Staphylea [? pinnata L.].
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Nux Vesicaria the bladder Nut. It groweth in many places in this land, both as a hedge bush, and a standard tree at Ashford in Kent, and at Milton, three miles from Cambridge... Parkinson,Theatrum Botanicum,(1640),1417,1418. [The illustration is annotated in ink 'Staphylea pinnata'.]
Staphylodendron The Bladder Nut-tree, Said to grow at Milton three miles from Cambridge by Parkinson. We could not find it out by search, nor heare of it by enquiry, howbeit we deny not but possibly it may grow there. Ray,1660,160(116).
Martyn,1727,123.
Milton. The Staphylaea Pinnata said by Parkinson to grow at this place, has never been found by any one since that I could hear of. Martyn,1763,Herbat.II.
[Staphylea pinnata L. 'Milton 5 miles from Cambridge' Parkins. Theatr.1417.] Bab.ann.51.
