206 Of Nuts. Part II- 
A WALNUT fhaped like a Pear. Whether mon- 
ftrous, or of any Species, is uncertain. Tis two inches 
long, at one end * of an inch thick or over, and the other, 
above an inch. 
Another, with one Concave of the Shell twice as big as 
the other. 
A Third, with a Shell compofed of three Valves or 
Plates, 
A NUT, which feems to be a fort of Indian Filbert. I 
find it not defcrib'd. Of a triangular Figure, one greater 
fide fubtendcd to two leffer. The Bafe ~* an inch thick 5 
an inch and I long, or wide 3 from thence to the Cone as 
much. Of a brown afti-colour 3 and ruged all round 
about by the distribution of a great number of Fibers* 
Only the true Bafe, by which it joyned to the Husk, is 
fmooth 5 and, as that of a Filbert , cleavable along the 
middle. 
The HAZLE-NUT of New England. Neither i> this 
defcrib'd. Here is a Box of them. They are fhorter, and 
broader, than the common fort 3 the point depreffed, and 
the Bafe more producd. In colour, both alike. 
HAZLE-NUTS, fome three , and fome four growing 
together. 
The NUT called MEHEMBETHENE. It grows upon 
a fmall Tree, like a Hajle, in New Spain. Defcribed in 
(*) Lib. 3. Bauhinus. {a) 'Tis fomewhat Oval, an inch and * long, ? ds 
c 3 6 - over. Divided by a triangular partition into three Cells, for 
the lodging of fo many Kernels. 
The BARBADO-NUT. The Fruit, in truth, of a kind 
CDU&Hift. °f Plum-Tree- if>) Yet the Name prevailing, I have placed 
0/ Barb.p.67. it here. Defcribed in Bauhinus, Wormius, and others by the 
Name of AveUana purgatrix Americana f. Ben magnum 
u) Muf. Medicorum uidgo : (c) but not well. Tis about the big- 
Wormian. nefs q( a mhn The ^jj y^y^ min? an d brittle, and 
fomewhat angular. Within, there is a white foft Body, 
commonly, but fallly fuppofed to be the Kernel. For this 
Body is not divided, as are all Kernels, into two diftincl: 
Lobes, but is one entire part. Yet fo as to have fome little 
hollownefs in the middle, capable to lodge a very thin 
Filme. This Filme, is the true Kernel, confiding not only 
of two large and perfect Leaves ( anfwerable to the two 
Lobes 
