2io Of Nutr. Part It 
from corner to corner, very hard, fmooth, of a Chefnut 
colour, and now made hollow, the Kernel being pick'd 
out 3 and a hole cut on the top for that purpofe. Figur'd 
in Bauhinws, Pifo, and others 3 but more neatly in Calceola- 
rias Mufdeum. 
The Kernel, being eaten, is a ftrong Poyfon. The Na- 
(a) Pifo. t i ves G f Brajile (a) efpecially when they go to Dancing, 
hang the empty Shells, for Ornament, and the pleafure of 
the Noife they make, about their Legs : as Carriers do Bells 
(b) Uxms. a bout their Horfes Necks. The Wood (b) or Boughs 
being broken, ftink intollerably 3 fomewhat like to Gar- 
lid 
The true METHEL3 or the VOMITING-NUT com- 
monly fo called. Nux Vomica Officinarum. Very well de- 
( c ) Tom. 1. f cr ibed (c) in Bauhinus. Of the fhape and bignefs of a 
midling Troch, cover d with fhort Hair, of a greenifli 
brown. Very hard, and horny, and almoft folid 3 faving 
that in the middle it inclofes, as the Barbado-Nut, 2. thin 
Filme ,which is the true feed 3 whereof the faid horny Body, 
called the Nut, is only a great thick Cover. 
This Fruit is, by Celaffine, mod abfurdly called Fungus 
(d) Muf.1.2/ "Orientals. And Wormim (d) fpeaking of it, faith, That 
no Body knows certainly what it is. Whereas, by Difleclii- 
on, it plainly appears to be a Fruit. 
I find, that Cordus goeth thus far, as to obferve, That 
within this Nut is contained a Rudiment of the future 
Plant, confiding as it were of two little pretty veined 
Leaves, and a Stalk. But that thefe Leaves were the two 
Lobes or main Body of the Seed, that the Stalk of thefe 
Leaves, as he calls it, was the Root, and that between thefe 
Leaves was cooped the Bud, of the future Plant, are things 
whereof he had not the leaft notion. Neither did he know 
( for he fpeaks of it as a peculiar) that the like confpicuous 
foliation, is,as in truth it is,obfervable in the feeds of a great 
many other Plants. 
Half a Drachm of this Nut, given to a Dog, in powder, 
hath kill'd him, faith Bauhinus, in four hours. About $j, 
hath put a Dog into fo great Convulfions,that he hath dy'd 
in lefs than half an hour. 
Thetrue VOMITING-NUT. Nux Methel Officinarum. 
So that by a miftake,the Names of the Nut before defcrib'd, 
and 
