PIOECIA OCTANDRiA. fejy 



utrinque glabris. Sp, pi. 1/^64. {Ger, em. 14^7^ 



The Afp, Afpen, or trembling Poplar. Jnglis, 



An Criothann. Gaulis. 



It is frequent in moift woods, both in the highlands 

 and lowlands. We obferved alio fome dwarf 

 plants of it in the weftern illes, as in Rum and 

 Mull, &c. h . IV. 



The bark of this tree is green and fmooth. The 

 leaves, at their firft eruption, are hairy above, 

 and cottony underneath, but, when full grown, 

 are fmooth, (lightly heart-fhap'd, or nearly 

 round, with a few angular dents on the ed^es, 

 and fupported on long footftalks, which are 

 comprefled at the top, fo that the leaves are per- 

 petually trembling with every breath of wind- 

 At the bafe of the young leaves are two united 

 glands. 



It is a tree of fpeedy growth. The bark of it is 

 the favourite food of beavers, where thofe ani- 

 mals are found. 



The wood is fofc and white, very light and fmooth. 

 It is ufed to make pannels or pack-faddles, wood 

 canns, milk-pails, clogs, pattens, &c. 



Horfes, fheep, and other animals, will feed on the 

 leaves. 



The Highlanders entertain a fuperftitious notion, 

 that our Saviour's crofs was made of this tree, 

 and for that reafon fuppofe that the leaves of it 

 can never rcfVo 



POPULUS, 



