WHITE POPLAR, OR ABELE TREE. 



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Popidus alba. Linn. 

 WHITE POPLAR, OR ABELE TREE. 



Populus alba, Linn. sp. pi. 1463. 



Smith's Eng. Bot. 623. t. xvi. Id. Eng. Flor. iv. p. 243. 

 Hooker's Br, Flor. p. 432. ed. n. 

 Mackay's Flor. Hibeni. part. i. p. 254. 



Provincial. Dutch Beech, Great White Poplar. 



Nearly as this tree is allied to the foregoing species, 

 we deem it most prudent under the circumstances of un- 

 certainty in which the genus is involved, to follow the 



