2o 6 Of Nuts. Part II* 
A WALNUT fhaped like a Tear. Whether mon- 
ftrous, or of any Species , is uncertain. Tis two inches 
long, at one end * of an inch thick or over, and the other, 
above an inch. 
Another, with one Concave of the Shell twice as big as 
the other. 
A Third, with a Shell compofed of three Valves or 
Plates, 
A NUT, which feems to be a fort of Indian Filbert. I 
find it not defcrib’d. Of a triangular Figure, one greater 
fide fubtended to two leffer. The Bafe ■' an inch thick 5 
an inch and * long, or wide 5 from thence to the Cone as 
much. Of a brown afh-colour 3 and ruged all round 
about by the diftribution of a great number of Fibers. 
Only the true Bafe, by which it joyned to the Husk, is 
fmooth; and, as that of a Filbert , cleavable along the 
middle. 
The HAZLE-NUT of New England. Neither is this 
defcrib’d. Here is a Box of them. They are fhorter, and 
broader, than the common fort 3 the point depreffed, and 
the Bafe more produc’d. In colour, both alike. 
HAZLE-NUTS, fome three , and fome four growing 
together. 
The NUT called MEHEMBETHENE. It grows upon 
a frnall Tree, like a Hajle , in New Spain. Defcnbed in 
(a) Lib. 3. Baubinus. ( a) ’Tis fomewhat Oval, an inch and I long, I ds 
c. 36. over. Divided by a triangular partition into three Cells, for 
the lodging of fo many Kernels. 
The BARBADO-NUT. The Fruit, in truth, of a kind 
(bjUg.Hifl °f Plum-Tree. (b) Yet the Name prevailing, I have placed 
c/Barb p.67. it here. Defcnbed in Baubinus, Wormius, and others by the 
Name of Avellana purgatrix Americana f. Ben magnum 
(c) Muf. Medicorum vulgb: (c) but not well. ’Tis about the big- 
Woriman. ne p s Q f a pnp ert- The fhell blackifh, thin, and brittle, and 
fomewhat angular. Within, there is a white foft Body, 
commonly, but falfly fuppofed to be the Kernel. For this 
Body is not divided, as are all Kernels , into two difhnct 
Lobes , but is one entire part. Yet fo as to have fome little 
hollownefs in the middle, capable to lodge a very thin 
Filme. This Filme, is the true Kernel, confiding not only 
of two large and perfedt Leaves (anfwerable to the two 
Lobes 
