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some branches, an inch and a half or two inches in diameter. The ‘ 
price of that bunch then, the day after Christmas, was five shillings 
sterling. The market man said he believed it came from Kidder- 
minster; and that the market supply came from the west of Eng- : 
land. However, I had several opportunities to inquire of well- — 
informed business men, familiar with the imports and exports and 
shipping of England, and they uniformly gave me quite another 2c. — 
count, which, in the words of one of them, as nearly as I can re- 
member, is the following: “O yes, I know all about the mistletoe, 
“you know: it is a fungus, you know; a thing that grows on the 
“branches of trees, you know. I never saw much of it in England; 5 
“it always grows on knotty old apple-trees: never on an oak. They — 
“tell some rubbish about oaks and Druids and the sacred plant, you _ 
‘know, and believe that it is the native English thing, you know, : 
“and, particularly among the lower classes, good to kiss the ladies 
“under at Christmas, you know—a sort of harmless bounce, @ pious — 
“deceit, that does very well, you know. But I’ve seen no end of 1 
“in Belgium, on old orchards, apple-trees that are lumpy and don e 
“bear much fruit; and at Christmas time they import. immense — 
“crates of it from Belgium into England: crates of immense size— _ 
“most surprising numbers of them—and supply the whole English : 
“market. It’s just as good, you know, for there’s not much more 
“mistletoe than Druids in England now, you know.” : 
I learned also, that, according to general report, the eer 
was propagated by boring holes in the bark of trees, deep enoug 
to get at the sap, and inserting the broken berry, or the seed with 
its viscous covering. - j Isaac H. Hatt. 
10, Financial—Subscriptions for 1873 are now due. 16 would fa — 
cilitiate transmission if, along with their subscription money, out 
friends remitted ten cents for prepayment of postage for the re- 
mainder of the year. Some have sent us double the amount neces 
sary, viz., at the old rate of postage. We shall credit them with the 
excess. 
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ll. List of Botanists —We propose publishing a Directory of Botan — 
ists in the United States. Our correspondents in each State or lo- 
cality would aid us by sending us the names and addresses of thos¢ — 
known to them to be interested in the study. 5 
12. Orchids.-Additional localities are: Habenaria cristata, R. Br : 
Secaucus, Bower; Il, blephariglottis, Hook., Babylon, L. L., and genet — 
ally along the south shore, between Babylon and Jamaica, Merriam — 
—Pogonia verticillata, Nutt., Woods at New Lots, L. L., Merriam. — 
Lipparis liliifolia, Rich., and [, Loeselii, Rich., shady moist hill sides 
back of Nyack, Merriam.—torallorrhiza odontorrhiza, Nutt., Laurel Hill, 
Jamaica, L. I., Ruger. 
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