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w ho called it montana ,31 well as Ljbictt, the other are expreffed to be of Lobel his declaration, and ot none before 
him, Homer in his fifth Iliad, calleth the white Poplar £%}ab Acheronte, becaufe wheen Hercules had over- 
come Cerberus, he came crowned with this Poplars branches, which he found growing by the river vAcheron, i n 
triumph ol that viftory, and from his example, all that with glory have conquered their enemies in fight, were 
wont to w'eare a garland of the branches thereof ; theirerrour that Sues,rum, yellow Amber was the gum of 
the blacke Poplar is fo ridiculous, that but to name it is fufficient confutation, elpecially feeing Matthio'lus hath 
done it before. The Arabians call the white and blacke Poplar Haur, and Haur romi, the Italians Popolo bianco 
and nero, the Spaniards Alamo blanco.sndnigri/Ho, the Trench Abeau, an dPeteplier, and Tremble, the Germans 
Bellen,Poppelbaum and Sarbaum ,the Dutch /tbcelboem, and Topelier wort, and We in Englijh ,the white and blacke 
Poplar tree,and the other the Afpc or Afpen tree. 
The Venues, 
The white Poplar faith galea, is ofa mixt temper, that is, of an hot watery, and of a thinneearthy efience and 
therefore it is of a clenfing property, the weight of an ounce in poutherot the batke of the white Poplar being 
drunke faith Diefcorides , is a remedy for thole that are troubled with the Sciatica or the Strangury, and thereupon 
Sapius occultus villa coxendtce morbsu 
P erfurit preftut diro languore moral Ur, 
Topulus alba dabit medicos de cortice potus. 
Serenas hath thele Veriest 
The juyee of the leaves dropped warme into the eares,eafcth the paincs in themtthe young bourgeons or eyes, 
before they breake out into leaves, bruifed and a little honey put to them.isagood medicine tor a dull fight: The 
blacke Poplar is held to be more cooling then the white, and therefore fome have with much profit applyed the 
leaveshrui ed with vinegar, to the places troubled with the gour, the leede is held good againfi the failing ficke- 
nelletobe drunkeinvinegar: the water that droppeth from the hollow places of the blacke Poplars, doth take 
away warts,pulbes, wheales, and other the like breakings out in the body : the young blacke Poplar buds faith 
Adatthiolus,3te muchufedhy women to hcautifie their haire, biuifing them with Irefh butter,and ftrayning them 
after they have bccne for lomc time kept in the Sunnt-: the oyntment called Populcon which is made of this Pop. 
laris lingulas goodforany hcate or inflammation in anypartofthe body, and doth alfo temper the heate of 
wounds ": it is much ufed to dry up the milke in womens breffs after their delivery, or w hen they have weyned 
their children. The Afpen leaves are in the like manner cooling,and are ufed for the fame purpofes that the blacke 
is,but are in all things farre weaker .Tragus it leemeth putteth the blacke Poplars inftcadof the white,and the A- 
(pen inllead of the blacke,as hisdeferiptions and figures declare. 
Chap. XVII. 
Taxus, The Yew tree. 
Tsxmi. The Yew tree. 
iHc Yew tree groweth with us in many places 
to be a reafonable greae tree fpreading many 
large branches.which make a goodly fliadew 
| covered with a reddifh rugged barke,ihe bo- 
' dy-, and elder boughes being more grayilh, 
andthe younger redder, whereon grow many winged 
leaves,that is many long and narrow darke greene leaves 
fomewhat foft in handling, and not hard as the Fine tree 
leaves are, whereunto they are compared by many let on 
both (ides ofa middle (lalkc, ahvayes abiding greene and 
not falling away in Winter: the flowers are fmall ami 
yellow.growing along clofe to the branches, where aft: r- 
wards the berries come forth, of the bigmffe and colour 
of the Holly, or Afparagus berries, fweere with a little 
bitternefle, and procuring no barmc to them that eate 
thcm.for any thing that 1 haveheard : the wood hereof 
is reddifh tough and (kong. 
The Place surd Time, 
This groweth in many places of this Land, but planted 
in all whether at home or abroad : it flowreth ufually in 
aAprill or A/cy,and the berries be ripe in Semptember,3nd 
Olhber, 
Latine Authours call it, except Cordus on Diofccridcs that 
calleth it M /**,and others Smilax ,becaufe it was gene¬ 
rally taken robe cither deadly or dangerous to eate there¬ 
of,or under it,or to deep under it alfo, which in our land is 
found contrary bymany men Ac children eating of the ber¬ 
ries without harme, it is thought that all poyfensbecame 
to be called Taxica ,and by time called Toxica, from hence 
the Italians cal it Taffo,the French If,she Germans Sibtnba - 
urn ,the Dtttchlbenboomflnd Bogenhout, and we in Englijb 
Yew 
The 
