2q8 Of Nutr. Part II. 
The New England CHESNUT. In figure, like the 
common fort 3 but a little lefs. The Chefnut was firft 
(a) Mouf.de brought from Sardis in Lydia, (a) into Italy, France, and 
ReClb * England. In fome places where they abound, the people 
CW J^"* make Bread (b) of them. Heretofore, faith Bruyrinus, (c) 
Rc c!bar. e tne y were brought, with the laft courfe, to the Tables of 
Princes. In his time, ( about an hundred years fince) the 
French ufed to make and eat Chefnut-Pottage, 
A kind of fmall HORNED NUT. Not fo big as a 
little Nutmeg , 'tis of a brown colour , and with two 
pointed knobs at one end, bended outward , like little 
00 Lib. 3. Horns. Figurd, as I take it, in Bauhinus (d) by the 
c.io4.Fig.3. ]s^ ame G f f ru ftus peregrin us, exiguus orbicularis, cum Sex 
Nervis. 
A Virginian AKORN within its Cup. There is one 
like this defcribed and figur d in Bauhinus out of Clufius, 
by the Name of Calix cum Glande inclufo maximus ex 
Wingandecaow, i.e. Virginia. The Cup is about an inch 
and * Diametre, and the fides very thick 5 compofed of a 
great number of Scales, as the Empalement of a Thiftle, 
and many other Flowers 5 but here very hard : of an Or- 
bicular Figure, only open at the top about the breadth of 
* an inch. The Akgm it felf, little bigger than the com- 
mon fort. But their taft and fubftance may be more 
grateful. For in Virginia they are dry'd and preferved for 
food. They fteep, and boil them, and fo eat them either 
with Fleih or Fife. 
The ANACARDIUM. A fruit fo called from fome 
likenefs it hath to a little Heart 3 but yet flattifh, and near as 
big as a Garden-Bean. Defcribed and figur d by Garcias, 
Bauhinus, Wormius, Mofcardi, Bejler, and others. Being held 
(e) Bauhinus to the flame of a Candle, (e) it fpits Fire, or fparkling flafhes 
of divers colours. Anciently much ufed in Medicines, now 
obfolete, as Confetlio Anacardina, (Pc. The Oil or Mellagi- 
nous Succus betwixt the Rind and the Kernel is that which k 
C/)Muf. called (f) Mel Anacardinum. Either the Name of Oil 
Wormian. ^ g ivcn lt by mo ft ) or of Honey, muft be improper. It 
is of a very Cauftick and venimous Nature. Being mixed 
( g ) Bauh. with Lime, 'tis ufed for the marking of Cottons (g) through- 
IwJskIu OUt ^ n ^ a - -H je Vidians pickle the green Fruit, (h) and eat 
ab Horto. them as Olives. When perhaps they contain little or none 
of that Cauftick Oil. The 
