( i°6 ) 
The Calyx is a common katkin, oblong, loofely imbricated, and 
cylindrical; compofed of Scales which are one flowered, ob- 
long, and plane, with the margin torn. 
The Corolla none, but 
A Ne Barium of one leaf, top ihaped and tubulous beneath, 
but oblique and terminating in an oval border above. 
The Filaments are eight, very fliort. The Anthene are four- 
cornered and large. 
* I he Female. 
The Katkm , Scales , and NeBaria , are like the Male. 
The Germen is ovate-iliarp pointed. The Style is fcarce mani- 
feft. The Stigma is four cleft. 
The Seed-vejjels are ovate capfules, two cell’d and two valv’d : 
the valves reflexed. 
The Seeds are numerous and ovate, with a volatile capillary 
pappus. 
Jhe Species, with us, are, 
i. Pop ulus deltoide. White Poplar, or Cotton 
Tree of Carolina . 
(Bartram’s Catalogue.) 
This becomes a tall tree, with a large eredt trunk, 
covered with a white, fmoothifh bark, refembling 
that of the Afpen tree. The leaves are large, gene- 
rally nearly triangular, toothed or indented with 
fharp and deep ferratures, of a fhining full green 
on their upper furface, but fo me what lighter or 
hoary underneath; ftandifig upon long llender foot- 
ftalks, and generally reftlefs or in motion. The 
timber is white, firm, and elaftic, principally ufed 
for fence rails. It grows naturally upon rich low 
lands, on the banks of large rivers in Carolina and 
Florida. 
2* POPULUS 
