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ABELE 



by the narrower, lanceolate leaves and erect catkins, and 

 in winter by the deeper olive branches, buds with one 

 scale only, and fissured bark. 



Fig. 88. Populus alba, Abele. Bark (Irv). 



## Bark not scaling, fissured. Crown 

 elongated, rounded, pyramidal to 

 ovoid, or sub-spheroidal. Twigs 

 thick ; leaves pinnate and not white 

 tomentose beneath. Seeds not comose. 

 -f- Tree with a loose crown and ra- 

 diating stout and few branches 

 and tu-igs, the latter opposite and 



