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Show Trines6 beatrum ‘Botanicum. Guyar.20, ~~ the puts breakeforchat otherplaces of the ftalkes, threeor foure or taaleee each partelt in a tong! browne huske, which reacheth beyondthe nut, and is partedat the end peeee Y Jagges 3 the 7 wid itis largeand round, more then the longfort, with a white thinnefhell onthe outfide, and a “i hite Pe mag coreting the kernel within which is very {weete, the wood hereof is {mooth,white, and fomewhat tough or hard, 2. Nax Avellanafativaalba maximo frndu, The great white Fillberd, ; ; This difereth in no other thing from the former, but in growing higher and bigger, and the nuts larger by the nd halfe. white like it. eeaes oe eAvellana {ativafruttu longo, The long Fillberd. This Fiiberddiffereth notin the buthor tree,in the leaves or catkins, in the Nut or the nesses huskes ce the former, the onelydifference confiftethin the nut it {elfe, which is tong andround, and hat ha prowanes feel which is diftinguifhed into two forts, the one hath the innex thinne skinne or eee seat en" aise dl ig ei nel red,and the other white, andeach of themof a {weeter taflethen the former, and the red of chis fort, better alfo Penne ee Avellana Macedonica five By xantina. Filberds of Macedoniaor Cones gi Ithough Cordus,and Gefzer gave the firlt knowledgeof this Nut to the Chriftian weaids an a at ut as fore relation, nce them(“Iufiws hathenlarged the defeription thereof by the often o) fervations ee > tt as Ci sae groweth up ftraight and call like a tree,as Cordws faith it was obferved in Adacedonia and Thracia, (oat faith, ir was reported to him thatit grewvery low) covered witha whiter and more rugged barkesbs ng = like large crumpled leaves,but fomewhat longer, the catkins are like the other, but the nuts grow many fogetiek inacl ¢ hard skin or rough huske is much more jaggedat the head then the other, and fomewhat likehe Nut it felfe is round like our woodnut with a hard fhell, che kernell within being very Jeafant like the Filberd ; fince which time Cla/ius hath obferved it to grow fomewhat otherwile, 5+ Corylus ive Nux Avellana/ylveftris. The Wood nut or Hafell nut. } The Wood Nut croweth with more femmes or fuckers,fromthe reote then the manuredkinde, yet fomeof onable bignefle, branching forth diverfly,covered witha like difcoloured barke to the former,the leaves are le(ler and rounder, yet not le(le crumpled greene above and gray underneath, the catkins and nuts come forchin the fame manner, bur the Nursare {maller and rounder whofe huskeis fhorter and whiter,and never wholly co- yereththe nut, but ftandeth therein like unto an Acorne inthe cup, and herein confifteththe chiefelt. difference for the manner of growing. re f 6, Corylus Usrginenfis, Usrginian Hafell Nuts. : ‘The manner of the growing of thofe Nuts, we have not had {ufficient inftructions of all, though wee have e Nuts of a jong cime which are as {mall or rather {maller,and brownerthen our Wood nuts, {hat per pointed wich a rougher fhell not fo hard oreafie to breake: the kernell is fomewhat fweere and white burnot fo pleafant as ours. The Place and Time, : ye: Filberds are planted in Orchards, andthe wilde nuts, growin woods andthickets, that are moift rather then drydelighting belt to growin fucha foile, the catkins as 1s {aid appeare before the Spring, and the fruite is ripe in Anguft ox September atthe furthelt. The Names a It is called in Greeke 2:Uamrnni Nux Pontica,and 2anxejd2 Nuxtenugs five parva, in Larine Corylus co Nux Abeltina, from the Country which afterwards altered and fell to Avellanaasalfo Nux Preneftina, and Heracleea ca, the feverall titles that they beare, decipher themout fufficiently,as wee and others have and can eallchem by. Tie Arabians calic Agilenz and Bunduch, the Italians Necivole,Nocelle, and Avellana, the Spaniards Aveln Trise 16. The Thearer of Planes, C HwaP,2i; 1417 ere ae manner which are fomewhat long and round nuts, bigger chen Filberds, pointed at the ends, with a rough ontet fhell fomewhat like an Almondsouter fhell but cough,and hard to breake, yet cleaving int >twoparts,and {mogrH and white onthe infide thereof, having a full greene Nix Piffada, The Fifticke Nits, mat or Kernell within, filling the whole fhell, whofe findeorpeeling is thicker andred, the kernell is very fwecteand pleafanc intalte, withont any offenfive quality therein s-this in the warmer countries beareth alfo a long crooked ftalke like*as the trie Turpentine doth. The Place and Time, Kcismaturall to Baéria,and other thofe parts neere td the Eaft Indies, and from thence brought to Syria and Egipt,and from them unto our Ewrope, where at Nii ples and other warme Countries of /ra/y, they thive and profper, andbeare fruite in the end of the yeare, but notin any of thefe colder climates. The Names, Teiscalled inGreeke mina Piftacia, of Nicander pisixia Phiftacia, and in Theriacis Vradtvioy Pfitrac ion,by Poffidonius Gisdiae Biffacia, in Latine Piftacia and Piftacium, and of fome Nwx Piftacta, Theophraftis calleth ic Terebinthus Indica, for his defcription there- ofagreeth fo exactly heretinto, thatthere can beeno doubt made of it. The Arabians call it Puftecke or Feffich, che Italians Piftacchi, the Spaniards Alboca£95, and Fifficos, the French Piftaches, the Germanes Pimper nnfxlin, and by that name they likewife call the bladder nut, not putting any difference berweene thém,as the molt judicious in