Of the Hiflory of Plants, 
2 Corylus fylueftns is our hedge Nut or Hafell Nut tree, which is very well know ne, and there - 
fore needeth not any defeription : w'hereof there are alfo fundry forts,fome great, fome little,fome 
rathe ripe, fome later, as alfo one that is manured in our gardens, which is very great, bigger than 
any Filberd,andyetakindeof Hedge nut : this then that hath beene faid fhall fuffice for Hedge- 
Nuts. 
| 5 The fmall Turky Nut tree growes but low, and the leaues grow without order, vpon the 
twigs, they are in fhape like thofe of the former, but fomewhat longer : thechiefe difference con- 
fiftsin the fruir, which is fmall, and like an Hafell Nut, but (hotter ithehuske, wherein fomtimes 
one,otherwbiies more Nuts are contained, is very large, tough, and hard, diuided both aboue and 
below incoa great many iags, which oneuery fidecouerand hold in the Nuts, and thefe cups are 
very rough ^vithour, b ut fmooth on the infide. clufiui firft fetthis forth (hauing receiued it from 
Conftantinople) by th.e nameoti^iiie/lanapumiU By^antina. % 
3 ^dticlUnapumila ByT^antinacum fuo fruPlu. 
The Filbc-rd Nut of Conftantinople. 
The Place. 
The Hafell trees do commonly grow in Woods and in dankifh vntoiled places : they are alfo 
fet in Orchards, the Nuts whereof are better, and of a fweetertafte, and be moft commonly red 
within. 
The Time. 
The catkins or aglets come forth very timely, before winter be fully paft,and fall away in March 
or Aptill, f° fooneas the leaues come forth : the Nuts be tipc in Auguft. 
The Names. 
This fhrub is called in Latine, Corylus : in Greeke, **4 that is, Nux Pcntica , or Ponticke 
Nut: in h lglt-D u tch, l)afel fttatlCfe 5 in low-Dutch, ^fetter, in Englifti,Hafel tree and Filberd 
tree • but the Filberd tree is properly that which gtoweth in gardens and Orchards, and whole fruit 
is commonly wholly coueredouer with the huske, and the (hell is thinner. . 
The Nut is named in Latino, Nux Ponitca.tenuis Nux,faruaNux^t is alfo called 7s[ux Prar . i / 
« « Nux fleraclcotica, and commonly Nuxauellana, by which name it is vfually knowne to the Apo- 
thecary : in high-Dutcb, «: i n low-Dut. :b$aCel&0t«»: ini 
Needle , in French, Noifettes,& Ncfdla : in Spamfh ,A»e/lamta : m Englifh, Hafell nut,and Filberd. 
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