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VISCUM, L. 
lowers unisexual. Calyx-limb inconspicuous or rarely forming 
an obsolete line. Petals 3 to 5, very short, having the i eee 
Satiinkies and opporite Lah or leafless. Flowers very sma 
monoecious and clustered at the nodes, or dioecious and in the forks 
of the branches. 
* Leafy preter Tetitorene lobes deciduou 
“oat terete ; obovate-cuneate, roun inded at the e apex ; 
wers in idecliet: or Pahariny peduncled cup-shaped involucres at 
the end of ee branches or in their forks + FV. album. 
Branchlets an ; leaves more or less blunt ; flowers dioecious, in 
peduncled ap Yay involucres and axillary - V. orientale. 
Branchlets terete; leaves more or less acumi inate ; flowers monoe- 
cious, in sessile cup-shaped involucres and a + V. monoicum. 
Branchlets terete ; leaves blunt ; flowers all solitary in the sessile 
cup-shaped in volucres, forming dense clusters in the leaf-axils 
or round the joints . VF. ovalifotium. 
* + Leafless shrubs. ' Perianth- lobes usually per 
Articles slightly narrowed at the joints ea conspicuity a liz, 
placed aa ribbed, ‘each article of the 
so as to appear in one p gments 
ie ar 3 berries minute V, articulatum, 
As preceding, ‘but = linear ; perianth-segments deciduous; 
berries . V. attenuatum. 
a all in ae plane and complanate, without any other rib but 
Median one, at their cra cate joints dilated in a complan- 
we cup in which the flowers rest é ret of scuiiiaeie 
* Leafy shrubs. Perianth-lobes hactased 
- V. album, L.; Brand. For. Fl., 392.—An evergreen bushy 
parasitical shrub, all parts glabrous, the branches jointed, terete, 
peatedly dichotomous; leaves opposite, obovate-lanceolate or 
elliptically lanceolate, tapering into a very short thick petiole, 
blunt, 14-23 in in. long, thick-coriaceous, in a dried state with 3 to 5 
parallel obsolete nerves, glabrous, yellowish green; flowers dioe- 
“ious, small, greenish, solitary or by pairs sessile within the 2- 
racted involucre, or the jedi more or less elongated between 
= ® flowers and bearing a third flower within an additional 2- 
smaller involucre; peduncles and thick, 1-14 lin. 
long, cious coming by 3 to 1 from the forks of the ‘branchlets 
or tr e 2 terminal leaves; bracts oblong-ovate ; 
acute, united into a boat-shaped involucre; calyx-limb obsolete ; 
perianth-lobes 3 (ee 4), thick, concave, yellowish, oblong, acute, 
