Lib. 3, 
Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
1441 
Nux Inrhns,^ though you fhould lay louts gUns , lupiters Acome ; or IuvamgLm, thehelping A- 
corne • andof diuers, Perftca Nux, or thePcrllan Nut : in high-Dutch, UDelftl) ^Ufj.and 23aum= 
naft : in low- Dutch, ©ofeetnoten, uaalfd) 0otcn : In Italian, Noe, : in French, Notx : in Spa- 
nilh, Nueces, and Nous : in EnglilFi, Walnut ; and of fome, Wallh nut. 
The Temperature and Vert MS. 
The frefh kernels of the nuts newly gathered arc pleafant to the tafFe : they are a little cold, and A 
haueno fmall raoifture, which is not perfe&ly concoided : they be hard of digeftion, and nouriili 
ht ' Thedrv hub wehot^nd dry, and thofe more which become oily and ranke .'thefe be very hurt- B 
full to the ftomacke, and befides that they be hardly concofted, they increafe choler, caule head- 
ache, and be hurtfull for the cheft, and for thofe that be troubled with the cough. 
Dry Nuts taken fading with a fig and a little Rue withdand poyfon, preuent and preferue the C 
body from the infettion of the plague, and being plentifully eaten they dnue wormes forth of the 
Xhe greeneand tender Nuts boiled in Sugar and eaten as Suckad,area mod pleafant and dele- D 
ftable meate, comfort the ftomacke, and expell poyfon. 
The oile of Walnuts made in fuch manner as oileof Almonds, maketh fmootli the hands and t 
face, and taketh away feales or feurfe, blacke and blew marks that come of ftripes or bruifes. 
Milke made of the kernels, as Almond milke is made, coolcth and pleafeth the appetite ot the 1 
Ian wSoniS e fal°t?and hony, they arc good againft the biting of a mad'dog or man, if they be G 
^Bcinv botheatenjand alfo applied, they heale in fhort umt^Biofcmdcs faith, Gangrens Car- H 
bunclesVilops,and the pHlingaway of the haire: this alfo is effectually done by the otic that is 
prefled outof them, which is of thin parts, digefting and heating. 
The outward greenehuske of the Nuts hath a notable binding facultie. , „ 
Galen deuifed and taught to make of the iuyee thereof a medicine for the mouth, Angular good K 
25 The leiues anc^ certaine binding qualitie,asthe fame Authour <heweth ; yet L 
there doth abound in them an hot and dry temperature. . , ., 
Some ofthelater Phyfitions vfe thefe for baths and lotions for the body, in which they haue a M 
force to digeftand alfo to procure fweat. 
Chap. pi. Of the Qbejlnut tree. 
The De/cription. 
1 HP He Cheftnut tree is a very great an high tree : it caftetli forth very many boughes : the 
I body is thicke and fometimes of fo great a compafle as that two men can hardly fa- 
1 th0I n i t ■ the timber or fubftance of the wood is found and durable : the leaues be 
great, rough, wrinkled, nicked in the edges, and greater than the particular leaues of the Walnut 
tree. The blowings or catkins be (lender, long, and grecne : the fruit is inclofed in round a rough 
and prickly huske like to an hedge-hogorVrchin, which opening itlclfe doth let fall the ripe fruit 
or Nut. This nut is not round, but flat on the one fide, fmooth,and fharpe pointed : it is couered 
with a hard (hell, which is tough and very fmooth of a darke browne co 'o“r : r he ‘iie a K or inner 
fubftance of the nut is hard and white, and couered with a thin skin which is vnder the fhell. 
2 The Horfe Cheftnut groweth likewife to be a very great tree, fpreadmg his great and large 
armes or branches far abroad, by which meanes it maketh a very good coole (hadow. Thefe bran- 
ches are garnifhed with many beautifull leaues, cut or diuided into fine, fix, or feuen feftions or di- 
uifions, like to the Cinkfoile, or rather like the leaues of Rtctnus, but bigKt. The floures grow at 
the top of the (talks, confiding of foure fmall leaues like the Cherry bloftbme which turne into 
round rough prickly heads like the former, but more fharpe and harder : the nuts are alfo rounder. 
, The floures of this, faith Cluftus (whofe figure of them I here giue you) come out of the bofom 
of the leafe which is the vppermoft of the branch, and they arc many in number growing vpon pret- 
tie loner foot- ftalkcs, confiding each ofthemoffoure white leaues of no great bignefte; the two 
vnnermoft are a little larger than the red, halting round purple foots in their middles : out of the 
middle ofthe floure come forth many yellow, lh thredswith golden pendants. The fruit , scon. 
“ ned in a prickly huske that opens in three parts, and it is rounder and not fo fiiarpe pointed as 
