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*61. Populus nigra folio maximo, gemmis balfamum odoratifimum fundentibus. 
The Poplar of Carolina. 
This tree is feldom found but near rivers, above the inhabited parts of the country: it grows 
| very large and of a great height. Its leaves are large; {mooth on one fide, and ferrated, or 
rather edged with {mall indentures; and in fhape refemble thofe of the black poplar which | 
Parkinson defcribes. The foot-ftalks are long, remarkably flat, and of a reddifh colour, as 
are the larger veins of the leaves. In April, at which time only I faw them, they had thed 
their feeds ; but by what remained I could perceive that they hang in clufters; and are covered 
with an odoriferous balfam, which iffues out of and fticks to the large fwelling buds of _ tree. 
It is the quickeft grower of any tree I — and is eafily multiplied by cuttings. 
“62. Fraxinus Carolinenfis, foliis anguftioribus utringue acuminatis, peudulis. 
_ Thefe trees are commonly of a mean height, and the leaves are pointed at both ends: the 
feeds are winged, and hang in clufters, They grow in low moift places. , 
*6 3. Acer Virginianum folio majore fubtus fupra viridi Splendente. 
: The Red flowering Maple. 
Thefe tices grow to a confiderable height; but their trunks are feldom very large. In Fe- 
bruary, before the leaves appear, its little red bloffoms open; and continues in flower about 
three weeks, and are then fucceeded by the keys, which are alfo red, and with the flowers 
continue fix weeks; adorning the woods earlier than moft other trees in Carolina and Virginia. 
They endure the air of our Englifh climate as well as their native one. 
. The feeds of this tree being fucculent, retain their growing faculty but a fhort time: ; theres 
ore, as the trees that are already in England do not produce perfe& feeds, there is no other 
way of increafing them but by laying, or poflibly by inarching on our native maple. 
*64. Acer Americanum, &e. 
Se. he American flowering Maple, with larger bunches of flowers. ° 
| : *65. cer 
