The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 231
that, when the form of the seedis oval, generally one radicle only is protruded; but, when it istriangular or irregular, 2, 3, or more, appear. It is singular, that,while the radicle of almost all other plants descends, this is notthe case with the misdetoe; the young root of which at firstrises… … 210 On budding and gr-afting the Mistletoe, swells out like the extremity of the sucker of a house-fly, or,according to the comparison of Du Hamel, like the mouth-pieceof a hunting-horn. The extremity of the radicle having fixeditself to the bark, if more than one have proceeded from a singleseed,…
