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when unripe^ but yellow at last: in this, under 

 the fleshy part^ are contained many large flat seeds. 

 The poor people mix the fleshy part of the fruit 

 with apples^ and bake them in pies. The seeds are 

 excellent in medicine ; they are cooling and diure* 

 tic; the best way of taking them is in emulsions^ 

 made with barley water. They make an emulsioQ 

 as milky as almonds^ and are preferable to them, 

 and all the cold seeds^ in stranguries ^nd heat of 



urine. 



The Black Poplar. Populus nigra. 



A TALL tree, frequent about waters^ and of a 

 tery beautiful aspect. The trunk is covered with a 

 smooth pale bark ; the branches are numerous, and 

 grow with a sort of regularity. The leaves are short 

 and broad, roundish at the base, but ending in a 

 point ; they are of a glossy shining green^ and stand 

 oil long foot stalks. The flowers and seeds are 

 inconsiderable ; they appear in springs and pre little 

 regarded. 



The young leaves of the black poplar are ex- 

 cellent mixed in pultices^ to be applied to hard 

 painful swellings. 



■ The White Poppy. JPap aver alburn, 



A TALL and beautiful plant, kept in our gar- 

 dens^ a native of the warmer climates. It grows 

 «i yard and half high : the stalk is kv/und, smooth, 

 upright^ and of a bluish green ; the leaves are 

 Tery long^ considerably broad, and deeply and ir- 

 regularly cut in at the edges ; they are also of a 

 bluish green colour, and stand irregularly on the 

 stalk. The flowers are very large and whitc^ one 

 itauds at the top of each division of the stalk 



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