the ordinary Cheftnut, neither vnder thevt- 
ter coat hath it any peeling within as the o- 
ther hath, neither is it of lo good a tafte. 4 : 
4 3 This Americane Cheftnut is al- 
mofl round, but that it is a little flatted on 
the fides,efpecially whereas it is faftned to 
the ftalke : the vtter coat is flifficicntly 
thicke, yet brittle, and as it were fungous,of 
a brownifh yellow colour .-vnder this are a- 
boundance offmall yet ftiffe prickles , fail 
flicking to the fhell thatcontaines the ker- 
nell : the fhell it felfe is brownifh, not thick, 
but tough and hard to breake, fmooch and 
fhining on the iniide,vvherein is contained a< 
kernel of the bignefle and colour of an hares 
kidney, white within, and fweet in tafte like 
an almond or the common Cheftnut. Cluft- 
u< cals this Cajlanea Peruana, or Cheftnut of 
Peru ; and hee faith lice had it from the fa-' 
mous Geographer i ^Abraham Ortelius , who 
had it fent him by Benedict us osiriat Mont a - 
nut. The figure is expreft: vnder that of the 
Horfe Cheftnut. 4 
The Place. 
The firft growes on mountaines and fha- 
dowie places, and many times in the vallies: 
they loue a foftand blacke foile. There be 
fimdry woods of Cheftnuts in England, as a 
mile 
