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- “Hiker’s Notebook:
Mistletoe.” Sierra Club’s
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http://www.mwrop.org/W_Needham/Mistletoe_041226.htm - "New light on old Christmas traditions." BBC News.
December 20, 1999.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/572370.stm - Perry, Leonard. “A Kiss Under the Mistletoe.” University of Vermont Extension Department of Plant and Soil Science.
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“Parasitic plant’s popularity rooted in myths, legends.” The Bay Journal. December 1994, Vol. 4, Issue 9.
http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=2314 - Saupe, Stephen G. “Parasites
are Welcome for Christmas.” Sagatagan
Seasons, Winter 2002. http://www.employees.csbsju.edu/ssaupe/essays/mistletoe.htm
