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These are all the instances of the growth of the ViscuM 

 Album on the Oak that I have been able to authenticate, or be- 

 lieve 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. Buckmait 

 states that Mr. Baker, the then President of the Cotteswold 

 Field Club, and himself, were taken by Mr. Clifford, to see an 

 Oak near Frampton-on-Severn, in which Mistletoe was growing : 

 "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.] 



Jesse in his "Scenes and Tales of Country Life" [18443 

 states that Mistletoe then grew on an Oak, near Godalming in 

 Surrey ; at St. Dials, near Monmouth ; near Usk ; and also at 

 Penporthlenny, Goitre, Monmouthshire. I have been unable 

 to Icai'n the fate of the Godalming Oak, but through enquiries 

 which have been made for me with great diligence and per- 

 severance, I am able to state positively that the Mistletoe- 

 bearing Oaks in the three Monmouthshire localities named, no 

 longer exist. "The Oak at St. Dials which bore Mistletoe, was 

 cut doM-n by the bailiff about twelve years since, and the owner 

 of the estate, Sir Lionel Pilkington, dismissed him immediately 