former times did, the Dasch Fiftiken boom, and we in Englifo Piftackes, and Fifticke nutsof tree, The Vertnes, The Piftacke kernells be liccle inferidr in geodnefle uanto the Pine kernels for they are very friendly tothe ftomacke; whetherthey be eaten or drunke, they are good dgainit the ftingingsor bitings of ferpents and other veneinous creatures,by reafon of the thin eflente, and alittle bitter and {weetfabftance is in them + and therefore they open the obftru@tions ofthe Liver, and ; are good alfo for the cheftand lungs, thereis aifoa little aftringeént quality inthem, wherebythey ftrengihey both the liver and the ftomacke,tobe put either in meares or fiedicines : theyare alfo goodto clenfe the backe and the reinies of the gravell and ftone breeding therein: they nourifh miore then anyother nats and helpe to enereate feedeand Venery. larer, the French Noifettes, Noifellesand Avellaines, the Germanes Hafelan/z, the Dutch Hafelnoet, and we in Englijh Filberd, for the manured Kinde, and Hafell cur, Wood The Verties, nut, or{mall nut, for the wilde kinde, i p Thefe fmall Nuts while theyare freth are fweete, and much pleafing to the p sbut the mucheating of them breed headache and-windis eficin the ftomacke, efpecial!y when they grow older,bat if they bea little heated cr parched by-the fire, the oylineffe doth becomeIcfle offenfive, the parched Nuts made into aneleftuary, or the milke drawne froin the kernels with fome mede or honyed water,is very good to helpe anold cough, and being parched and alittle pepper put to themand drunke, it dothdigeft the deftillation of rheumefromthe head, {ome doe hold that théfe’Nuts,and noc Wallnacs, with figsand Rue, was CUithridites medicine, effectually againtt poyfons,the oyle of the nutsiis effectual for the fame purpofes. The dryed huskes and fhels to the weight of two drammes,taken in red Wine ftayeth the laskes and womens courfes, and fo dothttered skinne that covereth the kernels, or is more effeCtuall to {tay their termes: ifa {make be ftroke with an Hafell wand, it doth fooner ftunne it,then withanyotherfticke, becaufc it is fo pliant, that ir will winde®clofer aboutit, fothat being deprived of their motion,they mult needs dye with Paine and want-andic is no hard matter in like manner,faith 774gus to kill a mad dogthat fhallbe ftrooke with an Hafill {Licke,fich as men ufe to walke or ride withall. ae Cuwar. XX. NuxPiftacia. The Filticke Nuc. He Fifticke Nut groweth to be a tree of a reafonable largefife in the warme Countries,but very flenderly in ours di(perfed into {undry branches, whofe barke is of a darke ruffet colour, the | leaves are winged three, five,or feven on a ftalke, each whereof is broader and larger then thofe i ofthe Ath, not fharpe bur blunt pointed withus,{mooth, almoft fhining, wish divers vcines A Yy | therein, and of a paleyellowifh greene colour. I never fawit beare either fruite or flowers in eS Siewe es our Land,the climate being too cold for it; but elfe where it beareth white flowers, as Iam giyento underftand many fertogether, onalongclufter, after which come the fruite many together in the = mann Craps ORE Nex UVeficaria. Thebladder Nut S.abaftardtrorher to the Piftacke;! mutt adjoyne this bladders nut, whofe growethis not much unlike rifing up fometimes into a reafonable tree,and in otherplaces fho oting forth fundry fuckers, whereby it becommeth rather an hedge buth ro be plathed, andlet {pread, the barke whereof is of a whitith gretne colour, ‘the leavesarefive for the moftpart fet together on a ftalke, eacha little dented abone the edges, and pointed» ar the ends, of a pale greene colour : the flowers grow on alone ftalke many fet together, hanging downewards beingall white, the {mall round cuppeitt the middle, making them feeme like unto a white Daffodil : after them come fwolne ruffecith greene skinnybladders , with one or two brownih nuts, leffer then Hafell nuts, witha tough hard fhell not eafie co breake, anda greenith kernell within at, atthe firlt fomewhat fweete,; burafcerwards loathfome and ready to make one caft, yetitis eaten by fome Country people,whofe {trong Gomackes are notfo eafily provoked : the woodis white; hard and firme.Mr;Zradefcant hath brought afort from Virginia, having divers nuts in the bladder. The Place and Time. Jt growethin manyplaces of this land, both as a hedge bafh,anda ftandard treé at A/ford in Kent, and at AGilton, three miles ftom Cambridge,and flowreth in May, the fruite is tipein Auguff or September, ; The Names. . There isno miention hereof among the ancienr Authours, either Greeke or Latine, except it be taken for P= ny his Staplylodehdrog, whereot fomesoe in {ome partdoubt, becauie he faiththe nuts grow in filignis, but thefe areskiany bladders, yer chereft agreeingtohis delcription thereof, caufeth othersto thinke his filique mult bé underftaod thete bladdersithe Germanesas I {aid callit by the fame name they call the Piftacke,and therfore others ca}lit Piftacinm Germanicum, Matthiol«s in his Epiftles taketh it to be the Conlconland Hebulbems of the Turkes} butthat is faid robe a nut, of the bigrefie of both onesfifts, attd fuch thisis not, andisof great re{pect for the pleafant tafe among them. Itis ufually fromthe forme'it catryeth how’adayes, called Nux veficaria, and in fomeplaces Piftacia ylucftris, and {a Scaliger taketh it to be a fpecies of it, Gefner faith; char fome Italians at F Eecees 3 Rome; ltera ~ Virginenfis |