*^88 Of the Hiflory of Plants. Lib. 3. 
turning vp a lane at the farther end of a village called Black-wall, from London -and inEflexat a 
place called Ouenden,andin diners other places. 
1 he Indian Poplar groweth in molt parts of the Illands of the Weft Indies. 
The Time. 
Thefe trees dobud forth in theend of March and beginning of Aprili,at which time the buds 
niuft be gathered to feme for ynguentiim Populeon. 
The Names* 
The white Poplar is called in Greeke, a,...- : in Latine, Populus alba : of diuers, Far far as , as of 
Plautus in his Comedie Pcnulus, as you may fee by his words fet downein the chap, of Colts-foot 
M- 8 i?- 
It is called in hrgh-Dutch, poppcMtim.t^etfy 3HbEthaUllt i in low-Dutch.lheclcfhis ho- 
ne or aged colour, and alfo StUtelbOOlUC; which the Grammarians doe falfly interpret i^ibies the 
Firre tree: in Italian, Popolonero •• in French, Peuplierblanc , Aubelfibel , or Mean : in Englift white 
Poplar tree, and Abeell, after the Dutch name. b J 
The fecond is called in Greeke, ai^ : in Latine, Populus nigra by Petrus Crefctntius, Albums- m 
high-Dutch, 3fpESJ : m low-Dutch, ^OptlUct : in Italian, Popolo nero : in French, Peuplierneir • in 
Spanifli, ^yilanw mgaillio - in Englilli, Poplar tree, blacke Poplar, and Peplcr. The firftor new 
fprung buds whereot are called of the Apothecaries, Oiuli Populi, Poplar buds : others chufc rather 
to call it Gemma Populi fome of the Grecians name it .• -whereupon they grounded their er 
ror, who rafhly fuppofed that thoferofenny or clammy buds are not to be put or vfedinthe com- 
pofition of the ointment bearing thename i of the Poplar,and commonly called in Englilh Po 
pilion and Pompillion , but the berries thatgrowincIufters,in which there is no clamminefTe at 
all. 
They are alfo as far deceiued, who giuing credit to Poets fables, do beleeue that Amber com 
rneth of the clammy rolin falling into the riuer Poo. 
The third is called ofdiuers, Populus trermda, which word is borrowed of the French men who 
name it Tremble : it alfo receiued aname amongft the low-Countrey men, from the noife and rat 
ling of the leaues, WatCClCC : this is that which is named of Pliny ,Libyca • and by Theophr 
which C,aza calleth Populus montana . in Englifb, Afpe, and Alpen tree, and may alfo be called 
Tremble, after the French name,conli dering it is the matter whereof womens tongues were made 
(as the Poets and fome others report) which feldomceafe wagging. * 
«T The Temperature andVertues, 
A The white Poplar hath a clenfing facultie, faith Galen, and a mixt temperature, confifting of a 
waterie warme eflence, and alfo a thin earthy fubftance. ° 
B The barke, as Die fancies writeth, to the weight of an ounce (or as others fay, and that more tru- 
ly, of little more than a dram) is a good remedie for the Sciatica or ache in the huckle bones.and 
for the ftrangurie. o 
C I hat this, barke is good for the Sciatica, Serenus Sammonicus doth alfo write: 
S aphis occultus villa coxendice morbus 
Perfnrtt, <£r greffus diro languor e moratur : 
Populus alba dabit medicos de corticepotus. 
An hidden difeafedoth oft rage and raine, 
The hip ouercome and vex with the paine, 
It makes with vile aking one tread flow and fhrinke • 
The barkeof white Poplar is helpe had in drunke. * 
D Inc famebarke is alfo reported to make a woman barren, if it be drunke with the kidney of a 
b~ nd'-d”^ ^ le ^ eaues bkew ife are thought to perform, being taken after the floures or reds 
E The warrne iuice of the leaues being dropped into the eares doth take away the paine thereof. 
F The rolin or clammy fubftance of the blacke Poplar buds is hotand dry, and of thin pares atte- 
nuating and mollifying : it is alfo fitly mixed acopit & malagmatis : the leaues haue in a manner the 
like operation for all thefe things, yet weaker, and not foeffeAuaH, as Galen teacheth. 
G The leaues and yong buds ofblacke Poplar doe afTwage thepaineof the gout in the hands or 
feet, being made mtoan ointment with May butter. 
H The ointment made of the buds is good againft all inflammations, brufes,fquats,falls,and fuch 
like : this ointment is very well knowne to the Apothecaries. 
I Paulas *Mgineta teacheth to make an oile alfo hereof, called <ABgfrmm,oxoi\t ofblacke Poplar. 
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