. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. 194 Populus nigra. POPLAK. Popuhcs nigra, Linn. sp. pi. 1464. Smiths Eng. Bot. t. 1910. Id. Eng. Flor. iv. p. Flor. Scot. p. Flor. Hibern. part i. p. Arb. Brit, part m. p. 1652. The specific or botanical characters of this species, ac-cording to Smith and Hooker, are, leaves deltoid, pointed,serrated, smooth on both sides, catkins lax, cylindrical,stigmas four, simple and spreading. BLACK POPLAR. 195 The wide distribution of this species throughout Britain,and the localities
. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. 194 Populus nigra. POPLAK. Popuhcs nigra, Linn. sp. pi. 1464. Smiths Eng. Bot. t. 1910. Id. Eng. Flor. iv. p. Flor. Scot. p. Flor. Hibern. part i. p. Arb. Brit, part m. p. 1652. The specific or botanical characters of this species, ac-cording to Smith and Hooker, are, leaves deltoid, pointed,serrated, smooth on both sides, catkins lax, cylindrical,stigmas four, simple and spreading. BLACK POPLAR. 195 The wide distribution of this species throughout Britain,and the localities in which we have seen it growing appa-rently in a wild and natural state, are strongly in favour ofits being indigenous, although Sir W. J. Hooker, in the Flora Scotica,1 mentions it as of doubtful origin ; nothinghowever is said by the old English authors to lead to sucha conclusion, and we find that its geographical distributionis nearly co-extensive with that of Pop. alba, and It is a tree of rapid and vigorous growth, andattains the size of one of the fi
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