LARGE-TOOTHED POPLAR (Populus grandidentata, Michx.). 

 50 to 75 feet. Narrow, round crown of stout, angular branches 

 on slender trunk. Bark dark, rough, deeply fissured between 

 broad ridges; branches gray-green, twigs pubescent at first. 

 Buds ovate, waxy. Wood pale brown, weak, soft. Leaves 

 thick, coarse, roundish, with irregular, rounded teeth on mar- 

 gin. Linings pale, somewhat downy. Petioles flattened, 

 2 to 3 inches long. Flowers in pendulous catkins on sepa- 

 rate trees; bracts notched, fringed; staminate red; pistillate 

 green, with forked stigmas. Fruit, hairy capsules, 2-valved, 

 thin- walled. Seeds minute, with wings of silky hairs, ripe 

 in May. Wind distributed. Dist.: Stream borders, Nova 

 Scotia to Minnesota; south to New Jersey, and on mountains 

 to North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky 



