. Flowers of the field. Botany. MISTLETOE TRIBE beautiful red and purple tints. Hedges and thickets, especially on a chalk or lime- stone soil.—Fl. June. Shrub. 2. C. sitccica (Dwarf Cornel). — Very different in habit from the last ; root woody, creeping, and sending up annual flowering stems, which arc about six inches high and bear each a terminal ^tmbel of minute dark purple flowers with yellow stamens. At the base of each umbel are four egg-shaped yellow bmcts tinged witii purple. The fruit, a red berry, is said by the Highlanders to create appetite, and hence is called Lus-a-chraois, plan
. Flowers of the field. Botany. MISTLETOE TRIBE beautiful red and purple tints. Hedges and thickets, especially on a chalk or lime- stone soil.—Fl. June. Shrub. 2. C. sitccica (Dwarf Cornel). — Very different in habit from the last ; root woody, creeping, and sending up annual flowering stems, which arc about six inches high and bear each a terminal ^tmbel of minute dark purple flowers with yellow stamens. At the base of each umbel are four egg-shaped yellow bmcts tinged witii purple. The fruit, a red berry, is said by the Highlanders to create appetite, and hence is called Lus-a-chraois, plant of gluttony. Alpine pastures in Scotland and the north of England ; rare.—Fl. July, August. Perennial. 133. Young shoot of the Wild Cornel Sub-Class III COROLLIFLOR^ Petals unitecl, bearing the stamens. Natural Order XXXIX LORANTHACE^.—Mistletoe Tribe Stamens and pistils usually on different plants ; calyx attached to the ovary, with 2 bracts at the base, sometimes almost wanting ; petals 4-8, united at the base, expanding in a valveAike manner ; stamens equalling the petals in number and opposite to them ; ovary i-celled, i-seeded ; style i or o ; stigma simple ; fruit succulent, i-ccUcd, I-Eccdcd ; seed germinating only when attached to some growing plant of a different species. Shrubby plants of singular structure and habit, growing only (with rare exceptions) on the branches of other trees, and therefore true parasites. The leaves are usually in pairs and fleshy, the flowers ; but this is not always the case, for one species, Npytsia floribunda, which grows in the neighbourhood of King George's Sound, bears an abundance of bright orange-coloured flowers, producing an appear- ance which the colonists compare to a tree on fire, and hence they call it the Fire-tree. This species is not a parasite, but the greater part of the tribe refuse to grow except on living vegetables. The seed of most species is coated with a viscid substance, by which it adheres
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