But besides this general definition, as to what is meant by trees, frutexes, &c. they are likewise specifically distinguish’d by other characters, leaves, buds, blossoms, &c. but especially by what they produce of more importance, by their fruit ye shall know them: v. g. The _glandiferæ_, oaks and ilex’s yield acorns, and other useful excrescencies: The mast-bearers are the beech, and such as include their seeds and fruit in rougher husks; as the chessnut-tree, &c. the wallnut, hazle, avelans, &c. are the _nuciferæ_, &c. to the _coniferæ_, _resiniferæ_, _squammiferæ_, &c. belong the whole tribe of cedars, firs, pines, &c. apples, pears, quinces, and several other _edulæ_ fruits; peaches, abricots, plums, &c. are reduc’d to the _pomiferæ_: The _bacciferæ_, are such as produce kernels, sorbs, cherries, holley, bays, laurell, yew, juniper, elder, &c. and all the berry-bearers. The _genistæ_ in general, and such as bear their seeds in cods, come under the tribe of _siliquosæ_: The _lanuginæ_ are such as bed their seeds in a cottony-down. The ash, elm, tilia, poplar, hornbeam, willow, salices, &c. are distinguish’d by their keys, tongues, _samera_, _pericurpia_, and _theca_, small, flat and husky skins, including the seeds, as in so many foliol’s, bags and purses, fine membranous cases, catkins, palmes, julus’s, &c. needless to be farther mention’d here, being so particularly describ’d in the chapters following; as are also the various ever-greens and exoticks. FOOTNOTES: {13:1} Qui serere ingenuum volet agrum, Liberat prius arva fruticibus; Falce rubos, filicemque resecat. _Boeth. l. 2. Met._ {14:1} Proinde nemus sparsa cures de glande parandum: Sed tamen ante tuo mandes quam semina campo; Ipse tibi duro robustus vomere fossor Omne solum subigat late, explanetque subactum. Cumque novus fisso primum de germine ramus Findit humum, rursus ferro versanda bicorni Consita vere novo tellus, cultuque frequenti Exercenda, herbæ circum ne forte nocentes Proveniant, germenque ipsum radicibus urant. Nec cultu campum cunctantem urgere frequenti, Et saturare fimo pudeat, si forte resistat Culturæ: nam tristis humus superanda colendo est. _Rapinus, l. 2._ {20:1} Quid quæque ferat regio, & quid quæque recuset. {21:1} Pomona. {25:1} For the transplanting and removing of full-grown forest-trees, and others. See Cap. III. Sect. 10. CHAPTER III. _Of the Oak._