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~avell<m,i Age/tchus as Athenetu faith, called it Mot a and 1 Amotti: Pliny maketh divers forts hereof, as by the 
names he gtveth them (hould feeme,as Tarentina, Salariarta, Meterana, Coreliana, Balanitis, &~c. Whenasthe 
climate and foyle.make this diverfity as it is in our dayes that the French, and Spanijh great rmcs.that are ofa fwee- 
terrclifti are called CMarrons, which hath cm(ei CMatthioltu, Ruellms and others, to let downetwo forts ofit, 
one to be wilde, and another tame, becaufe one is greater then another. The firft is generally called by all Wri¬ 
ters Cajfanea, and the fruite Nux Cafiasea. The fecond is alio called Callanea equina, by all Authours that have 
written ofit, not being knowne as it is thought, to any of the auncien: Writers, unlelle as Ctsfalpimu thinketh, 
ic may be the Myrobalanus folio heliotropij of Pliny,lit’, l 2/.21. The Tanker call it At or Adcaslanefi, which doth 
fignifie as much as Cafianea aquina. The third is called Caftpneahnmiln by Lttgduncnfis, and Johannes deChoul 
in his Hifioria mentis Pilati. the fourth is remembred onely by Clafittt, who had it from Abramus Ortcliut, who 
received it from BenediSus Aruu Montanas, brought out of the Weft Indies. The laft Moxardus called Frtsfhss 
Cholugogus, and Lagdunexfis from him, but C a fi ,r Dnraxtes, Cafianeapurgatrix, and Bauhimu from him. The 
Arabians call it SaditnalachCafial and Stebulot, the ItalixnsCaftague, the Spaniards Marrons, and fo doe the 
French as is before faid.and Cafiaignei alfo, the Gcrmanes Kefien,and the Dutch CaSlanieboem, 
The Vertues. 
Our Chefnuts arc much of the property of Acornes,being hot and dry in the firft degree, with a certaine win- 
dinefl'ein them, which is perceived by thofc that are put into the fire coroft,by skipping thereout fuddenly wieft 
a great cracke or noife.but will not doe fo if it be a little ft. t by thrufting the point of a knife into them, whereby 
theheatemay cxpcll the windineffe. Of all the kinds of Acornes faith Galen the Chefnuts are the belt, and doe 
onely of all wild fruites y tcld unto the body commendable nourifhmenr, yet not to be overmuch eaten, in that as 
he faith they breedethicke blood, and being windy protute headache, arehardofdigeftion, andbindethe body 
by an aftringent quality, whereof they pertake not a little. The inner skinne that covcreth the white nut is fo a- 
ftringent.that if the decoflion thereof in wine cr water,or the pouther thereof be taken in fome convenient drink 
it will fooneftayanyfuper-purgation, or any flux of tloodin man or woman. Dodonxm faith that if the meale 
of Chefnuts be made into an Eleftuary with hony, itisvery profitable for thofe are troubled with acoughor 
with fpitting of blood. In many places wherethere are great ltore growing, they fatten up t'neir hogges with 
the nuts as we doe in England with Acornes,and Beech-maft. The Horle Chefnuts are given in the Bali Coun¬ 
try,and fo through all Tut fir,mo Hor fes to cure them of the cough,(hortneffe of winde and fuch other difeafes: 
the low or dwarfe Chefnuts by reafon of the urdavoury tafte,are not ufed by any : and the Chefnut of Pent, is not 
recorded of what quality it is more then that Clufiut as is before faid.faith the tafte is like an Almond or an ordi¬ 
nary Chefnut. The laft fort Lfl lonardm faith purgeth gently, and chollerefpecially, eaten when it is frefh, or 
bruifed and drunke in Wine,but being dryed the pouther is given in broth, and if it be rolled it purgeth the leffe: 
bn: this is tobeoblervcd faith he, that the thinne skinne is to be taken away howfoever you take it, leaft it pro¬ 
cure vomittings, Iaskcs,and other daungerous fymptomes. 
Chap, X. 
Fagus, The Beechtreci 
^s^jEcaufe this treebcareth fruite fomewhat like unto a Chefnut, having beene reckoned alfo akinde of 
Acorne beating t;ee, I thought it fitted to place it next after the chefnut, both becaufe it is found 
growing in woods among Okes.and that the fruite fervethas Acorne mill to fatten up fwine. The- 
ophrafius maketh two forts, montana and campefiris, the former white, the other blacke, but wee can 
finde no lucMiverfity in thofe that grow with us. Cur Beech therefore groweth to be a great and a tall tree, 
fpreading theboughes and branches on every fide, whereby it maketh a goodly large Iliadsw, unlcfle it be fined 
below to make it fpring up higher, covered with a fmooth white barke, whereon are placed many broad fmooth 
leave almoft round ye: poinied at the end,and a little finely dented about the edges,ofa fad greene colour, which 
ulually turtle yellow before they fall away, and whereon arc often found cei caine fmall round hollow berries 
pointed at one end, greene at the firft and red afterwards, wherein are found Imall wormes: The blowings or 
catkins arc (mall and yellow,like thofe of the Birch tree, but lefle.and quickely falling away : The fruite is con¬ 
tained in a rough huske fomewhat like the Cliefnur,but noc prickly fharpe at all, which being ripe openech it fclfe 
into three parts,and fheweih a fmall three fquare nut, covered with a fmooth foftskin, browner then thcChef- 
r.ut, and under it a fweece whice kernell like the Chefnut,but more aftringent: the rootes grow not deepe,nor 
yet fpread farte ; the timber is fmooth and white,but brittle,yet profitable to many ufes. 
The Place and Time, 
This groweth through moft Woods in England,imongthz Okes and other trees, and is planted alfo in Parkes, 
Forrefts, and Chafes, to feede their Deere, but in other places to fatten Swine, whole fat will bee fofter then 
theirs that are fatted with Acornes; it bloometh in the end of Aprill or beginning of May for the moft part, and 
the fruite it ripe in the end of September, 
The Names, 
Ic is called in Greekesf;i/'» Oxfa, in latino Fagot, C/ara trailflatcth it Scifiima quod fit in Laminat SciJfilU, it is 
eafie to be cloven: yet he alfo tranfiateth the < of Theophrafius which he numbretb among the Okes,to be Fa- 
gut, whole ill fample Tragus,Fstchfiut, Ruellitts,Matthiolm ‘Dodencut, and almoft all other Writers thereof fince 
his time have follow ed as f laid before in the Chapter of Okes, whofc difference many yet have acknowledged, 
blit none before Dalechampius have plainely detefled : another errour alfo hath fpread among many, in taking 
= 7e - ! or f A*,Ofirys or Ofirya of the Srcekes, whereof Pliny (pcaketh lib. 13 ,c,2i .to be this Oxya but Pliny fhew- 
cth plainely in the defeription of Ofirys that the fruite or feede is like unto Barley,which they would correct,and 
make it robe like the Chefnut, thus one errour begetteth another: but Ofirys or Ofirya, as (hall be fhewedhere- 
afeer is rather a kinde of Elme, yet improperly hecalleth \iCarpinm, whenasthe Carpmut 0 f the ancients isa 
kinde of Maple,as fhall be (hewed,and Dodonnu to mend the matter placeth the Ofirys among the Maples,under 
the 
