Quatuor ex lignis domini crux dicitur esse, &c.
Pes crucis est cedrus, corpus tenet alta cupressus;
Palma manus retinet, titulo lætatur oliva.

[54:1] And therefore were joyners called intestinary. See Leg. 2. Cod. Theodos.

[57:1]

...............Et quernâ glande repasta
Æquâsse annosas vivendo corpora Quercus.

[58:1]

Fœlix illa ætas mundi, justissima nymphe,
Cùm dabat umbra domum vivam tua, cùm domus ipsa
Deciduâ dominos pascebat fruge quietos,
Soláque præbebant sylvestria poma secundas
Gramineis epulas mensis; nondum arte magistra
Arbor adulteriis præluserat insita nostris, &c.
Couleii Pl. l. 6.

[58:2] Cap. I. Book III.

[62:1] Of the ilex and cork (reckon’d among the glandiferus) see [Book II. cap. V.] and of the sacred and mysterious Missalto, Book III. cap. I.; see also more of quercus, Mr. Ray’s Hist. Plan. tom. III. cap. De Quercus, tom. II. p. 1390.

[62:2]

Si quando armandæ naves, & bella paranda,
Det quercus nautis tabulata, det arma furori
Bellantum; det ligna foco, det aratra colono,
Aut aliis alios porro sumatur in usus.
Rapinus.