himself .( but described it from a sketch which had been shewn to him by Mr. Hill, 

 of Basingstoke. 



No. 6. The Plymouth Oak. — On recent authority, that of Mr. Edwin 

 Lees, as quoted by Mr. T. W. Giping in the Phytologist [vol. i. p. 151.] it grows 

 in an Oak tree not far from Plymouth by the side of the South Devon Railway. 

 A single bush grows in the topmost branches of a scraggy Oak tree. It is the 

 first wood that occurs by railway north of Plymouth and two or three miles distant 

 from that town. 1 am unable to state whether this Oak is still in existence with 

 the Mistletoe upon it. The authority for it however, is so good and so recent, 

 that I am prepared to have faith in it. 



These are all the instances of the growth of the Viscum album on the Oak 

 that I have been able to authenticate, or believe in, as existing at the present time. 

 I fully thought to have been able to give some examples of Mistletoe Oaks in this 

 paper, which had not been recorded before, but one after the other, they have all 

 failed me, and I have had, on the contrary, to reduce those before known to this 

 small number. 



I will now notice all the other instances which I have found recorded in books, 

 and shall be able to shew that most of them have ceased to exist either from the 

 removal of the Oaks, or the death of the Mistletoe in them. — The Frampton 

 Mistletoe-bearing Oak, as one of the most recently discovered, shall head the list. 



In the third volume of Notes and Queries, Mr. Buckman states that Mr. 

 Baker, the then President of the Cotteswold Field Club, and himself, were taken 

 by Mr. Clififord, to see an Oak near Frampton-on-Severn, in which Mistletoe was 

 growing. 



No. 7. — " The tree was a century old, and the branch, with a good bunch of 

 Mistletoe on it, was about forty years old." This example no longer exists. 

 In answer to a letter of enquiry about it, Mr. Clifford of Frampton Court has 

 politely written to say : " A large party of us went to examine the Mistletoe Oak 

 yesterday, and were sorry to find, that the branch of the tree on which it grew 

 was decayed, and the Mistletoe dead. The tenant intends to observe whether 

 the Mistletoe grows again upon it." [April 19th, 1864].* 



* Mr. Clifford wrote .igain in 1866 that the Mistletoe had shot out from the trunk of the tree 

 at the base of the dead bough. 



A FEW SUBSEQUENT RECORDS. 



No. 8. The Mistletoe Oak in Deerfold Forest, Herefordshire, was discovered 

 in i86g. See Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, 1869, p. 15, where it is 

 illustrated. 



No. g. On an Oak at The Hendre, Llangattock, near Usk. See illustrations in 

 Transactions, 1S70, p. 68 



No. 10. On an Oak at Moccas, near Hereford, half a mile west of Moccas Park. 

 Discovered by Sir George Cornewall. Transactions, 1S70, p. 317, 



No. II. On an Oak on the Moccas Estate, on the west of Woodbury Hill ; also dis- 

 covered by Sir George Cornewall. Transactions, 1903, p. 104. 



Since the date of this paper doubtless numerous other records have been found.— 

 FxilTOR, 1907.] 



