78 LORANTHACEAE (MISTLETOE FAMILY) 



A. Leaves pallid, acute, 3-7 mm. wide; flowers many, corymbosely clustered near the 



top of the stem; style slender. 



B. Leaves oblong, pale green beneath; fruit globose, constricted above the line at 



which the perianth joins it, W. E C. umbellata 



BB. Leaves linear or narrowly lanceolate, or those of the main stem oblong, glaucous 



beneath; fruit ovoid-oblong, constricted at the line at which the perianth joins it. 



E. C. pallida (pale comandra) 



AA. Leaves green, obtuse, 7-13 mm. wide; flowers few, on axillary peduncles; styles 



short. E. C. llvida (green comandra) 



LORANTHACEAE (Mistletoe Family) 



Herbs or shrubs, green or yellowish- or olive- or brownish-green, 

 ours parasitic on woody plants. Leaves opposite, in some merely 

 scales. Flowers dioecious, regular. Perianth of similar parts; 

 tube adherent to the ovary; limb entire or toothed or lobed. Sta- 

 mens 2-6. Style o-i ; stigma entire. Fruit a berry. Seed i. 



A. Herbs, parasitic on branches of Abies or Pseudolsuga or Tsuga or Larix or 

 Pinus; anthers i-celled; berry stalked; infiorescenre not bracted. 



RAZOUMOFSKYA (p. 78) 



AA. Shrubs, parasitic on Quercus or Juniperus or Lihocedrus; anthers 2-celled ; 

 berry sessile ; inflorescence bracted. PHORADENDRON (p. 78) 



RAZOUMOFSKYA (Small Mistletoe) 



Herbs, perennial, parasitic on branches of conifers, fleshy, small or minute, 

 glabrous; branches 4-angled. Leaves scalelike, opposite. Flowers 

 solitary or several together in the axils of the scales. Perianth of staminate 

 flowers 2-4-parted; stamens usually i on each perianth lobe; anthers 

 sessile. Perianth of pistillate flowers with 2-parted limb. — (Honor of 

 A. Razoumofski, a Russian botanist.) 



A. On Pinus contorta or Pinus Jlexilis ; staminate plants s-ro cm. high, 0.5-2 mm. 



thick at base; pistillate plants much smaller; staminate flowers dichotomously 



paniculate, nearly all terminal on pedunclelike joints. W. E. R. amerlcana 



AA. On trees other than those in A; staminate flowers nearly all axillary, forming 



simple or compound spikes. 



B. On Pinus ponderosa; stems S-13 cm. high, 4-5 mm. thick at base. W. 



R. campylopoda (snappers) 

 BB. On conifers other than PiMMj; stems 0.8-4 cm. high. C. E. R. douglasU 



PHORADENDRON (Mistletoe) 



Shrubs, parasitic on treeS; yellowish-green or olive-green; twigs brittle, 

 usually jointed. Leaves flat, coriaceous. Flowers small in bracted spikes. 

 Perianth 2-4-lobed. Anther i at the base of each perianth lobe, sessile, 

 transversely 2-celled. Ovary inferior ; stigma entire. — (Gk. phor = a 

 thief, dciidron_= a tree; because it is parasitic on trees.) 



