PL ex. cal. 4 1* . L O R A N T HIDE M . 264. Viscum. 493 
voted to the druidical religion ; and the loranthus grows 
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. Moscatelh 
Calyx 4 or 5-cut ; bracteae 2 or 4, scalelike ; petals 0 ; 
stamens 8 or 10, alternating with the lobes of the calyx; 
anthers roundish ; styles 4 or 5 ; berry globular, umbili- 
cated, 4 or 5-celled ; cells 1 -seeded .—Stem herbaceous; 
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 furnariee bulbosae, Rail Syn. 261, 1. 
Radix cava viridi flore, Gcr. em. 1091, 10. 
Ranunculus nemorosus, Moschatella dictus, Park. 226. 
Alabastritis, sive denlaria minima, Park . 621. 
Adoxa moschatellina, Lin. S. P. 327. 
Small bunnikens holewort. 
Shady places ; perennial ; April and May. 
Root creeping, scaly ; flowers greenish. — An anomalous 
plant scarcely referable to this or any other family. 
Fam. X. 45. UMBELLIFERZE. Jussieu. Umbellate, 
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 ; vittce resinbearing, aromatic, enclosed in the epi- 
carp under the vallecules and commissures, or in the mem- 
branaceous endocarp ; seed inverted ; perisperm horny ; 
coreulum small, straight; radicle above; cotyledons linear, 
