WALNUT.-JUGLANS. 



In Botany., a Genus of the Moimcia Polyandria 



Class. 



THE walnut-tree is evidently a native of the 

 northern parts of Persia and China, where 

 it grows wild; and the Grecian names for 

 this fruit, Persicon and Basilicon, Persian or 

 Royal Nut, bespeak it to have been brought 

 from Persia, either by the monarchs of 

 Greece themselves, or sent thither from the 

 kings of Persia. According to Pliny's ac- 

 count, book 15, chap. 22, " the Greeks after- 

 wards called them caryon, on account of the 

 heaviness of the head which their strong smell 

 caused." 



" Walnuts were first brought into Italy by 

 Vitellius, a little before the death of Tiberius 

 the emperor; and the Romans," continues 

 Pliny, "honoured them with the name of 



