^4 MONOECIA POLYANDRIA. 



The acorns are a good food to fatten fwine and 

 turkies j and, after the fevere winter of the year 

 1 709, the poor people in France were mifcrably 

 conllrain'd to eat them thcmfclves. 



There are, however, acorns produced from another 

 fpecies of Qfck, which are eaten to thi^ day in 

 cpain. and Greece^ with 2s much pleafure as chcft 

 nu^s, without the dreadful compulfion of hun- 

 ger i agreeably to what Oi;id has delivered of 

 the Golden Age : 



Contenriq -, cihis nullo cogente creatis, 

 Arbuceos fcetus, montanaq ; fraga legebant, 

 Cornaq ; & in duris hiercntia mora rubetis, 

 Ec quiE decideranr parula Jovis arbore glandes. 

 Ovid. Met. Lib. 1, v. 103. 



^AGCJS. Gen. pi. 1072. 



-vE^SC. Cal. 5-fidus, campanulatus. Co}\ o. Stam. 



12. 

 FEM. C^l. 4-denratus. Gcr. o. Styli 3. Capfiih 

 (Gaiyx atUea) muricata, 4-valvis. Sc^n. 2. 



yivatica i. FAGL^S foliis ovatls obfoletc ferratls. Sp. pi. 1416. 

 {Ger- an. 1444O 

 Feach-Tree. Anglis. 

 In v/oods and gentlemen's plantations frequent, 



whether indigenous or not is doubtful. T? . V. 

 This tree grows very large, and fpreads wide its 

 br^inchcs, affording a grateful Haade. The bark 



is 



