrowed at both ends, obtuse, 

 nerveless; racemes terminal, articulated, usually containing 5 

 flowers. ^ . P. G. Native of New Zealand, parasitical on trees. 

 Willd. spec. 4. p. 39. 



Antarctic Mistletoe. Shrub par. 



76 V. KCEMPFE'RI (D. C. prod. 4. p. 285.) T? . P. G. Native 

 of Japan, at Mikawaksei, Koempf. am. ex. 785. where it is 

 called Garni Maatz. V. album, Thunb jap. p. 64. but it differs 

 from V . album in the spikes being axillary, in the berries being 

 reddish, and in the leaves being 1 -nerved. 



Kcempfer's Mistletoe. Shrub par. 



N. B. V. RU'BRUM, Burm. fl. ind. 311. is certainly not a 

 species of Viscum, but perhaps one of Hedera. V. CAPILLA'RE 

 and V. LIGULA'TUM, Blum, bijdr. 667. are species of Psilbtis. 

 V. TERRES'TRE, Lin. spec. 1452. is Lysimachia stricta. V. FLA- 

 VE'SCENS, Comm. is Misodendron piinctulatum. 



Cult. None of the species of Mistletoe are cultivable in gar- 

 dens, except the common Mistletoe, whose culture and propa- 

 gation are treated of under that species. 



II. ARCEUTHO'BIUM (from a P Ktv6o S , arkeutlws, the juni- 

 per, and /3tou), bioo, to live ; in reference to the plant being para- 

 sitical on Juniperus Oxycedrus). Bieb. fl. taur. suppl. p. 629. 

 Hook. fl. bor. amer. 1. p. 277. Viscum species, D. C. fl. fr. 

 ed. 3. no. 3400. 



LIN. SYST. Dioecia, Di-Tetr&ndria. Flowers dioecious. Male 

 ones sessile ; calyx none ; corolla monopetalous, 2-3, rarely 

 4-parted, tough, and fleshy : segments ovate, concave, spread- 

 ing ; stamens 2-3-4 ; anthers sessile, fixed in the middle of the 

 segments, free, nearly globose, 1 -celled, membranous, dehiscing 

 transversely ; ovarium none, but in its stead there is a small 

 2-3-4-lobed gland. Female flowers on short pedicels ; calyx 

 oval, compressed, fleshy, bidentate, almost covering the ovarium, 

 which is one ovulate, and adnate to it ; corolla, style, and sta- 

 mens none ; stigma small, obscurely lobed. Berries narrow, ob- 

 ovate, terete, 1 -seeded, on short pedicels. Seed immersed in 

 viscid pellucid pulp, fixed to the upper part of the cell, pendant, 

 obovately cylindrical, acuminated at the base ; integument thin ; 

 albumen fleshy. Embryo immersed, slender, cylindrical, placed 

 towards the base of the seed; radical turned to the hilum of the 

 seed. A small, leafless, rather fleshy, proliferous branched 

 shrub, parasitical on resiniferous trees, in Middle Europe and 

 North America ; branches opposite, bluntly tetragonal, articu- 

 lated in the manner of Salicornia ; joints sheathing above, and 

 somewhat pelviform. Flowers terminal and lateral, usually by 

 threes, small, and conspicuous. 



1 A. OXYCE'DRI (Bieb. fl. taur. suppl. p. 629. Hook. fl. bor. 

 amer. 1. p. 278. t. 99.) Jj . P. H. Native from Spain, near Les- 

 curial, to Iberia, near Tiflis and Gandscha, on Juniperus Oxyce- 

 drus ; and of North America, on the west side of the Rocky 

 Mountains, on Pinus ponderosa ; and from the Spoken River to 

 the west side of the Rocky Mountains, on Pinus Banksiana, in 

 lat. 47, to the Rocky Mountains and thence to Hudson's Bay 

 on the east, in lat. 57. In America the female plants grow on 

 Pinus Banksiana, and the male ones on Pinus ponderosa. Razou- 

 mowskia Caucasica, Hoffm. hort. mosq. 1808. intr. no. 1. f. 1. 

 Viscum Oxycedri, D. C. fl. fr. ed. 3. no. S400. Stev. soc. mosq. 

 4. p. 71. Bieb. fl. taur. 2. p. 406. Viscum in Oxycedro, Clus. 

 hist. 1. p. 39. Lob. icon. 2. p. 2-3. f. 2. This is a very sin- 

 gular parasitical plant. The American plants become yellowish 

 when dried, and the European ones become blackish-green. 



Red-cedar Arceuthobium. Shrub par. 



Cult. This curious plant is not cultivable, unless the trees or 

 shrubs on which it grows could be imported with the plant 

 growing upon them. 



III. MISODE'NDRUM (from fii<rot, misos, disdain, and 

 SevSpor, dendron, a tree ; trees with neither appearance nor 

 beauty). Banks, ined. D. C. coll. mem. 6. no. 2. t. 11 and 12. 

 prod. 4. p. 285. 



