334 "'^he Trees of Great Britain and Freland 



in mistletoe oaks ; and it will be observed in the list which follows that there are 

 none reported in the northern half of Great Britain. 



The subject has been recently studied by M. H. Gadeau de Kerville,^ who 

 records in Normandy alone no less than 26 mistletoe-bearing oaks, living or recently 

 felled, of which a list with exact particulars of their locality is given, pp. 298-301. 

 An excellent illustration of one of the finest of these growing on the farm of Bois, 

 at Isigny-le-Buat, Department of Manche, shows a large and well-shaped tree, about 

 60 feet by 16 feet, of the pedunculate variety, which is covered with tufts of 

 mistletoe, some of them growing on the trunk, and of very large size. M. de Kerville 

 estimates the age of this tree at 200 to 300 years, and says that it has begun to 

 deteriorate, as the dead branches show. M. Eugene Ormont states that a tuft of 

 mistletoe of about a foot in length, which he examined on an oak, was eleven years 

 old and seemed slower in its growth and yellower in colour than mistletoe growing 

 on the apple. 



List of reported Mistletoe-bearing Oaks in England* 



Locality. 

 Bredwardine, Hereford, 



Moccas Park, do., 



Woodbury Wood, do., 



Tedstone Delamere, do.. 



Haven in the forest of Deerfold, do., 



Badham's Court, near Chepstow, Monmouth, 



Near the Hendre, Llangattock, do., 



Eastnor Castle, Worcestershire, 



Lindridge, Worcestershire, 

 Frampton-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, 



Knightwick Church, Worcester, 

 Plasnewydd, Anglesea, in Marquis of Angle- 

 sea's Park, 

 Hackwood Park, Basingstoke, Hants, 

 Lee Court, Kent, 



Burningfold Farm, Dunsfold, Surrey, 

 Bodlam's Court, Sunbury Park, do., 

 Shottesham, Norfolk, 



Alderley, Norfolk, 



Not far from Plymouth, by side of S. Devon 



railway. 

 Near Cheltenham, 



Seven miles from Godalming, 



' Les Vieux arbrts de la Normandie, pt. iv. (1905). 



* Sir Herbert Maxwell in Memories of the Months, p. 285, mentions the existence of mistletoe-bearing oaks at Stoulton in 

 Worcestershire, in Sherwood Forest, Windsor Forest, and Richmond Park. 



