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VIII. PAPERS OF LOEANTHACE^. 
Fkom Geay’s Plants: Fendleriana} (Memoirs Amer. Academy, 
VoL. IV. 1849). 
281. Phoradendron juniperinum, Engelm. mss. : glabrum, caule articulate divaricatim ramosissimo [58] 
ramisque teretibus ; ramulis compressis ; foliis squamaeformibus counatis truncatis vix cuspidatis pelviformibus 
breve ciliatis ; spicis foemineis lateralibus oppositis abbreviatis bifloris ; floribus bractea inferiore majore et duabus 
lateralibus in*cupulam counatis ciliatis fiiltis globosis 3-(rarissime 4-)lobis. — “ Parasitic on tbe two kinds of Shrub 
Cedar (Jumperus) which grow on the hills and elevated plains about Santa Fe, and on no other tree; sometimes 
forming clusters of more than a foot in diameter and three-fourths of a foot in height. Wherever they are found, 
* Dr. Engelmann also contributed the article on Ascle- 
piadeiB to Rothrock’s Botany of Wheeler’s Expedition, 1878, 
187-189 ; lint it contains no new species. Descriptions are 
given of Ph/iUhertia cynanchoides, Gray, P. linearis, var. 
lieterophiiJ la, Gi-ay, Asclepias involucrata, Engelm., and A. 
verticillata, var. suhverfAcillata, Gray. 
A. EUPHORBiAiFOLiA, Engelm. in herb., is described by 
Gray in Contributions to North American Botany (Proceed- 
ings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. xvi. 
1880, p. 104). A. SuLLiVANTii, Engelm., is described in 
Gray’s Manual, edition, p. ag"."* 
Gonolobus RETiciTLATiTs, Engelm. mss., is described by 
Gray (Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences, vol. xii. 1876, p. 75) — Eds. 
Ma. Bot. Gar«ie|ri^ 
J9A4. 
Perianthium 4-fidum ; antherce lohis totis adnatoe multicellii- 
losce, 2^07’is jplurimis dehiscentes. El. foem. Calyx tubo cum 
ovario connato, margine integro, limbo obsoleto. Corolla 4- 
petala, summo calyci inserta. Ovarium inferum, uniloculare ; 
ovulo unico pendulo : stigma sessile, obtusum, subbilobum. 
Bacca pulposa, corolla persistente coronata, monosperma. — 
Frutices gerontogei, foliosi, parasitic! ; foliis oppositis ; flori- 
bus masculis glomeratis terminalibus ; foemineis in spicas 
articulatas breves terminales congestis, in quaevis bractea 3 
axilla singulis. 
I have examined only Viscum album, and based the 
characters on that species. 
4. P. ORBICULATUM, n. sp. : ramis teretibus ; foliis or- 
biculatis s. ovato-orbiciilatis breviter et abrupte petiolatis 
indistincte trinerviis pubescentibus demuni glabratis ; spicis 
folio brevioribus puberulis, etc., ut supra. — On different 
species of Quercus ; on Q. nigra, sterile hills of Arkansas 
{Eiigelm.) ; on several oaks, San Felipe, Texas {Lindhei- 
mer). • — Leaves on the older branches exactly orbicular, 6 
to 10 lines in diameter ; young leaves somewhat longer than 
wide petioles a line and a half long : flowers half a line in 
diameter. 
5. P. TOMENTOSUM : tomeiitosum; ramis teretibus ; foliis 
obovatis s. oblanceolatis obtusis in petiolum brevem breve 
