108 DICOTYLEDONOUS. 



2. C. Stricta. a shmb with opposite branches, glabrous, red, branch- 

 lets, quadrangular. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, nearly gla- 

 brous. Flowers in loose cymes. Petals ovate-lanceolate, acute. Anthers 

 blue. Fruit sub-globose, pale blue, with white pulp. 



White. T2. April. Common in swamps. 8-15 het. 



3. C. AsPERiFOLiA. A shrub, with erect, pubescent branches. Leaves 

 oval, lanceolate, acuminate, scabrous above, tomentose beneath. Flowers in 

 fastigiate cymes, pubescent. Petals oblong-lanceolate, pubescent. Anthers 

 blue or purple. 



White. T-2 June. In dry, sandy soils. 4-10 feet. 



4. C. Sericea. a shrub, with expanded branches. Leaves ovate, acu- 

 minate, glabrous above, silky pubescent beneath. Flowers in depressed 

 woolly cymes ; teeth of the calyx lanceolate. Petals lanceolate, obtuse. 

 Drupes pale blue. 



Yellowish white. T^. June. Mountains. 5-10 feet. 



5. C. Florida. A tree with expanding branches, with hard, close-grain- 

 ed wood, used in manufactures. Leaves opposite ovate, lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, entire, whitish beneath, pubescent when young. Flowers in terminal 

 heads. Involucre conspicuous, 4-leaved. Leaves obcordate, nerved, white. 

 Calyx tubular, 4 cleft. Petals 4, linear, lanceolate. Drupe red. Dogwood. 



Yellowish. T^ March— April. In rich soils. 



Order LVII. LORANTHACEtE. 



Calyx attached to the ovarj'- in fertile flowers ; in perfect 

 flowers double. Corolla 3-4-8 petals, distinct, or adhering to 

 the base, sestivation valvate. Stamens equal in number to the 

 petals, and opposite tiiem, or as many as the segments of the 

 calyx, when the corolla is wanting and inserted upon them. 

 Ovary l-celled. Fruit baccate, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed ana- 

 tropous, cotyledons sometimes united, parasitical evergreen 

 plants, with fleshy, coriaceous leaves. Flowers dioecious. 



Genus I. VISCUM. 



Sterile florets, with a coriaceous 4-parted calyx ; segments 

 triangular, erect. Anthers many celled, opening by pores, fer- 

 tile flowers, with the limb of the calyx obsolete. Petals 4, cori- 

 aceous. Stigma sessile. Frail pulpy, branches terete. 



Misseltoe, 



1. V. Flavescen5. a small shrub, growing parasitically on the branches 

 of most trees, branches opposite, or verticillate. Leaves cuneate, obovate, 

 nearly sessile, 3-nerved, obtuse. Flowers in spikes. Fruit yellowiah white, 

 pellucid. 



Yellowish, h April—May. Common. 



