CALYCIPLOEJE. 57 



banks, common in Britain. A small plant, of a delicate-green 

 colour in all its parts ; stem about 8 inches high ; leaves coming 

 from the root on long footstalks, two or three times divided, with 

 deep 3-lobed segments. Flower-stalk also radical, 4 or 6 inches 

 high, bearing curious-looking little green flowers, in a globular 

 head of five, four of which are placed laterally and are crowned 

 with the fifth. Berry green and fleshy, containing usually but 

 one seed. Bank near the pools by Lisburn Crescent. Totness. 

 Chudleigh. (E. B. t. 453.) P. IT. v. 



HEDERA. IYY. 



H. Helix (common Ivy) In woods, round the stems of 

 trees, on rocks and old walls. A very common, woody, evergreen 

 climber, with leathery oval or heart-shaped leaves of a shining 

 dark green, often streaked with white veins. Flowers small, of a 

 greenish-yellow. Berries smooth and black. Woods, walls, and 

 rocks about Torquay and Babbicombe, etc. (E. B. t. 1267.) 

 Sh. x. xi. 



OED. XL. CORNACE^l, 

 CORNUS. COKNEL, DOGWOOD. 



C. sanguinea (wild C. or D.) In hedges and thickets, abun- 

 dant in the south of England. An arborescent shrub, from 5 to 

 7 feet high, with smooth red branches ; leaves a broad oval shape, 

 opposite and stalked, becoming a deep red before they drop. 

 Flowers in cymes, numerous, of a dull white ; berries dark pur- 

 ple, extremely bitter. Woods and hedges, frequent. Ansti's 

 Cove. Marychurch. (E. B. t. 249.) Sh. vi. 



OED. XLI. LORANTHACEJE. 

 VISCUM. MISTLETOE. 



V. album (common M.) Common in southern and western 

 England. Parasitic, generally on Apple-trees, but sometimes on 

 the Oak. Stems woody when old, with repeatedly- forked 

 branches ; leaves obtusely lanceolate, like the branches, of a sick- 

 Iv-green colour. Flowers yellowish-white, nearly sessile in the 

 forks of the branches. Berries white, semi-transparent. On Ap- 

 ple-trees in the orchard at Ilsham. (E. B. t. 1470.) P. in.-v. 



