172. Tab. The Blader nut, Chesnut, Beech, Coco and other Indian nut trees
Information
Title
172. Tab. The Blader nut, Chesnut, Beech, Coco and other Indian nut trees
Record type
Digitised Book Plate Collection
Original Reference
BP/13316-1001/4
Date
1752
Scope & content
Black and white engraving depicting the Blader nut [Staphylea pinnata], Beech, Coco and Indian nut trees. Plants illustrated include: 'The bladder nut', 'the greater and lesser three leaved bladder nut Munting', 'The Chesnut tree', 'The hors Chesnut tree', 'The dwarf Chesnut and Chesnut of Peru', 'A kind of Chesnut', 'a small forain frute like a Chesnut', 'The Beech tree', 'The Indian Coconut tree', 'Acosta his Palm tree', 'The Coconut of Moldiva', 'The square coconut', 'The great Palmo coco shell', 'Dog palmo', 'Small Indian nut', 'The discoloured red Indian nut', 'Severall varieties of the Eaufel or Areca, which is a kind of Palm', 'A nut like unto faufell, 'Small hairy Indian frute'. From the book 'A compleat herbal of the late James Newton' by James Newton