THE MISTLETOE-OAK OF LLANGATTOCK LINGOED. 



Quercus Sessilifora — Viscum album, fam : 

 This interesting tree grows at the Hendre, Llangattock Lingoed, 

 Monmouthshire, on an estate belonging to Miss Davies, of Usk. The Oak 

 grows in the hedgerow of a narrow coppice by a lane side. It is probably not 

 more than 80 years old, and at five feet from the ground has a circumference 

 of 4ft. 7in. The Mistletoe shoots out by a single stem from the underside of 

 a branch about the middle of the tree at four feet from the main trunk. It 

 is not vigorous in growth but forms a thin straggling bunch, with long 

 joints and drooping stems. This tree makes the ninth example of an Oak 

 bearing Mistletoe in Great Britain. 



