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CALTCIFLOUjE. 
composed of about ten flowers : peduncle short, bibrac- 
teolated at the base. Flowers, small, white, sessile, each 
with a small broad-ovate acute involucellum, rather longer 
than the calyx. Calyx obsoletely 3-4-toothed. Petals 5, 
deciduous. Stamens 5, alternating with the petals. 
Ovary turbinate : style at first apparently simple ; after- 
wards as the ovary enlarges 3-5-partite, rigid, reflected. 
Berry globular, glabrous, 5-celled. 
ORDER XC VI. LQRANTHACE.E . — THE 
MISLETOES. 
Calyx with the limb short, and the tube ad- 
hering to the ovary. Petals 4-8. Stamens of 
the same number as the petals and opposite to 
them : filaments more or less united to the petals. 
Ovary l-celled; ovule solitary, suspended from 
the apex of the cell : style filiform or O * stigma 
simple. Fruit a 1 -seeded berry. 
Shrubby plants, with coriaceous greenish foliage, para- 
sitic on trees. 
I. VlSCUM. 
Flowers monoecious or dioecious. Calyx with 
the margin obsolete : in the fertile flowers the 
tube combined with the ovary. Petals 3 4, in the 
fertile flowers distinct, in the barren united to 
form a 3-4-partite corolla, with the Jobes thick, 
triangular, Yalvate. Anthers 3, awanting in the 
fertile flowers, in the barren ad'nate to the inner 
surface of the petals and opening by several 
pores. Stigma sessile. Fruit a globular berry. 
Name, the Latin designation of the common mistletoe ; 
and hence the term visooeus viscid, from birdlime being 
prepared from the berries. 
a. Leafy: flowers spiked, with the spikes jointed, and the 
joints sheathed. 
