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The kinds of cannibals--Bacteria--Spring flowers--Pale, ghostly Wood-flowers--Their alliance with fungi--Gooseberries growing on trees--Orchid-hunting--The life of an orchid--The mistletoe--Balder the Beautiful--Druids-Mistletoe as a remedy--Its parasitic roots--The trees it prefers--The _Cactus Loranthus_--Yellow Rattle and Eyebright, or Milk-thief, and their root-suckers--Broomrape and toothwort--Their colour and tastes--The scales of the toothwort which catch animalcula--Sir Stamford Raffles--A flower a yard across--The Dodder--Its twining stem and sucker-roots--Parasites rare, degenerate and dangerously situated 327