1597 : John Gerard, The Herball, or generall historie of plantes (Londinii: John Norton) pp. 1251-1253 "nux avellana sive corylus: the filberd nut; corylus sylvestris: the wilde hedge nut; avellana pumila Byzantina: the filberd nut of Constantinople"
1629 : John Parkinson, Paradisi in sole Paradisus terrestris (Londinii: Humphrey Lownes) p. 562