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which that same author correctly places in Oleacece, as pointed out by 

 me (Journ. Bot. ISnl, p. 357). There are in Africa species with 

 simple and compound leaves." — B, Skemann. 



Mistletoe on the Oak. — Dr. Bull has figured for the forthcoming 

 volume of the Woolhope Club Transactions, the Mistletoe Oak of 

 Deerfold Forest. " This very interesting tree grows in the hedgerow 

 of a field called ' The Harps ' at Haven, in the ancient forest of Deer- 

 fold, on the property of the Messrs. Fortey. It was discovered about 

 three months since, but the Mistletoe must have been growing upon it 

 for some years. At five feet from tlie ground the girth of the Oak is 

 5 ft. 8 in. The Mistletoe grows in one large wide-spreading branch, 

 with a diameter of 3 ft. 6 in., though it springs out from the oak by 

 only a single stem, nearly 4 in. in circumference. This tree makes the 

 eighth example of an Oak bearing Mistletoe." * Turner says, " I 

 never sawe more plentye of riglite Oke miscel, then Hugh Morgan 

 shewed me in London. It was sente to him oute of Essex : where 

 there is more plentye then in anye other place of Englande that I have 

 ben in." Warner (' Phi)itse Woodfordienses,' 1771) mentions it (for 

 the same county) as " found on an oak between Woodford Eow and 

 the Bald-faced Stag near the Ten Mile Stone : and on several trees, 

 many of them oaks, between that place and Mr. Conyers's, Copped 

 Hall." There is a specimen in the Kew herbarium labelled, " From 

 the Oak near Winchester, T. O. Duke." — James Britten. 



Orchis Militaris in Middlesex. — In the Banksian Herbarium 

 at the British Museum, are some specimens of this labelled by Sir 

 Joseph Banks, " Chalky bank above Gulch well, Harvillc, near Ux- 

 bridge." Harville is the old spelling of Harefield, but the locality is 

 a different one to Blackstone's, given in ' Flora of Middlesex,' p. 269. 

 The specimens are certainly 0. mllilark, L., of Syme and Babington, 

 and not 0. Simla, Lam. (0. TepJirosantkos, VilL). The unsatis- 

 factory 'English Botany' figure 1873 ("0. militaris" ), \v\\\c\i Mr. 

 Syme has retained as a figure of 0. Slmia, Lara. (Syme, E. B. 

 vol. ix. t. 14.53), appears to have been made up from more than one 

 species. On Sowerby's original sketch, the specimen is stated to 

 have been "gathered near Dartford by Mr. Peet, May 27th, 1807." 

 There is, however, another (unpublished) and much better drawing 

 made from plants collected at " Casham ( = Caversham) Heath, near 

 * Sec 'Journal of Botany,' Vol. II. p. 372. 



