viscum

In the French vocabulary at present this word, as I have before observed, is restricted to the mistletoe, the _viscum album_ of

Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850 Various

"_Ad viscum Druidæ_: Druidæ clamare solebant," is frequently quoted from Ovid, sometimes, and that recently, specifying the Fasti.

Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850 Various

Probably our _viscum_ plant differs from that of the Latin writers in their accounts of the Druids, which would be the _Loranthus_ growing on the _Quercus pubescens_ (an oak indigenous to the south of France).

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

At last I got the story out of them: how Rinolfo had scattered grain in a little clearing in the garden, and all about it had set twigs that were heavily smeared with viscum; that he set this trap almost daily, and daily took a great number of birds whose necks he wrung and had them cooked for him with rice by his silly mother; that it was a sin in any case to take little birds by such cowardly means, but that since amongst these birds there were larks and thrushes and plump blackbirds and other sweet musicians of the air, whose innocent lives were spent in singing the praises of God, his sin became a hideous sacrilege.

The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza Rafael Sabatini 1912