17 Gleanings from the 



were not the colonizers of Wales, as has been 

 affirmed, or that they did not bring their bee 

 a. Hguftica with them." 



A few more notes may be added from the fame 

 authors' excellent Appendix, explanatory of fome 

 of our ftatements. The am and beech are not 

 indigenous in Scotland, though common now in 

 fome of the northern diftricts. They controvert 

 Daubeny's Statement that the beech was not known 

 in England until the Norman Conqueft, and con- 

 fider that by the tree mentioned by Casfar as abies, 

 he meant the " filver fir." We regard it, however, 

 as meaning the Scotch fir. The yew and the 

 juniper were for ages the only other reprefentatives 

 of the Coniferas in the ifland. The fmall-leaved 

 lime they confider as probably indigenous, if not 

 the tilia Europ^ea. It was ufeful for matting, 

 which is an invention older than weaving. In the 

 "Romaunt of the Rofe," "The AfTembly of 

 Foules," and "The Complaint of the Blacke 

 Knight," Chaucer -^ives three lifts of trees which 

 may be taken as the reprefentatives of Engliih 

 woodlands in the fourteenth century. We will 

 name fome of thefe : laurels, pines, cedars, olives, 

 pomegranates, nutmegs, almonds, figs, dates, in a 

 " gardin " which feems a fanciful aflemblage ; for 

 he adds "many homely trees," peches, coines 

 (quinces), apples, medlers, plommis, peris, chefteinis, 

 cherife, nottes, aleis (alise, Fr., the lote-tree), bolas 

 (bullace), maplis, afhe, oke, afpe, planis, ewe, 

 popler, lindis (limes), boxe, cypres, and 



" the frefhe hauthorne 

 In white motley that fo fote doeth yfmell." 



