out: But the bark decocted in common water, to almost the consistence
of a syrup, adding a third part of _aqua vitae_, is a most admirable
remedy for the _ischiadicae_ or hip-pain, the place being well rubb'd and
chaf'd by the fire. Other wonderful cures perform'd by the liquor, &c.
of this tree, see Mr. Ray's _History of Plants_, lib. XXV. cap. 1. sect.
5. and for other species of the elm, his Supplement, tom. III. _ad cap.
De Ulmo._ tom. II. p. 1428.

FOOTNOTES:

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Ut viror est ulmo laetus, ramique comantes,
Arduus, alta petens & levi cortice truncus.
Ulmum adhibe ordinibus, quoties sudenda per hortum,
Sunt serie spatia ingenti, texendaque totis
AEstivos contra soles umbracula campis:
Una alias inter texendis aptior ulmus
Marginibus spatiorum, exornandoque vireto.
Seque adeo series, plano super aequore, tendat
Ulmorum tractu longo; quantum ipsa tuentum
Lumina, vel gressus valeant lustrare sequentum.

_Rapinus._

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.........foecundae frondibus ulmi.

_Georg. 2._

CHAPTER V.

_Of the Beech._

I. The beech, [_fagus_] (of two or three kinds) and numbred amongst the
glandiferous trees, I rank here before the martial ash, because it
commonly grows to a greater stature. But here I may not omit a note of
the accurate critic Palmerius, upon a passage in Theophrastus,{75:1}
where he animadverts upon his interpreter, and shews that the ancient
+Phegos+ was by no means the beech, but a kind of oak; for that the
figure of the fruit is so widely unlike it, that being round, this
triangular; and both Theophrastus and Pausanias make it indeed a species
of oak, (as already we have noted in cap. III.) wholly differing in
trunk, as well as fruit and leaf; to which he adds (what determines the
controversie) +xylon tes phelou ischyrotaton kai asepesaton+, &c. _that
it is of a firmer timber, not obnoxious to the worm_; neither of which
can so confidently be said of the beech. Yet La Cerda too seems guilty
of the same mistake: But leaving this, there are of our _fagi_, two or
three kinds with us; the mountain (where it most affects to grow) which
is the whitest, and most sought after by the turner; and the campestrial
or wild, which is of a blacker colour, and more durable. They are both
to be rais'd from the mast, and govern'd like the oak (of which amply)
and that is absolutely the best way of furnishing a wood; unless you
will make a nursery, and t