15S The Natural Hi/lory t 



Jbire the Rubws Id&m, Framboife, or Rafp-berry bufh, grows 

 plentifully enough among the woods and hills: and the Oxya- 

 cantha, or Barberry-buflh, between Vpper and Nether Kiddington. 



43. Thus having difpatch'd both Herbs and Shrubs, I come 

 at length to the Trees, whereof I have met with but one undefcri- 

 bed, and that a narrow leaved Elm, which alfo being fmooth, juft- 

 ly defcrves the name oSVlmws folio anguflo glabro, wherein it dif- 

 fers not only from the Vlmus minor of Parkinjon and Gerard, but 

 alfo from their Vlmws folio glabro, whofe Leaves they fay are no- 

 thing fo large as the Wycb Hafel, but neareft in bignefs, and exact- 

 ly in the figure of the common Elm \ whereas ours are much lefs, 

 and of a quite different/gar* ; being narrow, and having a pe- 

 culiar kind of pointed ending, as exa&ly exprefTed in Tab. 10. 

 Fig. 1 . Of thofe there are plenty in the Avenues to the Honfe of 

 the Honorable the Lady Cope, the Relift of the moft Ingenious 

 Sir Anthony Cope ofHanwell, where there is a whole Walk of them 

 planted in order, befide others that grow wild in the Coppices of 

 the Park. 



44. As for Trees either not noted, or anyway doubted, I 

 have met with none here : but of Trees remarkable for fome un- 

 ufual accident attending them, there are feveral worthy notice. 

 For of Oaks-, though I found none fo prodigious as fome men- 

 tion 'd by the Learned and Ingenious John Evelyn Efq; in his dif- 

 courfe of Forres! Trees h ; yet there is one between Nuneham- 

 Courtney and Clifton, that fpreads from boughs end to boughs 

 end, 81 foot, in circumference fuppofingthe boughs to fpread 

 uniformly 243, fhading 560 fquare yards of ground; under 

 which allowing three fquare yards for a horfe or other beafi, and 

 two fquare feet for a man ; 1 86 of the former, and 2420 of the 

 latter, may be (helter'd from the injuries either of fun or rain. 



45 . Yet there is a fomwhat bigger Oakxhzn that, at Magdalen 

 College, near the Gate of the Water-walk?-, whofe boughs (hoot 

 from the boal fifteen or fixteen yards, which fuppofing they did 

 fpread of equal length from the trunk, like the rays of a circle ; 

 the content of ground on which it would drop, would be no lefs 

 than 768 fquare yards, whereof allowing as before, three fquare 

 yards of ground for a horfe to ftand on (three yards long, and 

 one yard broad, feeming a competent proportion) there might 



t> Difcourfeof Forreft Trees, cap. 30. 



2<;6 horfe s 



