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Show ak Ofthe Hittory of Plants. Thefe Nuts that haue their skinnes red are the garden and planted Nuts,and the tight Pontick Nuts or Filberds : they are called in high-Dutchakhurnufs, and Rotnuls : in low-Dutch Loode : Halel Moten: in Englith, Filbetds, and red Filberds. The other Nuts which be white are itdged tobe wilde. A ‘ forwhich caufe alfo theyvery flowly paffe thorowthe belly, therefore they are troublefomeana clogging to the ftomacke,caufe head-ache,e{pecially when they be eatenin too great a quantitie, B Thekernellsof Nuts made into milke like Almonds do mightily bind the belly, and ate good for the laske and thebloudyflix. C Jens,asthough you fhould fay Louis glans, Tupiters Acorne ; or Iuvanselams)the helping ! Baum aod of dinnersBehl Nix; or the Perfian Nut : in high-Durch, welioly Pmlz.atid nuts: in low- Dutch, Mowernoten, wallch Mote: In Italian, Nocé: in Prench, Noix : in Spanith, NueXes,and Nous « in Englifh, Walnut ;and of fome, Walthnut. ; @] The Temperature andVertues, The freth kernels ofthe nuts newly gathered are pleafant to the tafte :they area little cold, and | The Temperature and Vertues. Hafell Nuts newly gathered, and notas yet dry, containe in thema certaine fuperfluous moj: fture,by reafon whereofthey arewindie: not onely the new gathered Nuts,but the dry alfo,bevery chard ofdigeftion ; for they areofan earthyand cold effence,and of an hard and found fubftarce The fame doth coole exceedinglyin hot feuers and burning agues. D_Thecatkins are cold and dry,andlikewife binding : theyalfo ftay the lask, E +. Thekernels of Nuts rather caufethan cure the bloudy flix and lasks,wherefore they are no to be vfed infuch difeafes. + Of the Hiftorie of Plants, L1B. 3. Lis, 7 haueno {mall moifture, which is not perfectly concocted : they be hard of digeftion, and nourifh itle they flowly defcend. aan ae a hot and dry, and thofe more which become oily and tanke : thefe bevery hurt- full tothe ftomacke, and befides that they be hardly concoted, they increafe cheler, caufe head- ache, and be hurtfull for the cheft, aud for thofe that be troubled with the cough, Dry Nuts taken fafting with a fig anda little Rue withftand poyfon, preuent and preferue the body from the infection ofthe plague, andbeingplentifully eaten they driue wormes forth of the a greene and tender Nutsboiled in Sugar and eaten as Suckad,area moft pleafant and dele: fort the ftomacke, and expell poyfon. iehicctWala made in {uch adie as oileof Almonds, maketh {mooththe hands and fice,and taketh awayfcales or fcurfe, blacke and blew marks that comeof ftripes or bruifes. Cuapr. go. Milke made ofthe kernels, as Almond milke is made, cooleth and pleafeth the appetite of the ‘ . ‘ languithing ficke body. With Etbas, falt, and hony, they are good againtt the biting of a mad dog or man,ifthey be Of the WalLnut tree. Nux Tnglans. The Walnut tree. @| The Defiription, , His is a great tree with athicke and tall body : the barke is fomewhar greene,and tending to the colourofathes,andoftentimes full ofclefts : the boughes {pread themfelues farabroad : the leanes confift offue or fix fattned to onerib,like thofe of the Ah tree, and with oneftanding on the top,which be brozderand Jonger than the particular Jeaues ot the Ath, fmooth alfo, and ofa ftrong fimell the catkins or aglets comeforth beforethe Nuts: thefe Nuts do grow hardtothe ftalke of the leaues,by couples, or by three & threes whichat the firft when they be yet but tender hauea fweetfmel,andbe couered witha gree n huske:vnder that isa wooddy fhell in which the kernell is contained, being covered with a thinskin,parted almoft into foure parts with a woody skin as it wege : the inner pulp where- of is white, fweet and pleafant to thetaft;an¢ that iswhen it is new gathered, for after it 1s dry it becommethoily and ranck. G The Place. The Walnut tree groweth in fields neck , *: ‘ a 3 ; hidypon the wound. Bens both eaten, and alfo applied, they. heale in hort time,as Dofcorides faith, Gangrens,Carbuncles,egilops and the pilling away ofthe= haire: this alfo iseffectually done by the oile that is 3 9 oy si 3 preffed Sutofthen: which is of thin parts, digefting and heating, ; The outward greene huske of the Nuts hatha notable bindingfacultie. Galen deurifed and taught to make of the iuyce thereofa medicine for the mouth,fingular good piin(t attinflammations thereof. he : "The Jeaues and firft buds hauea certaine binding qualitie,as the fame Authour fheweth; yet thte doth abound in them an horanddry temperature. : P Some of the later Phy fitions vfe thefe for baths and lotions for the body,in which they haue a fee to digeft and alfo to procure {weat. Cuar. or Of the (heftnut tree. @ The Defcription, He Cheftnut tree isa vety greatian hightree: it cafteth forth very many boughes : the body is thicke,and fometimesoffo great a compafle as that two men can hardly fathomit:the timber or fubftance of the wood is found and durable : the leaues be feat, rough, wrinkled, nicked in the edges,and greater than the panic ofthe Walnut tee. The blowings'or catkins be flender, long, and greene: the fruit is inclo ed in round a rough ad prickly huske like toan hedge+hog or Vrchin,which openingit felfe doth let fall the ripe fruit otNut, This nut isnot round, but flat on the onefide, fmooth,and fharpe pointed: ir is couered witha hard fhell, which is tough and'very fmooth, of a darke browne colour :the meate or inner common high-wayes , in a fat and fruicfl fibftance ofthe nut is hard and'white,and couered witha thin skin which is vader the fhell. ground,andin orchards: it profpereth on mg" fruitful] bankes,it loueth not ro grow in" rie places. 2 The Horfe Cheftnut groweth likewife tobe avery great tree, {preading his great and large Mes or branches far abroad, by which meanes it maketh a very good ccole fhadow. Thefe bran- GQ The Time. ihe Theleaues together withthe catkins comeforthin the Spring : the Nuts are gathered in Au guft, @ The Names. Thetree is called in Greeke, xz: in Latine, Nwx, which name doth fignifie borh the mee the fruit : in high-Dutch; Mutsbaum :in low-Dutch, (gote boome, and ootelact : 9 Fre Neifier > in Spanith, Nogueyra : in Englith, Walnut tree, and of fome, Wal{h nut tree, Th called in Greeke, Keo nents, that is to fay, Nwx ‘Regia, or the Kingly Nut :it is likewife ches are gatnifhed with many beautifull leaues,cut or dinided into fiue,fix,or feuen fe@ions or ditifions, like to the Cinkfoile,ot rather like the leaues ofRicinus, but bigger. The eee gtow at Netop of the ftalks, confiftingoffoure {mall leaues like the Cherry bloffome, whtic turne | ®und roughprickly heads like the former, but more fharpeand harder : the nuts area ie rounder, * The floures of this, faith Clufiws (whofe figure of them I here giue you) come out the bofom Sithe leafe which is the vppermoft of the branch,and theyare many in number growing rpos pret~ long foot-ftalkes,confifting each ofthem of foure white leaues of no great aa e; the two oftare a little larger than the reft, hauing round purple {pots in’ their mi : es sour of the ofthe floure come forth many yellowith threds with golden pendants. The froit is conNa prickly huske that opens in three parts, andit is rounder and not fo fharpe pointed as tae |
