274 FAMILY HERBAL' 



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

 fleshy part, are contained many large ilat 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 emulsion 

 as milky as almonds, and are preferable to them, 

 and all the cold seeds, in stranguries and heat of 

 urine. 



Black. Poplar. Populus nigra. 



A tall tree, frequent about waters, and of a 

 very 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 

 on long foot stalks. The (lowers and seeds are 

 inconsiderable ; they appear in spring, and are little 

 regarded. 



The young leaves of the black poplar are excellent 

 mixed in pultices, to be applied to hard painfu. 

 swellings. 



White Poppy. Papaver album. 



A tall and beautiful plant, kept in our gar- 

 dens, a native of the warmer climates. It grown 

 a yard and half high : the stalk is round, smooth, 

 upright, and of a bluish green ; the leaves are 

 very 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 white, one 

 stands at the ton of each division of the stalk : 



