[2764] See B. xxvii. c. 66. The Calcitrapa stellata of Lamarck. Fée remarks that Pliny has committed a great error, in making it a parasite of the Spina fullonia. Dioscorides only says that the two plants grow in the same spots.
[2765] The Viscum Europæum of modern naturalists.
[2766] The Viscum album of Linnæus; but Sprengel takes it to be the Loranthus Europæus.
[2767] Fée questions whether this may not be the Loranthus Europæus.
[2768] The Viscum album of Linnæus; the oak mistletoe or real mistletoe.
[2769] This is not the fact: it grows upon a vast multitude of other trees.
[2770] It is no longer used for this purpose.
[2771] The mistletoe never in any case loses its leaves, upon whatever tree it may grow.
[2772] 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 germination.
[2773] The exact opposite is the case, the female being the fruitful plant.