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AMENTIFER5). 261 



POPULUS, Linn. 



627. P. al'ba, L. 



River-sides and moist meadows ; rare. Tree. March, April, 

 * 1. P. eu-alba, Syme. P. alba, L. (Bab.). White Poplar. Dutch Abele. 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 382 ; iii. 607 Syme E. B. viii. t. 1299. 

 II. Staines Moor Farm. Hanworth Park. Sunbury, by the Thames, fine 

 trees. 



III. Harrow Grove ^ Melv. 72. 



IV. Hampstead ; Irv. MSB. 



VI. Finehley Common ; Lane near the ' Orange Tree/ Colney Hatch ; Herb. 



Hardw. 



VII. [In a low meadow turning up a lane at the further end of BlackwaU ; 



Gcr. 1302.] Kilburn, 1815 ; Herb. G. # i?. 



Introduced from Holland, probably not long before Gerarde's time. 



Loudon mentions specimens upwards of 100 feet high, on the banks of 



the Thames bet. Hampton Court and Chertsey. i^Arh. et Frut. 1644.) 



2. P. canescens, Sm. Grey Poplar. English Abele. 



P. alb gimilis fol. non incanis, ^e (Doody). Cyb. Br. ii. 383 ; iii. 508. 



Syme E. B. viii. t. 1300. 

 I. Pinner Place, probably introduced, Hind. 



IL By Hampton Court! ; Doody MS8. Several bushes by the towing 

 path bet. Hampton Court and Kingston Bridge. 



III. Group of large trees by the river near Twickenham Church. By the 



Cran near Mother Ive's Bridge. 



IV. Bishop's "Wood. Eoad bet. Finehley and Hendon ! ; Newb. 

 VI. A clump of fine trees near Warren Lodge, Edmonton. 



Probably native, but often planted. 



First record: Gerarde, 1597 ; also first as British. 



628. P. tremula, L. Aspen. 

 P. lybica, Matth. (Johns., Blackst.). 



Cyb. Br. ii. 384. Syme E. B. viii. t. 1301. 

 Moist woods and heaths ; rather rare. Tree. April. 

 I. Harefield ! ; Blackst. Fasc. 80. Harrow Weald Common. Near 

 Potter's Bar. 

 IIL Hounslow Drilling Ground ! ; Niwb. By the Cran near Hounslow. 

 IV. Hampstead Wood ; Johns. Eric. Bishop's and Turner's Woods, 

 abundant. Edgware, 

 VII. Hornsey Wood, 



Firet record ; Johnson, 1629. 



629. * P. nigra, L. BlaoJc Poplar. 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 384. Syme E. B. viii. t. 1302. 



Near rivers and in damp places ; rare. Tree. March. 

 I. Harefield ; Blarkst. Fasc. 80. Pinner Hall, &c. ; probably planted ; 

 Melv. 73, Wood Hail, Pinner. 



