excellent " Flora of Syria," gives as its range, Central 

 and Southern Palestine, where I ha%^e myself collected it 

 on Olive trees, and there are specimens in the Kew Her- 

 barium from the Garden of Gethsemane, from the Temple 

 area in Jerusalem, from Nablous, and from Moab. As in 

 Spain, so in Syria, it sometimes is found on a Cratasgus. 



In foliage and female flowers V. cruciatum closely re- 

 sembles V. album, which is also both a Spanish and Syrian 

 plant, but the large male flowers at once distinguish 

 V. cruciatum. Stress has been laid on the more distinct 

 nerves of the leaves of the latter, but in a dried state 

 V, album is almost as strongly nerved. The colour of 

 the fruit, white in album, and dull red in cruciatum, is 

 distinctive. 



It is due to the skill of the Hon. Charles Ellis, of Fren- 

 sham Hall, Shottermill, Haslemere, in grafting the seeds of 

 Viscum cruciatum on Olive plants, that I owe the means of 

 figuring this interesting plant, of which he has sent living 

 plants, and flowering specimens of both sexes, and 

 fruit, to the Eoyal Gardens, Kew. The secret of his 

 success was, he informs me, the keeping the bark of the 

 root moist till germination and attachment were secured ; 

 rather a tiresome job, for it means syringing every day 

 for nearly two years. He received the seeds from the 

 Consul at Tetuan, which, assuming that they were taken 

 from plants native of Morocco, indicates that country 

 as (a previously unknown) habitat for it ; apropos of 

 which I may add, that V. album has not been recorded as a 

 native of Morocco, and that it is said to be an exceedingly 

 rare plant in Algeria. The Viscum album ? of Munby's 

 list of Algerian plants is probably V. cruciataim, for Mr. 

 Munby, who was an excellent British botanist, must have 

 known the true V. album well. He probably never saw 

 the fruit of his Algerian plant. Mr. Ellis informs me that 

 the Olive plants which formed the stocks were seedlings 

 which arrived from the Riviera at the same time as the 

 Viscum seeds ; and that he is prosecuting his experiments 

 with the seeds of a red-berried Loranthus from the Trans- 

 vaal, and they have germinated with him on Olive and 

 Hawthorn. Of two plants of V. cruciatum, presented by 

 Mr. Ellis to the Royal Gardens, the female has more slender 

 branches, and smaller, narrower, thinner leaves. 



