both Exotick and Domeftick, &c. 
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Caftanea 5 TheChesnut Tree. 
The Charafters of this Tree are; 
It batb Male Fkmxts ( or Kntkins) tchiib are placed at remote ‘Diflames fremi 
the Fruit, 011 tbe fame Tree : tbe oiiter Coat af tbe Fruit is very rougb, and 
has fwo or tbree Nuis hcluded in eaeb Husk or Covering. 
1. Caftanea ; fativa. C. B. P. 4.8. Caftanea. ]. B. Vol I. Teas II. lai. 
The Common or Makur'd Cheskut. 
a. Caftanea j fativa, foliis eleganter variegatis. The Strip’d Ciiesnut 5 
vulg6. 
). Caftanea j pumilis, ViiEiniana, raccmolo ftuftu parvo, in lingulis capfulis 
echinatis unico. BaniJIer. ‘Plttk. A!m. 90. The Chinquapin Busii, orDwARP 
Virginian Ciiesnut ; vulgi. 
Caftanea Equina ; vide Hippocaftanum. 
Cedrus Libani 5 The Cedar op Li Ba n us. 
The CharaSers of this Tree are 5 
It is Ever-green : tbe Lcavcs are mucb narronter tban tbofe of tbe Tine Tree, 
and many of tbemprodueed out of one Tibereie, fomenvhat refembling a Painters 
‘Feneil: ll batb Male Flowers (or Katkins ) wbicb are produeed at remote 
IDiltances frorn the Fruit, ott tbe fame Tree : Tbe Seeds are produeed in Cones, 
mbich are large, fquamofe, and turbinaled. 
Cedrus; magna, live Libani, conifera. J.B. Vol I. ‘Pars II. 177. Cedrus, 
conifera , foliis Laricis. C. B. T. 490. Larix, Orientalis, frultu rotundiori 
abtitfo. Tourn. 58«. The Cedar op Libanus. 
There are Four of thefc Trces in the Phyfic GarJea at Cbelfta, which 
Erowing about Forty-feven Ycats, (os we have been inform’d) two of wh: 
liderable Magnitude, meafuting upward of cight Feet in Circun.fcrcnce 1 
the Giound. The Branchcs extend themfeivea more than twcnty Feet fro 
Celtis; The Lote, or Nettle Tree. 
This Tree is dijtinguijh'd frorn tbe Cberry bj its It aves, exbicb refcmble tbofe 
of tbe Neltle, and by its Fruit greming fingle in tbe Bofrn of its Leaves i 
oebereas, in tbe Cberry, feveral come out of tbe fame Bud. 
The 
