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ing broad and green leaves,{omewhat like to Ivy leaves not.cut-in on the Edges 
but,whole.and, ented, ending in a:point and-not white underneath, hanging 
by flender long fooutalks, which wich the Air-are almoft continually fhaken, 
ma edt Catkins hereof are greaty compoted of many 
ro} ind.green berries, as it were fer together ona long:clutter.: Wherein ismuch 
Downy matcer,contained ; which hae ripesis blown/away withthe wind:the 
syes,0r,,clammy, Buds, hereof, before they spread into leaves (and not of the 
white as{ome havethought, nor yet the Uve or berries, which:each of chem 
have under them)are gathered abonethe beginning of Aprillsto make the Un- 
Suenttere Populcon; andiate of a yellowith green colour,and {mall, but {omewhat 
tweet and {trong j.the wood is fmooth; tough, and whice;.and-wall quickly be 
cloven to make {hingles, pales,orthe like. Onthis,asalfoon the whire Pop- 
lar Tree groweth a {weet kind of Musk, which in former times was much ule 
incofweer~Oinements, and comimended by” Galen and others <6 
be the belt, next unto that ofthe Cedar Tree, 
The Place and Time, : 
The firft kind of whire Poplar growerh ‘not very common in England, yer 
in fome place here and there it isfound, as ina low Meadow, turning up a 
Lane at the further end of a Village; called Black-waill ; andin Effex ara place 
called Overden, and in fome other places which are low and moift, as in Mea- 
dows near-unto Ditches, ftanding waters, and Rivers sand in ara: 
where the othershreefortsido..alfo-grow..; , bur the Zndiax Poplar erowedhin 
olt-parc- ofthe Ifands of America, Tk Secreesbudiorca inthe end of Afarch 
ig: theb Zee ag Of April : butthe Catkins appear. on Pdiiow. iets 
; BS 3 wee 9 = et phe EF in i et *., = 7s . 
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es ak 3 % The Temperature. fi terval Je sadsos creas 
3, 2evesk SLE Se OF BOG ; at Ft us = Tei 
{The white Poplar hatha se faculty faith Galen,anda-mixt tempe ra- 
SE ae pint warm effence, and alfoathin earthly {ubftance. The 
Rofn orclammy-Subftance of the black Poplar buds, is hor and dry. and of thin 
Parts..anddoth ; attenuate. and: mollifies . the leat es have ina mannerthe 
: 
Hike,.operation » but weaket end nor fo effectual. VVhar -temapérarure 
uh¢. Indian jort..is of, 1 have not found, >. °+;. 
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. Adeleribed the Black Poplar; becanfe chat bad. mo@t Gimilitudewith Ivy pbur 
ir isthe white Poplar(whoie form differech not much from the other, fave that 
the leaves.are almoft like chofe ofthe Vine, or father Colts-foot). which is ap 
toptiated to the Earsyrhe juyce of whofe leaves being extracted: warmed and 
topped.into them,eafech rhe painsiinthem,and hedlech Ulcers there, if there 
ans The young clammy buds, or eyes,before they break oueinto leaves 
bruifedand a little Honey put tothem,is.a good: Medicine for a dull fo t. by 
Signature, An ounce ihe bark inPowder being drunk, faith Diofcorides,in 
Wine, ‘tis likely, is a remedy for thofecthat are troubled with the Sciatica or 
Sane and Serenus is of the fame Judgment, The black Po “ 
‘ome £0.D¢ more-cooling chen the whites:and therefore hey have with much 
profcapplyed che leaves brnifed wih Vinegarto places szoubled wit tne 
jout, and {o do the young leaves and buds mad¢incd! an Oinerhent with May- 
_ 3 Vinegar, That water that droppech from the hollow places ofthe black 
Poplats,dorh take away Warts, Pufhes, Wheales, and other thelike break- 
mid the body. The young black Poplar Buds; faith Maithiolus are'aled 
