"Away back in January, 1863, after participating in the battle of Fredericksburg and Burnside's 'Mud March,' the writer, along with the rest of the old Pennsylvania Reserves, went into camp at Belle Plains (about midway between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers), and there found his first specimen of mistletoe. It grew on a Red oak, and he must confess, that it was one Sunday morning that he cut down the tree to get it. He afterwards saw numbers of them through the same section, and all on oaks".

Mr. D. H. Watson notes that in Texas, the mistletoe apparently has no choice, as it is found on almost every kind of tree. It is in Western Texas that it is found so abundant on the Mezquite, and hackberry, which, we suppose, in that part refers to Celtis occidentalis - the sugar-berry or nettle tree of further north.