01 g DIOECIA OCTANDRIA. 



}£ra * 3. POPULUS foliis dckoidibus acumlnatis ferratis^ 

 Sp.pL 14.64. (Ger, e?n. 14.86./. 2. Blackwell t* 

 248.) 

 Black Poplar. Afiglis. 



It is a doubtful native, but often feen in the low- 

 lands near gentlemen's houfes, in avenues and 

 plantations. ^ . IV. 



On the banks of rivers, and in moiil fituations, it 

 grows up to a tall tree, throwing out numberlefs 

 fuckers from the roots. The bark is alh-co- 

 lour'd ; the leaves are fmooth, heart-lliaped and 

 acuminated, ferrated on the edges, but have no 

 indenture at the infertion of the footftalk ; their 

 ferratures are glandular on the infide, their foot- 

 ftalks long and yellowifh. 



It is a tree of quick growth, the trunk naked and 

 lofty, the head regular and beautiful. The 

 ■wood is light and foit, fometimes ufed by turners. 

 The buds yield a yellow refmous unauent, for- 

 merly ufed as an emollient and foponlic, but is 

 now out of pradlice. 



The Indigent inhabitants of Cmntfchatca are fome- 

 times reduced to the neceflity of converting the 

 inner bark into bread. 



Of the cotton down of the feeds paper has been 

 made. 



The roots have been obferved to diiTolve into a kind 

 of gelatinous fubftance, and to be coated with a 

 fibular cruftaceous fpar, called by naturalifts 



OJleecolla^ 



