. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XXXIX. lorantha'ce^ : fi'scum. 509 SyHonymes. Misseldine, Gui, or Guy, Fr.; Mistl, or Missel, Ger.; Visco, or Vischio, Ital.; Lega- modoga, Span, DeTiiiatian. Viscm, or viscum. is the latin for birdlime, which is made from the berries; and Mistletoe is by some supposed to be derived from
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XXXIX. lorantha'ce^ : fi'scum. 509 SyHonymes. Misseldine, Gui, or Guy, Fr.; Mistl, or Missel, Ger.; Visco, or Vischio, Ital.; Lega- modoga, Span, DeTiiiatian. Viscm, or viscum. is the latin for birdlime, which is made from the berries; and Mistletoe is by some supposed to be derived from mist, the Germau word for dung, or slimy dirt, and by others from mtstelia, the Saxon name for the plant Gen. Char. Calyx a slight border in the male flowers, more evident in the female. Corolla in the male flowers gamopetalous, in 4 deep, ovate, acute, equal divisions; in the female flower of 4 ovate, equal, deciduous petals. Anthers in the female flowers none; in the male flower 4, compressed. Ova- rium ovate. Stigma sessile. Beiri/ globular. {Don's Mill.) Leaves simple, opposite, rarely alternate, exstipulate, evergreen ; undi- vided, entire, rigid. Flowers in fascicles or spikes, greenish. Berrie's white. —An evergreen shrub, parasitical on trees. Europe; in Britain, England. ^ \. V. a'lbubt L. The -vihite-fniiled, or common, Mistletoe. Identtficcaioii. Liu. Sp., 1461.; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 277.; Don's Mill., 3. p. 403. Engravings. N. Du Ham., 1. t. \tt.; Eng. Bot., t. 1470.; Baxt. Brit. PI., t. 40.; and our flg. 925., which exhibits a portion of a male plant, marked tw, and of a female plant in fruit, marked/. Spec. Char., ^c. Stem much branched, forked; with sessile intermediate heads, of about 5 flowers. Branches terete. Leaves obovate-lanceolate, obtuse, nerveless. (Don's Mill.) A parasitical shrub, forming a confused tuft of branches with a yellowish green aspect. Europe and England, on trunks and branches of trees, most frequent on iJosaceae. Height 2 ft. to 3 ft. Flo
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