\ \i LORANTHAI I 



'■ The association of Viscum wit . 

 oeive the real Btructuro, and others tin 



■I from the follow 

 offer any points of n • uiblam e L 

 showy, crimson, dicblamydeou . bermapfa 

 and an ovary containin 

 cell ; the embryo of the seed, i 

 v, having a small, superior, 

 \ -inn, mi the contrary, has small, pu 

 witli stamene or nearly 



pollen, an unilocular turbinate ovarium, ■ 



antral placenta ; of 1 1 

 its growth, of course, joon a 

 glutinous fleshy pulp, covering a membra 

 nucleus, Boated in the bottom 

 mass of fleshy albumen, beart-eha| ed, with 



tpical sinus, the summit being in 

 pellicular extension of the albumen, or em 

 and therefore averse from the hilum, and tl 



. ledons lie in the bottom of i 

 minous mass of the nucleus. The affinity 

 Banta l aceee, and the Loranthac* 

 By most bo( I b\ia family b 



I the Corn i deluding Marl 



have all plurilocular ovaries, 

 approach nearer in its structure, with its 



ration, adnate anthers, largi 

 ovary, with ;i Bingle ovule suspended from ite 

 the seed suspended, having an orl 

 radicle, and large cotyledons: to these may 

 punctate leaves, and axillary flowei I tru 

 sai.l to be yet Batisfaefc • 



I by Mr. Brown (Film' 

 the flowers are perhaps more apparent than n 



rt remely at variance wit b • 

 misled in their conclusions in regard I 

 given of the structure of il v Gaortn / 



always accurate in his lie 

 this excellent carpologist, the fruit i 

 and a soft fleshy mesocarp, which, without intei 

 what In- conceives to be a copiously albumii 

 he designates as the albumen i- in reality I 

 bard and coriaceous, its true natui 

 of as many nourishing threads 

 presence of the thin plute of true granul ir db n 

 haviug en1 



by a soft membranaceous neck i 

 its mouth like the Bealed neck of a botl 

 and i- attached firmly beneath th 

 protruded with it, by the • 

 never becomes indurated, being sun 

 trachea-like threads, which torm a puh 

 and soft This curious design for 

 and its easy protrusion from the p 

 analogy to what we find in Viscum. M\ 

 where a development that answ 

 albumen ahowing how admirably Natui 

 analogous contrivances for the pei 





