312 THE MISTLETOE IN HEREFORDSHIRE. 
No. 1. The Oak at Eastnor.—It is situated by the side of the drive 
leading from the Park up the Ridgeway hill towards Malvern, about two 
hundred yards beyond the lodge. The Oak may be some eighty or 
ninety years old and the Mistletoe g freely upon it. It is most luxu- 
riant high up in the tree, where three large branches grow very near each 
other, having in each instance destroyed the bough beyond the place 
where it is situated. It is also growing in four other places in the tree, 
one fresh yearling plant shooting straight out from the main stem of the 
tree, about twelve feet from the ground. One large bunch of Mistle- 
toe, growing in a large branch many feet from the main stem, was dead 
and decaying, but without having killed the branch. The Mistletoe 
plants are of both sexes, and the females bear berries freely. It is 
more slender, and pendulous, with smaller and thinner leaves; or in 
other words, it is not so stiff and rigid, and short-jointed, as it usually 
is when growing on the Apple-tree. During the twelve years I have 
known this tree the Mistletoe has increased upon it, and the Oak is 
already beginning to show signs of suffering severely from the parasite. 
Upon the large moss-covered branches it was curious to observe the 
. great number of Mistletoe seeds which had been deposited by the birds. 
No. 2. The Oak at Tedstone Delamere. = 
No. 3. Oak at Badams Court, Sedbury Park, near Chepstow. 
No. 4. The Mistletoe is also now growing on an Oak at Burningfold 
Farm, Dunsfold, Surrey. 
No. 5. On an Oak in Hackwood Park, near Basingstoke, Mistletoe 
has long been known to grow. 
No. 6. The Plymouth Oak.—On recent authority, that of Mr. Ed- 
win Lees, as quoted by Mr. T. W. Gissing in the new series of the 
* Phytologist’ (vol. i. p. 192), it grows in an Oak-tree not far from 
Plymouth, by the side of the South Devon railway. 
No. 7. The Frampton Seven Oak. (H. C. Clifford.) 
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 hoped to have been able to give some ex- 
amples of Mistletoe-Oaks not recorded before, but, one after the other, 
they failed me, and I have had, on the contrary, to reduce those before 
known to this small number. All the other instances recorded in 
books have mostly ceased to exist, either from the removal of the Oaks 
or the death of the Mistletoe in them. 
