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the nuts breake forth at other places of the {hikes, thrceorfoureot more together, each enclofed in a tough 
browne huske, which reacheth beyond the nut, and is parted at the end into lundry jagges, the nut with it is 
large and round, more then the long fort, with a white thinne fhell on the outfide, and a white peeling covering 
the kernell within which is very iweete, the wood hereofis linooth,white, and fomewhat tough or hard, 
2. Nux AveUanafauvaalhamaximofruSlu. The great white Fillberd. 
This differeth in no other thing from the former, but in growing higher and bigger, and the nuts larger by the 
halfe,but round and white like it. 
3. Nhx Svetlana fativafrHCiu latino. T he long Fillberd. 
This Filberd differeth not in the bufh or tree,in the leaves or catkins, in the Nut or the bearded huskes from 
the former, the onelydifferenc&oonfCeth inthe nut it kite, which is long and round, and hatha browner (hell, 
which is diflinguifhed into two 'forts, the one hath the inner thinne skinne or peeling that covereth the kernell, 
red and the other white, and each of them of a hr ecter tafle then the former, and the red of this lort, better alfo 
then the white. . 
4. 2 Avellana Mice dome* jive Bjzantina. Filberds o\.<JAlacedon\a or Conjtantinople. 
Although Cordus, and Grfner gave the tirfl knowledge of this Nut to the Chriflian world, and that but by a 
fliort relation, yet lince them C 1 "S lM hath enlarged the defeription thereof by the often obfervations thereof, ic 
growethupflraight and tall like a tree, as Confer faith it wasobfervedira Macedonia and Thracia, (but as Clujim 
faith, it was reported to him that it grew very low) coveied with a whiter and more rugged barke,having fuch 
like large crumpled leaves,but fomewhat longer, the catkins are like the other, but the nuts grow many together 
in a clutter,whofc hard skin or tough huske is much more jagged at the head then the other, and lomewhat like- 
wife at the bottome.rhe Nut it felfe is round like cur wood nut with a hard fhell, the kernell within being very 
fwcete and pleafant like the Filberd ; lince which time Clufiw hath oblervcd it to grow lomewhat otherwife. 
5. Corylw (ive Nhx Avellana jylvcftris. The Wood nut or Half 11 nut. 
The Wood Nut grow eth with morcflemmes or fuckers,from the roote then the manured kinde, yet fomeof 
a rcal’onablc bignelfe, branching (or thdiverfiy .covered with a like dilcolouted barke ro the former,the leaves are 
leflcr and rounder, yet not leife crumpled greene above and gray underneath, the catkins and nuts come forth in 
th: fame manner, but the Nuts are imallcr and rounder whofe huske is Chor ter and whiter,and never wholly co¬ 
vereth the nur,but ftandeth therein like unto an Acornc in the cup, and herein confifteth the chiefelt difference for 
the manner of growing. 
6 . C^J^Virginenfis. Virgintan Hafell Nuts. 
The manner of the growing of thofe Nuts, we have not had fufficient inftru&ions of all, though wee have 
lecne and tad tlx Nuts of a long time which areas final! or rather fmaller,and browner then our Wood nuts,(har¬ 
per pointed and with a rougher fhell not fo hard or eaffc to breake: the kernel! is fomewhat f weete and white 
but not fo pleafant as ours. 
The Place and Time. 
Filberds arc planted in Orchards, and the wildenuts, grow in woods and thickets, that are mold rather then 
dr jj delighting ueff to grow in fuch a foile, the catkins as is faid appeare before the Spring, and the fruite is ripe in 
Astguft or September at the lurched. 
The Names. 
It is ailed inGreckc wl*™ van Nnx Pontica,and/.■.'tmygfvxNax tennis five parva, in Latine Cory/us etr Nux 
Abellina , from the Country whi, hatter wards altered and fell to Avellana, as alfo NxxPreneftina, and Heraclec- 
‘ica, the feverall tides that they heart-, decipher them ont fufficicntly, as wee and others have and can call them 
by. T e Arabians call ic AgilenzinA Bunduch, the Italians Nocivols, Nacelle, and Avtliana, the Spaniards A vel- 
la> e , she French NoiJettcr,No.frlies and AveHa.ms, the Cjestncmes H*felnt</z, the Dutch Hajelnoet , and we in 
Fnylijh Filberd, fot the manuredkindu, and Hafell nut,Wood nut,or laiall nut,for the wiltle kinde. 
TbcVersues. 
Theft fmallNut; while they are frefb are fwcete, and much pleafing to the palate,bin the much eating of them 
breed headache and windi ; (Ic in the flomackc, efpecial'y when they grow older,but if they be a little heated or 
parched by the fire, tile oyhtK l r c doth become 1 fie offenfive, rhe parched Nuts made into an electuary, or the 
nilkc drawne from the kernt Is with fame mede or honyed water,is very good to helpc an old cough, and being 
parched and a little pepper put to them ajiddrunke, it doth digelf the deflillation of rheume from the head, fomc 
aoe hold that thefe Nuts,and not Wallnuts, with figs and Rue, was (JWitLrtd.ies medicine, effcrffuaily againft 
povfons,theoyle of the nuts is effeftuall for the fame purpofes. Thedryed huskes and fhels to the weight of two 
drammes,takcn in red Wine flay, th the laskes and womens courfcs, and fodorh trered skinne that covereth the 
kernels, or is more eft’efluali today their rermes: if a fnakebedroke with an Hafcli wand, it doth fooner dunne 
it,then with any other dicke, becaufc it info pliant, that it will winde clofesr about it, fo that being deprived of 
their motion.they mud reeds dye with paine and want.-and it is no hard matter in like manner,faith Tragus to kill 
a mad dog thatfhallbedrooke with an Hafcli dicke,fuch as menufe to walkcortide withall. 
Chap. XX, 
Nux Pijlacia. The Fidicke Nut. 
He Fidicke Nut groweth to be a tree of a teafonable large fife in the warme Countries, but very 
(lendcrly in ours difperfed into lundry branches, whole barke is of a darke ruffet colour, the 
leaves are winged three.five,or feven on a ftalke, each whereof is broader and larger then thofe 
oftheAfh, not (harpe but blunt pointed with us,fmooth, almolf fhining, with divers vcines 
therein, andola paleyellowilligreene colour. I never law it beare either fruite or fiowersin 
our Land,theclimate being too cold for it, but elle where it beareth white flowers, asl am gi¬ 
ven to underhand many fee together, ona longcluhor, after which come the fruite many together in the fame 
manner 
