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like the white, but whole and dented, ending in a point, and not white underneath, - 
hanging by flender long foot-ftalks, which, with the air, are continually thaken as. 
the afpen-leaves are, . The catkins hereof are greater than of the white, compofed oi . 
matiy-round green berries, as.ic were fet together in a long clufter, containing much . 
downy matter, which, on being ripe, is blown away with the wind. The clammy. 
buds hereof, before they are {pread into leaves, are gathered to make the unguentum 
populeon,-and are of a yellowifh green colour, and fmall, fomewhat fweet, but ftrong. 
The wood is fmooth, tough, and white, and eafy to be cloven. On both thefe trees 
groweth afweet kind of mufk, which formerly ufed to be put into {weet ointments. 
“Peace. They grow in moift woods, and by the water-fide, in all parts of the 
kingdom; but the white fort is not fo frequently to be met with as the other. : 
Time. They are in leaf atthe end of fummer, but the niin come ikare the 
leaves, as above- mentioned. 
GovERNMENT AND Virtues. Saturn hath dominion over dicate The stint: 
Jar, faith Galen, poffeffes a cleanfing property; one ounce in powder of the bark. 
thereof, being drunk, faith Diofcorides, is a remedy for thofe that are’ troubled. 
with the fciatica or the ftranguary. The juice of the leaves, dropped warm into. 
theears, eafeth the pains thereof. The young clammy buds or eyes, before they. 
break out into leaves, bruifed, and a little honey put to them, are a good-medicine, 
foradull fight. The black poplar is held to be more cooling than the white, and; 
therefore the leaves bruifed with vinegar, and applied, help the gout, Thedfeed,. 
drunk invinegar, is held good againft the falling ficknefs. The water, that drop=: 
peth from the hollow places of this tree, taketh away warts, pufhes, wheals;, and: 
other out-breakings in the body.. The young black poplar buds, faith Mathiolus, | 
are much ufed by women to beautify their hair, bruifing them with frefh butter, | 
and {training them after they have been kept for fome time in the fun. The oint- 
ment called populeon, which is made of this poplar, is fingularly good for all heat 
and inflammation i in any part of the body, and tempereth the heat of wounds. It 
| is much ufed to dry up the milk i in women’s breatts, when egal have weaned thei 
Te ‘hk ea, LE PO P PY. 
“OF rele the coc agen iad viz. the bicaod black of the: gaily: ac 
erratic wild poppy, or corn-rofe. _ a8 
a _Descarrtion. ‘The white poppy ‘hath at firft four or five whitith green le : €3 
Tying u upon the ground, which rife with ‘the ftalk, compaffing it at the bottom of. 
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