THE WHITE POPLAR, or 

 ABELE. 



POPULUS ALBA. PL 17. 



Fructification. Male and female flowers 

 upon feparate trees. The male in an 

 oblong catkin, each flower without 

 petals, and confifting of eight chives. 

 The female, in a catkin, without petals, 

 having a feed-bud changing into an 

 oval capfule, which contains feveral 

 fmall feathered feeds. 



Specific char after. Leaves rounded at the 

 bafe, tapering to a point, angularly in- 

 dented, blackifh green above, covered 

 with a thick cottony down beneath. 



T HJ s tree, which grows in woods and 

 hedge-rows, and efpecially in low moift 

 lituations, is very confpicuous from the 

 whitenefs of its foliage. 



The 



