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leaves, brolBed, and a little honey pat to them, is a good 

 medicine for dull si^ht. The Blact ia more cooling; than 

 the White ; the leaves bruised, and applied with vinegar, 

 help the gout. The seed drank in vinegar, is good against 

 falling-sickness. The water that drops from the hollows of 

 this tree, takes away warts, pushes, wheals, and break- 

 ings-out of the body. The leaves and buds are used to 

 make the Unguent PopuJeon ; but as the Black is hot, the 

 ointment cannot receive virtue from its leaves or bads, but 

 from the other ingredients which are put in it. 



POPLAR (WHITE.)--(^Pop2*ZtM Alba.) 



Descrip. — This kind grows gr^t and high, covered with 

 thick, smooth, white bark, especially the branches, having 

 long leaves cut into several divisions almost like the vine 

 leaf, but not so deep green on the upper side, and hoary 

 white underneath, of a reasonable good scent, the whole 

 representing the form of coltsfoot The catkins which it 

 brings forth before the leaves, are long, and of a faint red- 

 dish colour, which fall away, bearing seldom good seed 

 with them. The wood is smooth, soft, and white, very 

 finely waved, whereby it is much esteemed. 



POPPY {BLkCK.)^( Fapaver Nigrum,) 



Dfcrip, — This does not grow so high as the White, bat 

 in other respects it is much like it. The chief difference 

 is in the flower, which in this is of a purplish colour, with 

 a black bottom ; and in the heads which do not grow the 

 same nize, and contain black seed. The roots of ooth are 

 ■ticky, and perish when the seed is ripe. 



place, — It is sown in gardens. 



Tim^—XX. flowers in June and July. 



FiWt^e*.— The heads are rarely used, being left alone 

 with the other. The flowers are however of a gentle sudo- 

 niic nature, and are peculiarly good in pleurisies, quinaieSy 

 and all disorders of the breast 



POPPY (CROWFOOT.)— (PapavtfT Ranuncului 

 Lati/olius.) 



Descrip. — The stalk is thick and naked, round and fleshy. 

 The leaves are irregular and few, stripped into many divi- 

 ded aegmenU, and of a jpale green colour. The flower is 

 large and single, growing at the top of the stalk; the usnal 

 colour of it is bright scarlet, but it is sometimes yellow or 

 white. In the middle ia a to^t of yellow threads. 



