ao8 Of Nun. Part It 
The New England CHESNUT. In figure, like the 
common fort 3 but a little lefs. The Chefnut was firft 
GO Mouf.de brought from Sard'is in Lydia, (a) into Italy, France, and 
ReCib. , England. In fome places where they abound, the people 
CM Bauhin. make Bread (b) of them. Heretofore, faith Bruyrinus, (c) 
ReCibat. 6 . tne y were brought, with the laft courfe, to the Tables of 
Princes. In his time, (about an hundred years fince) the 
Fretich ufed to make and eat Cbefnut-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 
GO Lib. 3. Horns. Figurd, as I take it, in Baubinus (d) by the 
c.104. ig.3. ]vj ame G £ pruftus peregrine, exiguus orbicularis, cum Sex 
Nervis. 
A Virginian AKORN within its Cup. oThere is one 
like this defcribed and figur d in Baubinm out of Clufeus, 
by the Name of Calix cum Glande inclufo maximus ex 
Wingandecaow, i. e. Virgitiia. 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 3 but here very hard : of an Or- 
bicular Figure, only open at the top about the breadth of 
* an inch. The Akom 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 Fifh. 
The ANACARDIUM. A fruit fo called from fome 
likenefs it hath to a little Heart 5 but yet flattifh, and near as 
big as a Garden-Bean. Defcribed and figur'd by Garcias, 
Baubinus, Wormius, Mofcardi, Bejler, and others. Being held 
(OBauhinus to the flame of a Candle, (e) it fpits Fire, or fparklingflafhes 
of divers colours. Anciently much ufed in Medicines, now 
obfolete, as Confeftio Anacardina, isc, Tbe Oil or Mellagi- 
nous Succus betwixt tbe Rind and tbe Kernel is tbat wbicb is 
C/)Muf. called (f ) Mel Anacardinum. Either the Name of Oil 
Wormian. ^ gj vcn lt mo ft ) or G f Honey, niuft be improper. It 
is of a very Cauflick and venimous Nature. Being mixed 
C g ) Bauh. with Lime, 'as ufed for the marking of Cottons (g) through- 
aToatdfs out Indians pickle tbe green Fruit, (b) and eat 
ab Horto. them as Olives. When perhaps they contain little or none 
Tat Cauflick Oil. The 
