300 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
day (see ‘ Gardeners’ Mag., vol. xiii. p. 206). Subsequently Mr. Bracken- 
ridge, a Scotch gardener, just returned from Berlin, has informed us that 
he saw the Misseltoe on several Oak-trees in the Duchy of Posen, about 
eleven miles on the south side of the town of Posen, near to an old cloister 
the property of Mr. Ebers, to whom Mr. Brackenridge was for a short time 
gardener. Loranthus ewropeus, a parasite closely resembling the Viscum 
album, 1 is frequently found on the Oak in the neighbourhood of Vienna, and 
is supposed by some to be the Misseltoe of the “Druids.” SENEX. 
Misseltoe.—In Leighton’s ‘ Flora of Shropshire,’ p. 491, habitats are 
given for this plant on the Hawthorn, Hazel, American Poplar, Pyrus Au- 
cuparia, Larch, Crab, Apple, and Pear. It is also stated that the late 
Mr. Dovaston caused the seeds to germinate on the Oak, several Pines, 
Cherry, Laurel, Portugal Laurel, Holly, Lime, Elms, Hornbeam, Birch, 
Sycamore, Ash, Chesnut, Hazel, Acacia, Crab, Apple, Hawthorn, and Pear. 
Mr. Dovaston mentions in his “ Chit-chat,’” published some years ago in 
‘Loudon’s Magazine,’ that he had himself seen the Misseltoe growing on 
the Oak in Anglesea. W. A. L. 
Addendum to Mr. Leighton’s Note,on Lecanorarubra.—TVhrough the libe- 
rality of Mr. W. Mudd I shall be able to include specimens of this rare 
British Lichen in the forthcoming 7th fasciculus of my ‘ Lichenes Britan- 
nici Exsiccati,’ from the Yorkshire locality. 
Misseltoe-—Mr. Editor,— Will you inform 4 Juvenile how the name of 
this plant ought to be spelt? There are some considerable variations in 
its orthography. Hooker spells it as above ; Babington has Miséletoe: this 
is the orthography adopted by Loudon in his ‘ Arboretum.’ Balfour (see 
‘ Manual’) adopts Misleto ; Montague, in his Dictionary, has Misseltoe. 
Pyrus domestica, Sm.—Allow me to make two or three remarks on the 
very interesting article about the Service-tree in Wyre Forest, in the 
January number of the ‘ Phytologist.’ After reading Gerarde’s chapter 
«Of the Service-tree,’’ I am inclined to think that he means P. torminalis 
only, when he writes—‘ These trees are found in woods and groves in 
most places of England ....In Kent rr groweth in great abundance.” 
Had P. domestica abounded when Gerarde wrote his ° Herbal,’ it would 
hardly have disappeared when Johnson published his edition of that work, 
or when Parkinson composed his ‘ Theatre of Plants.’ It is due to Hudson 
to remark, that he prefixes an asterisk to his description of P. domestica. 
A passage in Parkinson’s ‘ Paradisus’ seems not only to decide the ques- 
tion against the native origin of this tree, but to record by whom it was 
introduced into this country. At page 567 of the book referred to, Par- 
kinson mentions four kinds of Service-trees. Two of these (P. ducuparia 
and Aria), he tells us, are not cultivated, and therefore “both of these 
wilde kindes wee leave for another worke (the ‘ Theatre’), and here de- 
clare unto you onely those two sorts are noursed up in our Orchards.” 
These two sorts are P. torminalis and domestica; of this latter he says, 
«¢ The other kinde, which is more rare with us, and brought into this land 
by John Tradescante, heretofore often remembred,” ete. The Trades- 
eants were gardeners to Queen Elizabeth and Charles [.; they appear 
