. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Trees of the Northeen States and Canada. 107 The Swamp Poplar where conditions are favorable for best development, in the lower Mississippi Valley, attains a height of 80 or 90 ft., with straight columnar trunk 2-3 ft. in diameter vested in a grayish brown bark with prominent scaly ridges, and develops an open irregular top with few large branches. In the Atlantic states it rarely attains a greater height than 40 or 50 ft. Here it is rare and local and is confined to th
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Trees of the Northeen States and Canada. 107 The Swamp Poplar where conditions are favorable for best development, in the lower Mississippi Valley, attains a height of 80 or 90 ft., with straight columnar trunk 2-3 ft. in diameter vested in a grayish brown bark with prominent scaly ridges, and develops an open irregular top with few large branches. In the Atlantic states it rarely attains a greater height than 40 or 50 ft. Here it is rare and local and is confined to the borders of ponds and swamps more or less permanently in- undated. In the Mississippi basin it is more abundant, and it is found in company with the Honey and Water Locusts, Mississippi Hack- berry, Swamp White Oak, Red and Drummond Maples, Sweet Gums, Tupelos, etc. The wood of the Swamp Poplar is of a grayish brown color with light sap-wood. A cubic foot when absolutely dry weighs lbs. It is manufactured into lumber, under the name of Black Poplar, for interior finish- ing, Leaves 4-8 in. Ion?, broad ovate with petioles long and terete, va'i-ying from round to cordate at base, crenate, obtuse or subacute at apex, covered with white woolly tomentiim at first but finally glabrous with brown buds acute or obtuse, resin- ous. Flowers (.\pril-JIay) s;labrous scarious fim- bricated scales, staminafe ampnts stout, densely- flowered, finally 2-.'^. in. Ion':; and drooping; stamens 12-20; pistillate aments small, raceme- like, few-flowered with short style : ovary ovoid, and thick 2 or -S-lobed stigmas. Fruit (ripe in May) with ovoid-oblong pointed 2-;i-valved cap- sules, shorter than or equalling the pedicels. 1. A. W., IV, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1
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