506 OCTANDRIA. TETRAGYNIA. Rhodiola, 
(E. Sot 508. E.) — FI. Ban. 183 —BJackip. 586— Matth. 1024 —Clus. i. 65. 
I—Bod. 347. 2—Lob. Ohs. 212. 3 ; Ic. i. 391. 1 —Ger. Em. 532—Park. 
“ No more the fields with scatter’d grain supply 
The restless wand’ring tenants of the sty; 
From Oak to Oak they run with eager haste. 
And wrangling share the first delicious taste 
Of fallen Acoms ; yet but thinly found 
Till the strong gale have shook them to the ground. 
It comes; and roaring woods obedient wave: 
Their home well pleased the joint adventurers leave. 
The trudging sow leads forth her numerous young. 
Playful, and white, and clean, the briars among, 
Till briars and thorns, increasing, fence them round, 
Where last year’s mouldering leaves bestrew the ground, 
And o’er their heads, loud lash’d by furious squalls, 
Bright from their cups the rattling treasure falls; 
Hot, thirsty food; whence doubly sweet and cool 
The welcome margin of some rush-grown pool. 
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Whole days and nights they tarry midst their store, 
Nor quit the woods till Oaks can yield no more.” Bloomfield. 
About the month of October immense numbers of acorns are conveyed away and 
secreted in the earth by rooks for winter food ; and hence arise many seedling plants : nor 
does the glory of Britain receive less support from the insignificant squirrel, whose industry 
buries many a winter store, often forgotten, or by accidental circumstances destined to 
furnish a supply for future navies. The acorn furnishes a familiar illustration of the whole 
vegetable design visibly existing in the seed. The cotyledons , or seed lobes, intended to 
afford nourishment to the young plant when it begins to expand in the earth, and from 
which the first leaves are derived ; the corculum , or heart, placed between the cotyledons, 
which when it expands exhibits a plumula, or little feather, and afterwards becomes a tuft 
of young leaves; the hilum, or eye, an external scar on a seed where it is attached to the 
capsule; and the arillus, or seed, coat, which falls off spontaneously. 
“ The pulpy acorn, as it swells, contains 
The Oak's vast branches in its milky veins, 
Each raveil’d bud, fine film, and fibre line, 
Trac’d with nice pencil on the small design; 
Grain within grain successive harvests swell, 
And boundless forests slumber in a shell.” 
For the dimensions of many extraordinary trees, we would refer to the works of Plot, 
Evelyn, and especially for graphic delineation to Strutt’s Sylva Britannica and Deliciae 
Sylvarum. We are happy to perceive, for the advantage of those who may not readily 
obtain access to Mr. Strutt’s larger works, that a series of masterly delineations is likely to 
be continued by the same eminent artist in the Mag. Nat. Hist, wherein it is very justly 
observed, that, “were this study to enter into the education of the landscape painter, as 
much as that of general history enters into that of the historical painter, we should not 
so frequently have to regret, in the works of our first artists, not only violations of truth 
and nature in the kinds of trees, but in their situations in regard to soil, surface, water, 
and other trees or plants.” p. 37. v.i. In one growing in 1764, in ( Broomfield wood, 
near Ludlow, the trunk measured sixty-eight feet in girth, and twenty-three in length, 
and which, allowing ninety square feet for the larger branches, contained fourteen 
hundred and fifty five feet of timber. Lightfoot. The girth of the Green Dale Oak, 
near Welbeck, at eleven feet from the ground, was thirty eight feet; and one growing 
at Cowthorpe, near Weatberby, measured forty eight feet in circumference at three feet 
from the ground, and seventy eight feet close to the ground. Hunt. Evel. with a 
figure of the former at ii. p. 200, and of the latter at p. 197. In the year 1757, an 
Oak in Earl Powis’s park, near Ludlow, measured sixteen feet three inches at five feet 
