Flowers yellow. We have noticed it growing upon small trees of Fagus Cliffortioides, in a shrubbery where the soil was both cold and stiff, and that too in a situation much exposed to heavy winds.

Loranthus micranthus, Hook. f. A fast growing parasite found on a variety of plants, introduced as well as native; amongst the former we have observed specimens attached to Cratœgus, plum, peach, and laburnum, this species thus ranging over, and as we conceive showing a preference for, species belonging to the foreign natural orders Pomaceœ, Drupaceœ, Fabaceœ. Our opinion that this species of Loranthus exhibits a preference for introduced trees, is founded on the following observations:—in this neighbourhood it may be found growing in the bushy gullies, and in the bush itself, on trees of Melicytus ramiflorus and Melicope simplex, representatives of Violariœ and Rutaceœ; in the shrubberies which impinge upon and partly bound the gardens, plants of the two native species just named do not exhibit one single specimen of Loranthus, nor on any native tree is an example of this particular kind of parasite to be found, nearer than about half a mile's distance, in a bushy gully, yet specimens may be noticed in the garden flourishing on representatives of the three foreign natural orders before mentioned. On the laburnum the Loranthus appears to grow quite luxuriantly, a plant now four years old, the beautiful green ovate leaves of which form a thick-set bush measuring 4 feet through, vertically, by 3 feet 6 inches through, horizontally; a specimen on a Cratœgus of the same age, measures 1 foot through, vertically, by about the same measurement horizontally. Both laburnum and thorn were removed two years since, in the course of some alterations, without causing the slightest apparent injury to their parasites. In October the green blossoms of the Loranthus are abundantly produced, yielding a very delicate perfume; the yellow drupe is a favourite bird food.

Tupeia antarctica, Cham. and Schl. By the sea shore, in some places about Port Cooper, dense clusters or bushes of this pale green parasite may be observed, perhaps more frequently on trees of Panax Colensoi than on any other shrub; however, it is now and then to be met with growing on Loranthus micranthus; it is later in its season of flowering than that Loranthus; the berry is green, afterwards white, and at last changes to a rosy hue.