Part II. 
Of Nuts. 
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Lobes 111 other Kernels) but of thofe parts alfo, which in 
time become the Trunk and Root of the Tree. 
Thefe Nuts work flrongly both by Vomit and Stool ; 
(a) four or five of them a great Dofe. Being eaten toiled ' (i ) Bluh - 
or injedted in Clyflers, ( 3 ) which is the fafeft way of ufing JbT ma*. 
them, they are a prefent Remedy in the Cholick, One dcs - 
thing, very obfervable, is mention’d by Mr. Boyle 5 (c) and M in his 
fince, alfo by Mr. Ligon : (d) and that is, That the Ca- 
t bar tied Power of the AW, although fo great, yet lies only iw.' 
or chiefly in that very thin Films above-faid, by me affirmed 
to be the Kernel: for this being taken out, the reft may be ” P ’ 
eaten, as any other Nut. 
A fmall Indian Nut, about an inch long, and about 
half an inch over 5 with a pretty hard Rind, and of a 
fhining black. Excepting the colour, very like to that de¬ 
ferred and figur’d in Bauhinm, with the Name of Nucula 
Exotica Piflacij fpecie. 
The ANGOLA NUT. About*of an inch long, and 
as broad, on one fide Convex; on the oppofite, flat 5 and 
of a tawny colour. The Shell very hard. The Kernel thin 
and leafy, and loged within a thick white Cover, as in the 
Barbado Nut. 
They purge upward and downward: one of them will 
give about a dozen Stools. 
The Purging-CHESNUT. Cafta?iea purgatrix. Well 
deferibed and figur’d in Calceolarims Mufaeum. (e) The (0 Sed. 5. 
Figure in Bauhinm (who defcribes (/) it by the Name of (f ) Xom-r- 
Frudtm Indicm decujfatm) not fo good. ’Tis a blackifh iib.3.c,u<s. 
Fruit, about an inch and * long, almoft fquare, and pretty 
flat. But that which is moft obfervable, is the double Sinus 
which compafleth it both by the length and breadth, as if 
it had been girded acrofswith a firing. And, as it were, a 
Crefcent on that fide, by which it grows to the Shell. 
A FRUIT in figure like a Cbefnut ; but’tis much lefs, 
at leaf!, than the common fort. The outward fhell of a 
dusky colour, and thin, yet almoft as hard as a Pebble 5 
or like that of the Seed of Gromwell. Under this lies another 
of the ufual hardnefs of a Fruit Stone. Within which is 
included a whitifh Kernel, of a pleafant tail, yet producing a 
roughnefs in the Throat. 
The 
