Family, Sandalwood. Color, greenish white. Leaves, alternate, nearly sessile, about 1 inch long, pale green, pinnately veined. No corolla, but a tubular calyx, spreading at the top and lengthened beyond the fruit. At its base, above the ovary, is a thick disk, and from the edge of this the stamens spring, one opposite each lobe of the calyx, their anthers joined to the center of the disk by tufts of hair-like threads. Flowers in corymb-like clusters, terminal or in the axils of the uppermost leaves. Fruit, a roundish drupe, tipped by the 5 lobes of the calyx. Parasitic on roots of other plants. May to

July.

Found in dry fields, from Cape Breton Island south to Florida and westward to the Pacific coast.