Your recent notices of the apparent union of trees of two widely different species recall the fact noted by Seemann in his " History of the Palms" (p. 105), that in India and Ceylon it is very common to see the trunk of a Banyan, or other Ficus. from which there shoots out a Palmyra palm. It is almost certain that the Ficus starts as an epiphyte upon the Palmyra, and sends down its tendrils to take root in the soil. In South Florida the same thing happens with a native Ficus, the seeds of which take root at first upon the bark of some other tree, precisely as the Banyan takes root upon the crown of the Palmyra. The Hindoos look with great reverence upon this apparent union of two trees of diverse habit.

I have occasionally in New England found a currant bush growing in the fork of some great chestnut or other tree, where dirt and decaying bark afforded it a slender subsistence. One occasionally finds a weed or brier growing in a decayed knot on the trunk of a tree. Merchantville, N. J.