WILLOW FAMILY 
light brown, smooth, dilated and irregularly divided, caducous. 
Stamens sixty or more, with short filaments and large dark red 
anthers, inserted on a broad oblique disk.  Pistillate tree sparsely 
flowered. Ovary subglobose, surrounded at base by a cup-shaped 
disk. Stigmas three to four, dilated or lobed. 
Fruit,—Mature aments eight to twelve inches long. Capsule ob- 
long-ovate, acute at apex, dark green, three to four-valved. Seed 
oblong-ovate, rounded at apex, surrounded by a tuft of long white 
or slightly rusty hairs which make up the mass of delicate cotton 
that has given this tree its common name. 
With its massive pale stem, its great spreading limbs and broad head of pen- 
dulous branches covered with fluttering leaves of the most brilliant green, Pof- 
ulus deltoides is one of the stateliest and most beautiful inhabitants of the forests 
of eastern America. 
—CHARLES S. SARGENT. 
This is the tree that under the name of Carolina Poplar is 
extensively planted in cities. It is proving itself an admir- 
able shade-tree for the cities of the middle west where soft 
coal is burned. Its smooth glossy leaves have just enough 
natural varnish about them to keep the soot from clinging, 
and so they are bright and clean and healthy when those of 
the elm and the maple are soiled and choked and dying. 
WHITE POPLAR. ABELE-TREE 
Pédpulus ala. 
The poplar that with silver lines his leaf. 
—COoOwWPER. 
The green wood moved and the light poplar shook 
Its silver pyramid of leaves. 
—Barry CorRNWALL. 
The ancients consecrated the White Poplar to time because the leaves are 
in continual agitation ; and being of a blackish green on one side, with a thick 
white cotton on the other they were supposed to indicate the alternation of day 
and night. 
—Sentiment of lowers. 
The English name of this tree is derived from the Dutch 
name, Abeel ; it is believed to have come into England by way 
of Holland. 
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