Arceuthobium Oxycedri
Abstract
With Plate X. A. much has already been written on this genus SO Loranthaceae that many readers be anything newofto the of the Annals will no doubt be surprised that there should be said on the subject. Indeed I intended at the outset of this investigation to confine my remarks to the mechanism of dehiscence of the fruit, but an examination of the plant led me further, especially as the published accounts of the plant differ from my own observations in some important particulars. I suppose the reader to be acquainted with the characters of the plant, of which a technical description, extracted from the Genera Plantarum of Bentham and Hooker, will be found on the next page. This paper begins with a description of the contents of the ovary as seen by myself, followed by its comparison with the observations of different investigators of the characters of Arcetitkobuim.a.nd other Achlamydospermeae; after which the endeavour is made to assign to the structures in the ovary their morphological values. Descriptions of the structure of the fruit and, as a result, of its peculiar mode of "dehiscence follow naturally. The arrangement of the parts of the expanded male flower as