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Par rill 
Of Nutf. 
from corner to corner, very hard, fmooth, of a Chefnut 
colour, and now made hollow, the Kernel being pick’d 
out 5 and a hole cut on the top for that purpofe. Figur’d 
in Baubinus , Pifo, and others ; but more neatly in Calceola¬ 
rias Mufaum. 
The Kernel, being eaten, is a drong Poyfon. The Na- 
<a) Plfo ' t'ves of Bra file ( a ) efpecially when they go to Dancing, 
hang the empty Shells, for Ornament, and the pleafure of 
the Noifc they make, about their Legs: as Carriers do Bells 
(h) Lerius. a b ou t their Horfes Necks. The Wood (b) or Boughs 
being broken, dink intollerably; fomewhat like to Gar- 
lick. 
The true METHEL 3 or the VOMITING-NUT com- 
monly fo call d. Nux Vomica Officinarum. Very well de- 
(c) Tom. i. feribed (c) in Baubinus. Of the ihape and bignefs of a 
midling Trocb, cover’d with iliort Hair, of a greenifh 
brown. Very hard, and horny, and almod folid; laving 
that in the middle it inclofes, as the Barbado-Nut, a thin 
Filme, which is the true feed ; whereof the faid horny Body, 
called the Nut, is only a great thick Cover. 
This Fruit is, by Celafpine, mod abfurdly called Fungus 
(djUaCA.^. Orient alls. And Wormim ( d) fpeaking of it, faith, That 
no Body knows certainly what it is. Whereas, by DilTecti- 
on, it plainly appears to be a Fruit. 
I find, that Cor das gocth thus far, as to obferve, That 
within this Nut is contained a Rudiment of the future 
Plant, confiding as it were of two little pretty veined 
Leaves, and a Stalk. But that thefe Leaves were the two 
Lobes or main Body of the Seed, that the Stalk of thefe 
Leaves, as he calls it, was the Root, and that between thefe 
Leaves was cooped the Bud, of the future Plant, are things 
whereof he had not the lead notion. Neither did he know 
( for he fpeaks of it as a peculiar) that the like confpicuous 
foliation, is,as in truth it is,obfervable in the feeds of a great 
many other Plants. 
Half a Drachm of this Nut, given to a Dog, in powder, 
nath kill’d him, faith Baubinus, in four hours. About 5j, 
hath put a Dog into fo great Convulfions,that he hath dy’d 
in lefs than half an hour. 
The true VOMITING-NUT. Nux Methel Officinarum. 
So that by a midake,the Names of the Nut before defcrib’d, 
and 
