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and stop blood at the nose : The distill'd-water is good 

 against the epilepsy, apoplexy, vertigo, trembling of 

 the heart, gravel ; Schroder commends a mucilage of 

 the bark for wounds, repe liens urinam, G? menses ciens^ 

 &c. And I am told, the juice of the leaves fixes colours. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Of the Poplar^ Aspen, and Abele. 



i. 'Popu/us. I begin this second class (according 

 to our former distribution) with the poplar, of which 

 there are several kinds ; white, black, Qfc. (which in 

 Candy 'tis reported bears seed) besides the aspen. 

 The white (famous heretofore for yielding its umbram 

 hospitalem) is the most ordinary with us, to be rais'd 

 in abudance by every set or slip. Fence the ground 

 as far as any old poplar-roots extend, they will furn- 

 ish you with suckers innumerable, to be slipp'd from 

 their mothers, and transplanted the very first year : 

 But if you cut down an old tree, you shall need no 

 other nursery. When they are young, their leaves 

 are somewhat broader and rounder (as most other 

 trees are) than when they grow aged. In moist and 

 boggy places they will flourish wonderfully, so the 

 ground be not spewing ; but especially near the marg- 

 ins and banks of rivers, 



Populus in fluviis 



and in low, sweet, and fertile ground ; yea, and in the 

 dryer likewise. Also trunchions of seven or eight 

 foot long, thrust two foot into the earth, (a hole 



