MR. H. D. GELDART ON THE MISTLETOE. 
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VI. 
THE MISTLETOE: ITS HOSTS AND DISTRIBUTION 
IN GREAT BRITAIN. 
By Herbert D. Geldart, V.-P. 
Read 31st January , 1890. 
Some discussion having lately taken place in one of the local 
papers originating in a question as to whether the Mistletoe ever 
grows on the Oak in Great Britain, I looked up a little information 
on the subject, and thought that some of it might interest our 
members, it being quite understood that all I have to say is drawn 
from various sources and is not original on my part. 
The best account of the Mistletoe and its hosts that I know 
of is to be found in the ‘ Flora of Herefordshire,’ edited by the 
Rev. W. II. Purchas and the Rev. Augustin Ley, both of them 
botanists of high repute, published in 1889, and this is largely 
based on two papers in the ‘Transactions’ of the Woolhope Club, 
one by Dr. Bull in 1864, and the other by the Rev. T. Blight 
in 1870. 
Mistletoe abounds in Herefordshire, and is recorded from every 
one of the fourteen districts into which that count}' is divided, 
for botanical purposes, by the Woolhope Club. It has been found 
there upon thirty-two different trees, viz., Apple, Common and 
American Crab, seven different Poplars — Abele, Grey, Aspen, Black, 
Black Italian, Canadian, and Ontario ; Hawthorn, three Maples — 
Common, Eastern, and Western; Lime, Whiteflowering Acacia, Ash, 
Mountain Ash, Two Willows — White and Round-leafed Sallow; 
Hazel, Pear, Oak, Alder, Sycamore, Dog Rose, Medlar, Wych Elm, 
Yellow Horse Chestnut, White Beam, Laburnum, and Walnut. 
The authors also state that out of Herefordshire it has been 
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