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1 The Viscum Europæum of modern naturalists.
2 The Viscum album of Linnæus; but Sprengel takes it to be the Loranthus Europæus.
3 Fée questions whether this may not be the Loranthus Europæus.
4 The Viscum album of Linnæus; the oak mistletoe or real mistletoe.
5 This is not the fact: it grows upon a vast multitude of other trees.
6 It is no longer used for this purpose.
7 The mistletoe never in any case loses its leaves, upon whatever tree it may grow.
8 This is, of course, untrue; but the seeds, after being voided by birds, are more likely to adhere to the bark of trees, and so find a nidus for ger- mination.
9 The exact opposite is the case, the female being the fruitful plant.
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