Chak Chet > Bac b5 tay 
OP the Beech T'ree. “om Biss 
The Names. 
T is called in Greek s&dn Oxya (and not gnyis, asfome would have it) ecanfe 
568 sa "Adam in Eden : Or, Pee: : 
“fs 
~ ia 
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itis Scsfima, as Gaxa tranflates it, that is, in laminas {ciffilis, apt to cleave ine os 
,to Trenchers,or che like,for though px72; was fo long miffaken for the BeechT ree, ; 
that Fagus became the common Latin name thereof, and fo continueth, yet Dale. 
chamspins hath plainly detected it to be akind of Oake,.whofe Acrons are fitterfor 
food than the Maft of Beech, the Etymology thereof being xa» cs garyar, ab efca vel 
: 
glith, becaule Deere delight to feed thereon, 
‘The Form. | y 
efu. The,Fruit is called in Latin Waces Fags, Beech- Mat, and Buck MaftinEn 
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~The Beech Tree groweth to be of a great and tall fature, fpreading the boiighs a é 
and brances on pety fide, fothatit maketh a very large and pleafant fhadow, if 
the faid boughs 
friooth white bark, as the body alfo is, fo that any thing: may eafily becut there. : _ 
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efpecial notice of it, yea formerly many went to it (thong) 
he way) tocut their names upon its fmooth bark, fo 
gow letters, that 
nd of April, or the beginning of Aday for the mof patt,and the A4aft or Frait is, 
The Leaves, B 
_ Running Water, an 
thereishardly any fpace left. Itbloometh inthe 
