38. 
THE ASPEN. 
Populus trenula. 
Puate 5, Fie. 5. 
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a 
M\\xbreezeless days of summer, the 
P))\- leaves of the Aspen have lent to 
<<". this Tree a charm unpossessed in 
the same degree by any other of 
the inhabitants of our woodlands. 
And how strangely: does this motion 
a touch us with a gentle sense of pleasure! 
>t How beautifully suggestive it is, when 
all else is still, of the life of Nature! The peculiar 
tremulousness of the Aspen leaves is owing to 
their exceptional smallness, to the slenderness of 
their stalks, and to the exceptional thinness of the 
depressed upper portion of the stalks—characters 
