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THE BLACK POPLAR. 



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POPULUS NlGRA. 



Frufttfication. As the former. 

 Specific clarafter. Leaves trowel-fhaped, 

 ferrated. 



THE name of Hack feems given to this: 

 fpecies of poplar only in diftin&ion from 

 the white ; for its leaves ^re a pleafant 

 green, and the tree has nothing dark in its 

 appearance. The leaves are fmaller than 

 thofe of the preceding, and more angular. 

 The tree arrives at a greater fize, and is, 

 indeed, one of the talleft and moft ftately 

 to be feen, when arrived at full growth. It 

 loves a rich foil in a moift lituation, as the 

 banks of rivers and the borders of meadows. 

 It is a frequent tree in Lancafhire and 

 Chefhire, where the long FQWS of poplars 



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