_Brazilian Nutmegs_ are the highly aromatic seeds of _Cryptocarya moschata_, or _Atherosperma moschata_ of some botanists. It is a lofty tree, native of Brazil. The aromatic nuts are used as a substitute for nutmegs, but are very inferior to the genuine. _Peruvian Nutmeg, or Plum Nutmeg._--The seeds of a large evergreen tree with aromatic foliage, like our common sassafras, and for this reason is sometimes called Chilean or Peruvian sassafras. The seeds are of no more economic value than those of our native sassafras. It is known under various botanical names, but _Laurelia sempervirens_ is, perhaps, the most familiar. _California Nutmeg_, or _Stinking Nutmeg_, is the nut-like seed of _Torreya Californica_, a small tree of the yew family (_Taxaceæ_). The fruit is from an inch to an inch and a half long, with a fleshy rind enclosing a hard, long nut, which is slightly grooved like a nutmeg. The fruit, leaves and wood are strongly scented, hence the name of "stinking nutmeg," or "stinking yew." Another species, the _T. taxifolia_, is a native of Florida. OIL NUT.--The fruit of a low-branching, deciduous native shrub, growing three to ten feet high, with alternate leaves and small greenish flowers in terminal spikes. It is the _Pyrularia oleifera_ of Gray, and _Hamiltonia oleifera_ of Muhlenberg. The fruit is in the form of a pear-shaped drupe, about an inch long, the small seed or nut with an oily kernel of strong acrid taste; of no value. This shrub is found on shady banks in the mountains of Pennsylvania, and southward into Georgia. PARADISE NUT.--See Sapucaia nut. PEANUT, GROUNDNUT, GOOBER.--The well-known fruit of _Arachis hypogæa_, a low-growing annual belonging to the pulse or pea family (_Leguminosæ_), supposed to be a native of South America, but now extensively cultivated in nearly all semi-tropical countries and wherever the summers are long enough to insure the ripening of the seeds. Extensively cultivated in Virginia, south and westward. Too well known to require any further comment or notice here. PECAN NUT.--See Chap. VII. PEKEA NUT.--See Souari nut. PERUVIAN NUT.--See Nutmegs. PHYSIC NUT.--The seeds of _Jatropha Curcas_, a small tree of the spurgewort family (_Euphorbiaceæ_). It is native of some of the West Indies and warmer parts of South America, but now cultivated in other tropical countries for its seeds, which yield an oil used for the same purposes as castor oil, but rather more powerful and drastic. The seeds have a nutty flavor, but are rather dangerous if eaten in any considerable quantities, and death has been known to follow excess in this direction.