JANUARY. 49 



mistletoe may be often found clustered in threes, this 

 may probably have enhanced their esteem for the 

 "celestial plant." 



Having been myself a frequent mistletoe hunter, 

 though certainly not robed in the mystic habiliments 

 of " Jack-in-the-green," or as a white-robed Arch- 

 Druid, -I shall now just state the various trees that I 

 have actually seen studded with the hallowed mirth- 

 inspiring mistletoe. 



THE APPLE extremely abundant ; and why it is 

 so I think arises from the disposition in 

 that tree to form knots, a disease produced 

 from an excess of sap, or an inertness in it 

 which the mistletoe offers a relief to some- 

 what analagous to cupping the redundant 

 juices being carried off as nutriment to the 

 parasite. 



PEAR rare. 



LIME rather common, and often plentiful, 



investing the trees to the summit. 

 HAWTHORN frequent, and in extending 



lines. 



MAPLE not unfrequent. 

 SYCAMORE at Lansdown, Cheltenham, 



pointed out to me by my friend Professor 



BUCKMAN. 



MOUNTAIN ASH very uncommon. In the 

 vicinity of Ledbury, and about the Malvern 

 hilis. 



WHITE BEAM (Pyrus Aria) , unfrequent, but 

 on the rocks near the western portal of 



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