50 WILD FLOWERS OF 



Chepstow Castle, is a fine tree with much 

 Mistletoe upon it. 



HAZLE of very rare occurrence, and es- 

 teemed by the Druids next to that on the 

 Oak. 



ELM in one locality only, near Bushley Park 



Farm, in the vicinity of Tewkesbury. 



BoBiETA-PsEiJD- ACACIA - - local, though in 



shrubberies in Worcestershire I have seve- 

 ral times seen it there, as at Thorngrove 

 and Stanford. 



WILLOW occasionally. In a field north of 



Great Malvern. 



ASH sometimes very profusely. 



MEDLAR met with once only, at Forthamp- 



ton, Gloucestershire. 



ASPEN very rarely. An instance occurs on 



the borders of Longdon Marsh, Worces- 

 tershire. 



. , BLACK POPLAR so excessively abundant in 



almost all recent plantations in Worces- 

 tershire, as literally to bend some of the 

 trees towards the ground; yet on old pop- 

 lars I have never seen a single plant. 



A few other trees have been^mentioned on which I 

 have not seen the mistletoe, and I therefore pass on to 

 notice its occurrence on the oak, which is now un- 

 doubtedly a very great rarity; and I consider this to 

 arise partly from the Romans having destroyed all the 

 druidical mistletoe, for it is most remarkable that 

 though so many old oaks are recorded as existing in 



