6]^ DIOECIA QCTANDRIA. 



?%^^ * 3" rOPULUS foliis dekoidibus acuminatis ferratis. 

 Sp.pL ia6... (Ger. em, i/^B6.f. 2. Bktck'weil :. 



Black Poplar. AngHs. 



Ic is a doubtful native, but often ^^cn in the low- 

 lands near gentlemen's hoiifes, in avenues and 

 plantations. *, . IV". 



On the banks of rivers, and in moift fituatlons, it 

 grows up to a tall tree, throwing out numberlefs 

 fuckers frofti the roots, The bark is afh-co- 

 lour'd ; the leaves are loiKkOth, hpart-fhaped and, 

 acUoiitlated, ferfatcd on the edges, but have no 

 indehture ac the infertion of the footllalk ; their 

 ferratureS are glandular on the infide, ;hcir foot- 

 ftalks long and yellowifh. 



It is a tree of quick growth, the trunk naked and 

 lofty, the bead regular and beautiful. The 

 wood is light and fott, fomctimes ufed by turners. 

 The buds yield a yellow refinous unquent, for- 

 merly ufed as an emollient and foporific, but iS 

 now oUf of pracftice. 



The indigent inhabitants of C^w//rZ'^/f^ are fome- 

 times reduced to the necefliry of converting the 

 inner bark into bread. 



Of the cotton down of the leeds paper has been 

 made. 



The roots have been oblerved to diflblve into a kind 



of gelatinous fubftance, and to be coated with a 



tv'ibular criiflaopous fpar, called by uaturalifts 



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