PL ex. ml 44. LORANTHIDEiE. 264. Vlscum. 493 



voted to the druiclical religion ; and the loranthus gro^vs 

 commonly on the indigenous oaks of Italy, and is there 

 taken for the misseltoe; so that it is probable the loranthus 

 formerly grew on the oaks in the druidical countries, but 

 was extirpated by them, from the great use made of it in 

 their religious rites. 



II. 265. ADOXA. Linnaeus. Moscatell. 



Galyx 4 or 5-cut ; bracteae 2 or 4, scalelike ; petats j 

 stamens 8 or 10, alternating with the lobes of the calyx; 

 anthers roundish ; styles 4 or 5 ; herry globular, umbili- 

 cated, 4 or 5-celled ; cells 1 -seeded. — Stem herbaceous j 

 root-leaves biternate ; scape-leaves 2, opposite, in the mid- 

 dle ; head single, 5-flowered, cubical ; top-flower 5-cut, 

 decandrous, pentagynous ; side-flowers 4-cut, octandrous, 

 tetragynous. 



Adoxa tuherosa. Tuberous moscatell. 



Moschatellina foliis fumariae bulbosae, Itaii Syn. 261, 1. 

 Radix cava viridi flora, Gcr. em. 1091, 10. 

 Ranunculus nemorosus, Moschatella dictus. Park. 226. 

 Alabaslritis, sive deniaria minima, Park. 631. 

 Adoxa moschatellina, Lin, S. P. 32T. 

 Small bunnikens holewort. 



Shady places ; perennial ; April and May. ' 

 Root creeping, scaly ; flowers greenish. — An anomalou9 

 plant scarcely referable to this or any other family. 



Fara. X. 45. UMBELLIFER^. Jussieu. Umlellatce, 

 . ?'^ Linnaeus. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, unisexual, or neuter, rarely 

 diclinous; calyx adhering to the ovary, not cut, or 5-cut; 

 corolla 5-petaled ; petals often unequal, radiating, not cut 

 or cut, inflected into a lacinule, falling off; stamens 5, sim- 

 ple, inserted between the calyx and the stylopodium; an- 

 thers ovate, nearly round, 2-celled ; styles 2, persistent, 

 sitting on a stylopodium; stylopodium dilated at bottom, 

 covering the ovary; fruit 2-partible, ovules pendulous; 

 spermapodium axile, usually 2-parted, thickened at bottom ; 

 akenia 2, vittated, or not vittated and then inodorous and 

 insipid ; vittcs resinbearing, aromatic, enclosed in the epi- 

 carp under the vallecules and commissures, or in the mem- 

 branaceous endocarp ; seed inverted ; perisperm horny ; 

 corculum small, straight; radicle above; cotyledons linear, 



