A. HOLT WHITE.
For much learned lore relating to this remarkable plant, see the Encyclopædia Metropolitana. Your querist ACHE may be assured that the Mistletoe may be often found in the counties of Devon and Somerset growing on oaks, and frequently on old apple-trees in neglected orchards. A specimen of it may also be occasionally found on other trees the bark of which is rough, such as the acacia and some species of willow, when of large size. I have heard of an instance of its growing in a furze-bush.
S. S. S.
Spelling of "Britannicus" (Vol. iii., p. 275.).
—If R. W. C. will turn to Akerman's Coins of the Romans relating to Britain, he will find, at p. 36., the description of a brass medallion of Commodus having on the reverse a legend commencing "BRITTANIA P. M. TR.," &c.
The author observes:
"The spelling of Britannia is worthy of observation. Dr. Charles Grotefend thinks it is from the Greek, Βρεττανια."
And in a Note to this adds:
"That in Horace and Propertius, the first syllable of Britannia is short, but in Lucretius, on the contrary, it is long."
I would further observe, that the same mode of spelling "Britannia," with two t's, obtains on the coins of Severus, Caracalla, and Geta.