276 OULPSPEB'S OOMPLETB HBRBAL. 



Flcioe. — It is a native of Italy and Spain, and needs the 

 ■belter of a green-house in this country. 



Oovemmeni and Virtiies. — This tree is under Mercury. 

 Both the flowers and bark of the fruit are strongly astrin- 

 gent ; a decoction of them stops bleedings and purgings of 

 all kinds, and is good for the whites. The pulp of the fruit, 

 when in perfection, is very grateful, and has the same gen- 

 eral qualities with the other acid fruits. A strong infusion 

 cures ulcers in the mouth and throat, and fastens teeth. 



PUMPKIN.— fCwcwrWto Pepo.) 



Deterip, — This takes up a ^reat compass of around, with 

 iti large, thick, creeping stalks, furnished with large claa- 



?3rs : its leaves are large and rough, like those of melons, 

 he flowers are large, like a yellow lily in colour. The fruit 

 ia large, having large, white, oval, flattish seeds. 

 Place,— It is sown on dunghills. 

 TifM, — It is ripe in September and October. 

 Qtyvemment and Virtues, — It is a moist plant under the 

 dominion of the Moon. The seed is cooling, of the nature 

 of the melon and other cold seeds, and may serve very well 

 to make emulsions. It is rarely used in medicine. 



POPLAB (BJjACK.}—(Populu8 Nigra,) 



Detcrip, — This tree grows higher and straighter than the 

 white, with a greyish bark, bearing broad green leaves, 

 like ivy leaves, not cut on the edges, but whole and dent- 

 ed, ending in a point, and not white underneath, hanging 

 by slender long footstalks, which are continually shaking. 

 The catkins are greater than those of the white, composed 

 of round green berries, as if set together in a long cluster, 

 containing much downy matter, which being ripe is blown 

 away with the wind. The clammy heads hereof, before 

 they spread into leaves, are of a yellowish green colour, 

 ■and small, somewhat sweet, but strong. 



Place. — It grows in moist woods, and by water-sides in 

 sundry places in England. 



Time, — The catkins come out before the leaves in summer. 



Oovemmeni and Virtues, — Saturn has dominion over 

 both White and Black Poplars. The White is of a cleans- 

 ing property; one ounce of the powdered bark drunk, is a 

 remedy for the sciatica, or the strangury. The juice of the 

 leaves dropped into the ears, eases the pains in theoL The 

 young clammy buds or eyes, before they break out into 



