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Lib. 3. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 1555 
$35 Fruffusfquttmefi* 
Sc^lie fruits. 
$ J 6 FruBut aljj Exetui. 
Other ftrange fruits. 
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t 26 Fruftus aly F.xottci. 
Other ftrange fruits. 
(ingle Nut here figured, deferibed, & fet forth * 
but this figure better exprefles the manner of 
growing cherof : for firft it prefents to the view 
the nuts in their outer husks growing clofe to- 
gether^ then the (ingle nuts in and out of their 
husks, and laftly their kerncll : the (hell of this 
nutcontainesin it a certaine oilie fubftance, 
fomwhat refembling the oile of fweet almonds: 
the tree whereof this nut isthe fruit growes in 
Ginny.and is much vfed by the people there, for 
they preflea liquour forth of the leaues, orelfe 
boile them in water, & this femes them in (lead 
of wine & beare,or at leaft for a common drink, 
of the fruit they make b read of a very fweet and 
pleafant tafte. 
35 Thefe fcaily fruits are fetforthbyC/#- 
fws,Exct.l.i c.q.lhe firft was three inches long 
and two inches about, and had in it a longifh 
hard follid kernel!, with many veines difperfed 
ouer it, and fuchkernels are fomtimes poliftied, 
whereby they become white, and then their 
blacke veines make a fine (hew, which hath gi- 
ucn occafion to fom e impoftois to put them to 
faile for rare and precious (tones. 
The fecond was fmall, round and fcaily, and 
the fcailes turned their points downwards to- 
wards the ftalke. 
The third was alfofcaiIy,of the bignefleofa 
Walnut in his huske, with the fcailes very or- 
derly placed, and of a brownifh colour : it had a 
kernel which ratled in it when it was fhaken. 
2 6 The firft of the two in the former table 
was brought from Ginny, it was of the bignefle 
and fhapeof a plum, two inches, long, and one 
and halfe broad, ofa thicke fungous fubftance, 
fomewhatvvrinckled,and blackifh on the out- 
ftde,and within containing a certaine whitifh 
mfiped friable pulpe, wherein lay a few fmall 
feeds. 
The fecond was fome inch and halfe long, an 
mch thicke, couered with an afh coloured skin/ 
compofed within of many fibres almoft like the 
huske of the Nut Faufell, at the lower end it 
flood in a double cup, and it was fharp pointed 
Ppppppa it 
