Fœlix illa ætas mundi, justissima nymphe, Cùm dabat umbra domum vivam tua, cùm domus ipsa Deciduâ dominos pascebat fruge quietos, Soláque præbebant sylvestria poma secundas Gramineis epulas mensis; nondum arte magistra Arbor adulteriis præluserat insita nostris, &c. _Couleii_ Pl. _l._ 6. {58:2} Cap. I. Book III. {62:1} Of the ilex and cork (reckon’d among the glandiferus) see Book II. cap. V. and of the sacred and mysterious Missalto, Book III. cap. I.; see also more of _quercus_, Mr. Ray’s _Hist. Plan._ tom. III. cap. _De Quercus_, tom. II. p. 1390. {62:2} Si quando armandæ naves, & bella paranda, Det quercus nautis tabulata, det arma furori Bellantum; det ligna foco, det aratra colono, Aut aliis alios porro sumatur in usus. _Rapinus._ CHAPTER IV. _Of the Elm._ 1. _Ulmus_ the elm, there are four or five sorts, and from the difference of the soil and air divers spurious: Two of these kinds are most worthy our culture, the vulgar, viz. the mountain elm, which is taken to be the _oriptelea_ of Theophrastus; being of a less jagged and smaller leaf; and the _vernacula_ or French elm, whose leaves are thicker, and more florid, glabrous and smooth, delighting in the lower and moister grounds, where they will sometimes rise to above an hundred foot in height, and a prodigious growth, in less than an age; my self having seen one planted by the hand of a Countess living not long since, which was near 12 foot in compass, and of an height proportionable; notwithstanding the numerous progeny which grew under the shade of it, some whereof were at least a foot in diameter, that for want of being seasonably transplanted, must needs have hindered the procerity of their ample and indulgent mother: I am persuaded some of these were _viviradices_, & _traduces_, produc’d of the falling seeds.