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Show 1554 mete Ofthe Hiftory ofPlants, Lis. 3: “Lin.3. Of the Hiftory ofPlants. $22 Lobus Echingtus, $ a1 Palvta faccifera. The Sachell Date. Beazor Nuts. a5 Fruttus [quamsofie $26 Fructus alj Exotit?, Other firange fruits, a Se oS Seanee Ssoeses eae Sa ee Sse Seeoee nee eee Seeeoe = ee YD Wj;(iullaidiliyUy Goa Scalie fruits. fingle Nuthere figureddeféribed, & fer forts butthis figure better expreffes the manner of growing therof : for firft it prefents tothe view the nuts in their outer husks growing clofe together, then the fingle nuts inandout oftheir husks,andlaftly their kernel! : the thell of this nut containes in it a certaine oili¢ fubftance, fomwhatrefembling theoile of {weet almonds; the tree whereofthis nut isthe fruit growes in Ginny,and is much vfed by the people there, for they preffe a liquour forth of the leaues, or elfe boile themin water, & this ferues theminftead ofwine & beare,orat leaft for a commondrink, of the fruit they make bread ofavery {weet and $23 Kate baka. Daburi. $24 Nucula Indica racemofa, TheIndian,or rather Ginny Nut? $26 Fruitus aly Exotici. Otherftrange fruits. pleafant tafte, by Cla25 Thefe {caily fruits ate fer forth fius, Exot L2 6.3. The firlt was three inches long and two inchesabout, and had in ita longifh hard follid kernel!, with many veines difperfed ouer itand fuchkernels are fomtimes polithed, whereby they become white, and then their blacke yeines makea fine thew, which hath giuen occafion to fomeimpoftors to put themto {aile for rare andprecious ftones. and The fecondwas fmall, round andfeaily, the (cailes turned their points downwards towards the ftalke, MCL CCN ofa The third wasalfo {caily, of the bigneffe very orWalnut in his huske, with the {cailes hada derly placed,and ofabrownith colour : it kernel which ratled in it when it was fhaken. table 26 The firft of the twoin theformer e was brought from Ginny, itwas ofthe bignefl and one and fhapeof a plum, twoinches long, fubftance, andhalfe broad,of a thicke fungous the outon fomewhatwrinckledyand blackifh whitifh fide, and within containing a cerfaine a few {mall infiped friable pulpe, whescin lay feeds. halfe long,an The fecond was fome inch and ured skin; an ath colo inch thieke, couered with fibres almottlike the : of in with ofed comp at thelower end it ll, Faufe Nut the of huske was tharp pointed lit cup, e doubl {rood ina at Pppppp2 payee a onaae |
