414 lxxxv. salicace^e. [ Populus . 
Scottish mountains, rare. Glen Dole, Whitewater, Canlochan, t 
and Glen Callader, all in the Clova mountains, Angusshire ; Meal- 
Cuachlar, 8 m. west of Killin. k • 5, 6. — About 2 (or when culti- i 
vated 3) feet high, with large pale-grayish shaggy foliage, and golden 
catkins that may be reckoned among the handsomest of the genus. 
Style never cloven to the base ; stigmas usually entire, but sometimes 
cloven on the same specimens. Stamens mostly 2, but occasionally 
3; filaments quite distinct in our specimens, but we believe they have 
been sometimes observed more or less combined. Stipules towards 
the extremity of the autumnal shoots often longer than the petiole, 
but lower down sometimes not half as long. 
2. Populus Linn. Poplar. 
Scales of the catkins usually incise, very rarely quite entire. 
Perianth cup-shaped, oblique, entire, surrounding the stamens 
and pistil; nectariferous glands 0. — Barren fi. Stamens 4 — 30. 
— Fertile ft. Stigmas 2, bipartite or 3 — 4-cleft. Caps. 2- 
celled by the introflexion of the edge of the valves, loculicidal. — 
Name : populus , or the tree of the people , for such it was esteemed i 
to be in the time of the Homans ; or rather from n-anraWtu, to 
shake, on account of the tremulous motion of the leaves. 
* Scales of catkins hairy or silky. Cathins in fruit dense. Stamens 
4 — 8. Stigmus with narrow divisions. Leuce. 
1. P. *ulba L. ( great white P., or Abele) ; leaf-buds downy 
not viscous, leaves roundish-cordate lobed toothed glabrous and 
shining above downy and very white beneath, old ones some- 
times glabrous, fertile catkins while flowering more slender 
than the barren ones, scales entire or incise only at the apex, 
those of the barren flowers woolly of the fertile ones thinly 
hairy, stigmas (yellow) bipartite their segments linear. E. B. 
t. 1618. 
Moist and mountain woods, h . 3, 4. — A large tree, with smooth 
bark and spreading branches, of very rapid growth. Old leaves some- 
times quite glabrous on both sides. Scales of the fertile catkins 
caducous. It is impossible to say where this species, now so much 
cultivated, is truly indigenous, or if it have the smallest pretensions 
to he a native of this country. The late Dr. Graham informed us 
that it never flowered about Edinburgh, indicating that it was a much | 
more southern plant. All the British species have the young branches ' 
and shoots cylindrical. 
2. P. *canescens Sm. (gray P .) ; leaf-buds downy not viscous, ’ 
leaves roundish deeply-waved toothed hoary and downy beneath, 
old ones sometimes glabrous, fertile catkins as large as the bar- 
ren ones, scales of both deeply palmatifid and sericeo-pilose, 
stigmas (purple) cuneate irregularly 3 — 4-lobed. E. B. t. 1619. 
Wet turfy meadows and dry heaths, scarcely indigenous. Frequent 
in Norfolk: Sm. k . 3, 4. — Tree tall and handsome, of slower 
growth than the preceding, and producing better wood. Usually con- 
