. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. NARROW-LEAF COTTONWOOD. PopuJus cnigiisfifolia Fig. 114. Fruiting branchlet. leaves and fruit; branchlets in winter, the lower one bearingmainly flower-buds. 115. Trunk of tree near Fort Collins, Colo. For this trunk picture and specimens the author is indebted to Prof. B. O. Longyear. Handbook of Trees of the Kortiikkn Stat (axA 101 The Xarrow-leai Cottonwood is a modium-size tree rarely surpassing 00 or 70 ft. inheight or 18 in. in thiekness of trunk. Itdevelops a rather nar
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. NARROW-LEAF COTTONWOOD. PopuJus cnigiisfifolia Fig. 114. Fruiting branchlet. leaves and fruit; branchlets in winter, the lower one bearingmainly flower-buds. 115. Trunk of tree near Fort Collins, Colo. For this trunk picture and specimens the author is indebted to Prof. B. O. Longyear. Handbook of Trees of the Kortiikkn Stat (axA 101 The Xarrow-leai Cottonwood is a modium-size tree rarely surpassing 00 or 70 ft. inheight or 18 in. in thiekness of trunk. Itdevelops a rather narrow top ofascending ])ale ashen gray branches, lightorange-brown lustrous branchlets of the .seasonand small buds. Tlie livid smooth bark of theyounger trunks becomes fissured with age. asthe trunk enlarges, and finally is furrowedwith dark firm ridges. Its small short-stemmed narrow green leaves are more sug-gestive of some of tlie broader-leaved Willowsthan of the other Poplars, and constitute afeature by which tliis tree is quickly recog-nized. It is the commonest Cottonwood over aconsiderable part of its range skirting tliebanks of stream
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