144 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
lerandi, ditch near Anstis Cove ; Chenopodium rubrum, New Cut ; Humulus 
Lupulus, Newton St. Cyr’s; Neottia spiralis, Scilla autumnalis, both plen- 
tiful on Babbicombe Downs; Polypodium vulg., var. hibernicum, Moore, 
Berry Pomeroy ; Lastrea spinosa, Newton St. Cyr’s ; Asplenium Adiantum- 
nigrum, var. acutum, Combe; Lastrea multiflora, Berry Pomeroy, very fine ; 
Oayria reniformis, under the walls of Teigngrace Church. At Alphington, 
near Ottery St. Mary (in June, 1855), I found a dwarf form of L. mudti- 
flora in fruit, the fronds of which were scarcely three inches in length. 
Sir,—Your May number of the ‘ Phytologist’ only reached me with 
three others yesterday. I observed in p. 23 inquiry about an Hypericum, 
which is an old acquaintance, and not considered a British plant; the 
flowers are not yet out, but are very small and insignificant, smaller than 
the perforatum. The plant is an outcast from some garden further up 
our valley, and has established itself. There are no others in the neigh- 
bourhood. J. M. TatHam. 
Settle, 3, 8, 1855. ; 
Misseltoe of the Oak.—The Misseltoe of the South of Europe, or the 
Viscum of the ancients, is undoubtedly the same plant as that which grows 
principally on Quercus Cerris,and which Linneeus named Loranthus europeus. 
This plant however is not met with north of the Alps, nor in the west of 
Europe. The only plant like it which grows in these parts is the common 
Misseltoe (Viscum album). Nearly all botanists agree that this plant is 
never found growing on Oaks ; whilst we know, from the mythology of the 
Celtic and German nations, that the Oak-Misseltoe was the one, and the 
only one, regarded with veneration. . . . An Englishman of the name of 
Beaton states that he once found the common Misseltoe on an Oak im the 
neighbourhood of Ledbury, and that he succeeded in making it grow on 
Oaks. It is possible that the veneration with which the Oak-Misseltoe was 
regarded was connected with its rarity. (Linnea.) We have heard of 
Viscum album being gathered from the Oak near Hasgelmere, in Surrey. 
Can any of our readers confirm this hearsay ? 

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nication) ; Hewett C. Watson, F.L.S.; T. A. Cox; Joseph Woods, F.L.8.; 
C. 8. Parker; Robert Kennedy; John Lloyd; J. E. Sowerby; Thomas 
Moore, F.L.8.; D. Stock; W. Matthews, jun.; E. Bourgeau; T. W. 
Gissing; Miss Hutton; Maxwell T. Masters, F.L.S. 

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