63 THE MISTLETOE. 



tletoe, I have endeavoured to ascertain on what spe- 

 cies of trees it has been found, and especially whether 

 or not it has ever been met with on the Oak in this 

 country, a fact of which many doubts have been 

 expressed. My official situation has enabled me 

 to have enquiries made on this subject in the Royal 

 forests, and parks, but I could never hear of any in- 

 stance of its having been found on the oak in any 

 of them. Timber merchants have also assured me 

 that they never had seen it on an oak. Last year, 

 however, a part of the branch of an oak tree was 

 sent me from the neighbourhood of Godalming in 

 Surry, with the mistletoe growing on it. Although 

 it was not cut from the sacred tree with a golden 

 sickle, as the Druids are said to have cut it, yet it 

 served to prove a very doubtful fact. Since that 

 time, two or three other instances have been com- 

 municated to me, and I now, therefore, feel myself 

 justified in adding it to the following list of trees, 

 on which the mistletoe has been found growing, 

 and which I hope will not be considered either as 

 uninteresting, or useless. 



LIST OF TREES ON WHICH THE MISTLETOE HAS 

 BEEN FOUND, WITH SOME OF THEIR LOCALITIES. 



Oak Near Godalming, Surrey ; At Penporth- 

 leuny, parish of Goitre, Monmouthshire. Also 



