14:8 Of the Hiftorie of Plants. L'i B.3 
forwhichit is taken ofthe later writers :and Pliny hath written ofit in his 1 6. book, 1 6. chap. There 
isalfo (faith he) beyond the Alpesatree, the timber whereof is very hke to that of white Maple,' 
and is called Staphylodcndron^x. beareth cods, and in thofe kernels.hauing the talk of the Hafel nut. 
It is called in Englifh,S. Anthonies nuts,wiidc Piftacia,or Bladder nutsithe Italians call it Piflachie 
SaluJicke : the French men call it Bagucrwidesa patrenoftrcsjm that the Friers dovfe to make beads 
of the nuts. 
^ The T emperaturc and Vertuis. 
A Thefenuts are moift and ful of fuperfluous raw humours, and therefore they eafily procure a rea- 
dinefle tovomite,and trouble the ftomacke.by reafon that withall they be fomewhat binding, and 
therefore they be not to be eaten. 
j. They haue as yet no vfe in medicine, yet notwithftanding fome haue attributed vnto them fome 
vcrtues in prouoking of Venerie , 
Chap. 85). Of the Hafell tree. 
Tht Dtfcription. 
1 »-pHe Hafell tree groweth like a fhrub or fmall tree, parted into boughes without ioints, 
A tough and pliable: the Ieaues are broad, greater and fuller of wrinckles than thofe Ofthe 
A! der tree, cut in the edges like a faw,of colour greene,and on the backfide more white,the bark is 
thin: the root is thicke,ftrong,and growing deep- in (lead of fioures hangdowne catkins, aglets, 
or blowings, (lender, and well compadt : afterwhich come the Nuts (landing in a tough cup of 
a greene colour, and iagged at the vpper end, like almoft vnto the beards in Rofes. The (hell is 
fmooth and wooddie : the kernel within confifteth of a white,hard,and found pulpe, and is couered 
with a thin skin, oftentimes red, mod commonly white ; this kernell is fweetand pleafant vnto the 
tafte. 
I Nux AueHanaJtve Coryltu. 
TheFilberdNut. 
i Corylut fylutfiris. 
The wilde hedge Nut, 
