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Show € {the Hiftorie of Plants. 14:8 forwhichitis taken ofthelater writers :and P/vyhath writterof it in his 16.book, 16.chap, % lie isalfo (faith he) beyond the Alpes a tree, the timber whereof is veryliketo that of white Maple and is called Staphy/odendron it beareth cods,and in thofe kernels,hauingthetafte of the Hafel nit. It is called’ in Englith,S. Anthonies nutswilde Piftacia,or Bladder nuts:theItalians call it pif i Salwaticke : the French mencall it Baguenandes a patre a \ rthat the Friers dovfé tomake bead ofthe nuts. g The Temperature and Vertues. Thefe nuts are moift andful of fuperfluous raw humours,and therefore they eafily procurearea. dineffe rovomite,and troublethe ftomacke,byreafon that withall they be fomewhat binding. nd therefore they be not to be eaten. They haueas yet no vie in medicine,yet notwithftanding fome haue attributed vato themfome vertues in provoking of Venerie. 1439 Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. 123 2 Corylus fylucftrisis our hedge Nutor Hafell Nut tree; which is very well knowne, andthere foreneedeth not any deferiprion : whereof there are alfo fundry forts,fome great, fomelittle, fome rathe ripe, fome later, as alfo one that is manured in our gardens, whichis very great, bigger than any Filberd, and yeta kinde of Hedge nut: this thenthat hath beenefaid fhall fuilice for HedgeNuts. ¢ 3. Thefmall Turky Nut tree growes but low,andthe leaues growwithout order ,vpon the wigs, they are in fhape like thofe ofthe former, but fomewhat longer : the chiefe difference’ confitsin the fruir, whichis fmall,andlike an Hafell Nut, but (horter : the huske, wherein fomtimes one,otherwhiles more. Nuts are contained, is very large, cough, and hard, dinided both aboueand below intoa great manyiags, which oneueryfide couer and hold in the Muts, and thefe cups aré veryfough without, but {mooth ontheinfide,” Clufive firft fer this forth (hauing receiued it from Conftantinople) by the name of _Awellanapumila ByXantina, + Auellana pumila ByXantina cum [uo frudta. The Filberd Nut of Conftantinople. Cuar. 89: Of the Hafelltree. q The Defiription. I He Hafell tree growethlike a fhrub or {mall tree,parted into boughes without ioints, roughandpliable:the leaues are broad,greater andfuller ofwrinckles than thofe ofthe Alder tree,cut in the edges like a faw,ofcolour greene,and on the backfidé more white, the bark is thin: therootis thicke, ftrong,and growing deep in ftead of floures hang downecatkins, aglets, or blowings, flender,and wellcompa& : afterwhich come the Nuts ftanding in a tough cup of 2 greene colour, and iagged at the vpperend, like almoftvntothebeards in Rofes. The fhell is finooth and wooddie: the kernel within confifteth ofa white,hard,and foundpulpe, and iscouered witha thin skin,oftentimes red,moft commonly white; this kernel! is fweet and pleafant ynto the tafte. 1 Nax Auellana,five Corylus. The Filberd Nut. 2 Corylus [yluefiris. The wilde hedge Nut. @ The Place. places : they are oe The Hafell trees do Commonly grow in Woods and in dankith vntoiled fetin Orchards, the Nuts whereofare better, and of a fwveeter tafte, and be moft commonly te within, @ The Time. ey ; ; Thecatkins or agléts’comeforth very timely, beforewinter befully paft,andfall away.in March Aprill, {0 fooneas the leaues come forth : the Nuts be ripe in Auguft. pace : ; a, The Names, that 1s;.Nux Pontica , oa Oiterd This fhrub is called in Latine, Corylys : in Grecke, edwvantones, ae af ane iratick $ in low-Durch, Hateleer in Englith,H Nat: in high-Dutch, ¥afelfproperly that which errcp espaee Orchards,an but the Filberdtree : Lin huske anat he fhell is thinner. the huske, with the couered ouerover with sholly couered y wholly Pranefti. Nux Apotatha isalfo hohne Hy called vey it ‘f Latine, Wax Wax Ponticd, > tenuis Nux; P parua Nux: tsnanred Wutis -dinm Latine, he Nut phigpesce ax Heracle Hita, aud commonly N#« avelland, by which same it is vina cute oe ch-Durtch, Batet Amt: i low-Durch,wate eaten:inTetsn,foneAen se ‘ 1, Woiféttes cp Norfelles : Spanith}4xellands + in ENS }, Corpses Kell, i ; i wellands 21 ane ih, ale. tye ° |