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The published records of the distribution are as follows: Dela- 
ware (Phinney); Franklin (Meyncke); Gibson (Schneck); Hamilton 
(Wilson); Kosciusko (Clark); Marion (Wilson); Miami (Gorby); 
Posey (Schneck); Steuben (Bradner). 
Additional records are: Putnam (Grimes); Franklin and Wells 
(Deam). 
Horticultural value. Grows rapidly, adapted to all kinds of soil, 
though its preference is for a moist rich soil, propagated either by 
cuttings or seedlings, transplants easily, stahds pruning well, com- 
monly develops a broad and open crown, leaf period long and has 
few insect or fungous enemies. It is valued as a shade and orna- 
mental tree. An objectionable character of this tree is its habit of 
sending up shoots from the roots. 
2. Populus grandidentata Michaux. Quaktna Asp. CorTon- 
woop. Poprie. Plate 20. Bark smooth, grayish-green, becoming 
furrowed and dark brown on the trunks of old trees that grow in 
the northern part of the State, especially when found growing in 
swampy conditions. In the southern part of the State where the 
tree grows on the top of hills the bark does not darken so much and 
frequently remains a light gray to maturity or becomes only a dark 
gray color; shoots at first hairy, becoming smooth at the end of the 
season; leaves broadly ovate with large and irregular teeth, short 
pointed, truncate or slightly heart shaped at the base, hairy when 
expanding, smooth at maturity; petioles strongly flattened at right 
angles to the plane of the blade; staminate catkins 2-8 cm. (1-3 
inches) long, the pistillate catkins at maturity reaching 6-12 cm. 
(214-5 inches) in length; stamens less than 15; flowering season 
March, April or May. Trees usually about 10-20 m. (30-65 feet) 
high and less than 4 dm. (16 inches) in diameter. 
Distribution. Nova Scotia, Ontario and northern Minnesota, 
southward to the Ohio River and along the Alleghany Mountains 
south to North Carolina. Locally distributed in all parts of In- 
diana. It is frequent or common in swamps, along the border of 
streams or in drier situations. In the northern part of the State 
it is generally found in moist conditions and exceptionally found in 
dry situations, while in the southern part of the State it is found 
either in moist conditions along streams or in dry situations such as 
the tops of hills. In Montgomery County along Sugar Creek it was 
noted on a high ridge associated with the hemlock. In moist con- 
ditions along streams it is usually found growing in colonies. When 
