The Ufifel Family Herbal. 295 
- cornered and angulated, and they are of a d 
os ae Qe rae eS ee 
green Colour, and rough to the Touch. The 
Flowers are very large, and yellow, of a Bell-like — 
Shape, but angulated at the Mouth, and the Fruit 
is of the Melon Kind, only bigger and round; 
of a deep Green when unripe, but yellow at laft, 
in this, under the flefhy Part, are contained many 
large flat Seeds. 
The poor People mix the flefhy Part of the 
Fruit with Apples, and bake them in Pies. The 
Seeds are excellent in Medicine, they are cooling 
and diuretic, the beft Way of taking them is in 
Emulfions, made with Barley Water. They make 
an Emulfion as milky as Almonds, and are prefe- 
rable to them, and all the cold Seeds in Stranguries 
and Heat of Urine. ; 
The Brack Poplar. 
POPULUS NIGRA 
A Tall Tree, frequent about Waters, and of a 
very beautiful Afpectt. The Trunk is co- 
 vered with a fmooth pale Bark, the Branches are 
numerous, and grow with a Sort of Regularity. 
The Leaves are fhort and broad, roundifh at the — 
Bafe, but ending in a Point; they are of a glofly 
fhining Green, and ftand on long Foot-Sfalks. 
The Flowers and Seeds are inconfiderable, they 
appear in Spring, and are little regarded. 
The young Leaves of the black Poplar are ex- 
 ¢ellent mixed in Pultices, to be applied to hard 
painful Swellings. 
. 
=~ 
