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colour, and stand upon short footstalks: the flowefs are male and 
female upon >the same tree, appearing in April and May, .and the 
fruit ripens about the end:of September: the male flowers are placed 
in a'close cylindrical catkin : the calyx is hy llous and 
the corolla isdivided into six oval petals: the filaments are humerous, 
(about eighteen) short, and furnished) with erect’ pointed’ anthera:: 
the female flowers are generally three together: the calyx is divided 
into four segments, which are erett, short, éVvanescent, :and «stand 
upon the germen: the corolla is separated into: four segments, which 
are pointed, erect, and longer than the calyx: the germen is oval, 
and placed below the corolla: the two styles,are very short: the 
stigmata are large, expanding, reflexed,' and indented: the fruit 1s 
of the drupous kind, large, unilocular, containing a large roundish 
nut, which is'too well known to require a description here, 
This tree, which is a native of Persia, has been long cultivated in 
this country, and bears our winters very well. Linneus deseribes its 
leaves as somewhat serrated; but this we have never observed, and: 
therefore with Haller would rather substitute the word integerrimis 
for subserratis. The wood is of a dark colour, and beautifully varie- 
gated, especially that of the root, and by being hard enough to 
admit of polishing, was mach used by Cabinets before the 
introduction of mahogany 
The unripe fruit,* which has an astringent bitterish taste, and has 
been long used as a pickle, is the part directed for medicinal use by 
the London College, on account of its anthelmintic virtues. Its 
effects in destroying worms seem confirmed by the testimony of 
several authors:> and in proof of its possessing this vermifuge power, 
we are told that water, in which the green shells of Walnuts have 
@ We may notice for curiosity a notion which formerly prevailed: Ut nuces im 
proximum annum copiosiis proveniant, mos est hodie apud rusticos quosdam, ut 
nuces perticis decutiantur. Hinc non inconcinné quidam alludendo cecinit, 
Nux, asinus, mulier simili sunt lege ligata ; 
Hee tria nil fructtis faciunt, si verbera cessant. Vide Ray, Lc. 
> Plater, Fischer, Andry, and others. 
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