492 263. ilex. 43. CAPRIFOLI ACEM. PI. ex. caL 
Woods and hedges; tree; May. 
Lower leaves thorny, upper unarmed ; nuculania scarlet, 
crowned with the persisting stigmata, — Wood hard, smooth; 
bark yields birdlime; berries a great resource for small 
birds in winter, and are used in colic. 
Fam. IX. 44. LORANTHIDEriE. Loranthece , Richard 
and Jussieu. 
Calyx 1 -leaved, adherent to the ovary, mostly bracteated ; 
bract ece 2 or 3 ; corolla on the ovary, regular; petal 1, 4 
or 5-cut ; or 4 or 5, soldered at the base ; stamens 4 or 5 ; 
opposite to the lobes or petals ; ovary many-celled ; style 1 ; 
stigma 1 ; fruit fleshy or dry; ovule i, attached to the apex; 
perisperm fleshy ; corculum cylindrical, axile ; cotyle- 
dons 2 ; radicle above, roundish, slightly elevated from the 
perisperm, — Plant parasitic ; stem woody ; leaves opposite ; 
stipules 0; flowers axillary or terminal? solitary or spiked. 
I. 264. VI SCUM. Pliny. Misseltoe. 
Monoicous or dioicous.— Calyx scaly, scales prominent, 
not cut ; corolla 4-petaled, petals short, soldered at bot- 
tom ; anthers 4, sessile, inserted in the middle of the petals ; 
ovary connate to the edge of the calyx ; stigma 1 ; berry 
globose, 1 -seeded. — Plant parasitic, shrubby or under* 
shrubby ; leaves opposite, thick ; flowers axillary, sessile. 
Viscum album. White misseltoe , 
Leaves lanceolate, blunt ; flower-heads axillary, 
Viscum, Rail Syn. 464, 1 ; Ger, cm . 1350. 
Viscum vulgare, Park. 1392. 
Viscum album, Lin. S. Pr 1451. 
Missel. 
On trees ; shrubby ; May. 
Stem much branched, jointed; leaves pale green, ligulate, 
coriaceous, many-ribbed ; head few-flowered ; flowers yel- 
lowish green ; receptacle fleshy ; berry white. — Leaves used 
against epilepsy and other spasmodic diseases, also against 
the rot in sheep ; bark and berries yield birdlime : propa- 
gated by rubbing the berries on the bark of trees so as to 
make them adhere. The viscum quercus of the ancient 
druids, to which many magical properties were attributed, 
is supposed by De Candolle not to be this plant, but the 
loranthus, because he has never found the viscum growing 
upon oak, although common in the countries formerly de- 
