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course, due to the opposing princiIve-- of darkness or evil The plant which furnished the deadly dart grew out on the eastward slope of Asgard, and was the sole agent known to gods or men among poisons. plants and minerals which had not given definite promise to Freya to prove harmless if used against the person of her son Baldep. Thus Scandinavian mythical lore &C., counts for the death of the latter. And, accordingly a traditional idea of the poisonous properties of the niistle- toe is found to persist in remote re- gions of the north and west of Flu rope, even to the present day. Tn Great Britain Gin the Forest of Dean1 it has been used down to recent date as 6 popular remedy in the treatment of cardiac troubles. Like the stroph~ anthus of African arrow poison fame. it proved a reliable substitute for dig itaiis. Birds which, as most authori- ties agree, act as Intermediate hosts" in the development of the mistietoe suffer no i'll effects from the ingestiop of the fruit. Botanic specialists de- scribe the latter as inferior" but suc- 'culent. Parace1sus was emphatic in It's laudation as 8 remedy for epilepsy. and his teaching was re-echoed by many generations of medical men.
  toe in the preparation of birdlime, the tale is best told in the language of Pliny, as "Englished' by Philemon Holland;
 Now. as touching Birdlime 1t is made of the berries of Misselto. gather for if they should tarry still to take for if they should tarry still to take showers of rain. well might they thriue and increase in bignesse. but tneir strength and vertue would be gon vlean. for euver making any such glew or birdlime aforesaid. Being so gather ed. as is before said. they must be laid abroad drying. and when they be once dry, they are braied or stamped. and so put in water to steepe. and left to putrefie for the space of 12 daies or thereabout. This one thing yet in the whole world is the better for putrefac- ton, and serueth to good purpose. When this is done. the said berries thus putrified and corrupt. are beaten or punned once again with mallets. in rum ming water: by which means when they skins, the fieshy substance within be- commeth glutinous. and will stick too. in manner of glew. This is the way to make birdiime for to catch poore birds by their wings, entangled there with: which fouleVs vse to temper and incorporate with the oile of Wainuts. when they list to set limetwigs to take foule."
 Tho general opinion of the classic herhalists regarding the deposition of the seeds of the mistletoe by the thrush gave rise to the phrase. familiar even in the days of Theophrastus and of Pliny: turdus sibi exitium cacat--in allusion to the fact that the thrush and blackbird were frequently caught by birdlime.
 It's Nomenclature.-The celebrated author of the "Paradisus in Sole" tells us of "the names of the mistletoe:
 It is called in Greek ieos by Dios- corides, and so Is the Birdlime made thereof also. and the ieia by Theo- phrastus who saith also that in Euboea 1t is called Stelis, and in Arcadia. Hyphear; yet lib. 3. c. 16. of his Histo- ry he saith that Stelis groweth on the North Side of the Hex. and Hyphear on the South, & so they differed one from another in some thing, which he hath no where expressed. in Lathe Viscus and Viscum, and so also the Birdlime made of the ber- ries. as are all these sorts called by all writers. that have written either of the two last, since Lobel, with their several adjunctes. The Arabians call it Debach. Dabuch and Hale. the Ital- ians Pischlo. the Spaniards Liza mor- dago, the French Guy. the Germanes Mistel and Eichenmistel and Vogellem, the Dutch Mafentacken, and we in English Missellto.
 The same instructive and interesting author gives The vertues" of MistIe- toe up to date 164O):
 Missellto is hot and dry in tho third degree, tho leaves and berryes doe heate and dry, and are of subtill parts. for some acrimOnY is In fhnnn ,uh Ich