THE POPLARS 



QUICK-GROWING trees with angled or round twigs, set with 

 Scaly buds, soft, light wood, and bitter bark. Leaves decidu- 

 ous, simple, alternate, usually broad, on long petioles. Flowers 

 dioecious, both kinds in crowded, pendulous catkins; each 

 flower subtended by a bract with deeply cut, hairy margin. 

 Fruit pendulous racemes of 2- to 4-valved pods; seeds minute 

 with dense, silky float attached. 



