The (common) Walnut-tree bears its Leaves by pairs, 
upon a ftalk which terminates with a like Leaf, that is or- 
dinarily bigger than the reft : And it has very feldom a- 
bove three pairs upon each ftalL 
This has fometimes four or five pairs, and fometimes 
more, which are one while oppofite, another while alter- 
nate^altho itsLeaves appear fmaller than thofe of the com- 
mon Walnut-tree, becaufe of the Cuttings or SUJI^^es^ 
They are neverthelefs as big, if one minds their circum- 
ference taken from the extremities of thefe Slajhes. * 
The firft Pair, and fometimes the fecond are lefs cut 
than the reft, being fo only upon the circumference ; but 
the others are cut fo deep, that it looks as if the Nerve 
in the middle of the Leaf was only a ftalk. And the Cuts 
of the Leaves are fometimes by pairs, fometimes fingle 
on one fide. Thefe Leaves are fometimes forked at the 
end, and fometimes end with a point. There are alfo 
fome places, tvhere it looks as if the Leaf was torn on 
purpofe, almoft like the Angelica Cuffadenjis^ foliis quafi 
■pr^morfis. There are others, where it feemsthat they are 
double, as if the Stalk or the Nerve was Winged, j'jft as 
the Winged Stems or Trunks or CauUs alati. 
All thefe Cuts and Slaflies are not hke Indentures or 
Notches, but finifti with a Round. And notwithftand- 
ing all thefe Irregularities, they look fo pretty, that I 
can't compare them better ( to any thing ) than thofe 
Wrought Leaves, which ferve for ornaments to the Paint- 
ers, almoft like thofe which adorn the Capital of (^Co- 
lumns <7/) the Ccrinthian Order, or that which in Heral- 
dry they call the Mantles^ or that which the Botanifts 
term Acante or Branch Urfine^ which is the firft Original 
of this fort of Ornament. 
I will add here, by the by, that Dalechamp has ob- 
ferv'd an aerial Honey of a yellowifh Colour, upon the 
Leaves of a Walnut-tree, during the greateft Heats of the 
Summer. Which can be nothing but an efFed of the 
Tran- 
