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for doing so." The Mistletoe Oak near TJsk, can be heard of up 

 to five years since, and shortly afterwards it is reported to have 

 been cut do-mi with its neighbours. The loss of the Goitre ex- 

 ample, is thus sadly accounted for by a Gentleman who kindly 

 wrote about it — "I remember about 25 years ago there was a 

 very large bush of Mistletoe growing in an Oak in the parish of 

 Goitre, but it was most sacrilegiously cut down and hung up over 

 the President's chair at the Cymrygyddian held at Abergavenny. 

 I saw it there myself as, no doubt, hundreds of others did also." 

 [J. M. K Aprill9th, 1864.] 



In 1817, Mr. Dickson, at the Linnean Society, stated that 

 he had seen Mistletoe growing in an Oak four miles from Maid- 

 stone, by the side of the Medway, but since this has never been 

 recently confirmed, it has most probably ceased to estst. 



The late Mr. Loudon, also, was shewn it in an Oak on the 

 estate of the late Miss Woods of Shopwyke, near Chichester, but 

 this tree can no longer be heard of. It has doubtless passed away 

 with its observer, and the proprietor of the land it grew upon. 



Mr. Dovaston, in Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, 

 (Vol. v. p. 203,) says he saw it at the Marquis of Anglesea's 

 Park, at Plas Newydd, Isle of Anglesea, "hanging almost over 

 a very grand Druidical cromlech." (Lees' "Botanical Looker 

 Out.") but this not only wants recent confirmation, but is indeed 

 denied by the statement in the same book, that Mistletoe is not 

 now to be found on the Island. 



The following examples are interesting, though they 

 have never been publicly recorded, nor are they any longer in 

 existence : — 



The late Sir Hungekfoed Hoskyns, Bart of Harewood, in 

 this County, saw the Mistletoe growing on an Oak in the parish 

 of St. Margarets, near Moorhampton, and used to tell the anecdote 

 that when staying at Moccas, he mentioned the fact to Sir George 

 Cornewall Bart , who would not believe it. As usual, in those 

 days, a wager was to decide the point, and the next morning, both 



