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cornered and angulated, and they are of a deep 

 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 j 

 of a deep Green when unripe, but yellow at lad, 

 in this, under the fiefhy Part, are contai[ned many 

 large flat Seeds. ' 



The poor People mix the flefliy Part of the 

 Fruit with Apples, and bake them in Pies. The 

 Seeds are excellent in Medicine, they are cooling 

 and diuretic, the befl Way of taking them is in 

 Emulfions, made with Barley Watcn They make 

 an 5-mulfion as milky as Almonds, and are prefe- 

 rable to them, and all the cold Seeds in Stranguries 

 and Heat of Urine. 



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The Black Poplar, 

 POPULUS NIGRA' 



Tall Tree, frequent about Waters, and of a 

 very beautiful Afpeft, The Trunk is co- 

 vered with a fmooth pale Bark, the Branches are 

 numerous, and grow with a Sort of Regularity. 

 The Leaves are fliort and broad, roundifh at the 

 Bafe, but ending in a Point ; they are of a glofiy 

 fhining Green, and {land on long Foot-Stalks. 

 The Flowers and Seeds are inconfiderable, they 

 appear in Spring, and are little regarded. 



The young Leaves of the black Poplar are ex- 

 cellent mixed in Pultices, to be applied to hard 

 painful Swellings. 



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