. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. LXVIII. SALICA^CE^: PO'PULUS. 823. Its usual period of leafing, in England, is before that of P. tremula. Among the Cree Indians, the wood is esteemed to burn better, in a green state, than that of any other tree in the country. 2 5. P. (t.) grandidenta'ta Michx. The large-toothed-leaved
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. LXVIII. SALICA^CE^: PO'PULUS. 823. Its usual period of leafing, in England, is before that of P. tremula. Among the Cree Indians, the wood is esteemed to burn better, in a green state, than that of any other tree in the country. 2 5. P. (t.) grandidenta'ta Michx. The large-toothed-leaved Poplar, or North American large Aspen. Identification. Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 2. p. 243.; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 619. The Sexes. The female is represented in Michaux's figure. Engrmtjtgs. Michx. North Amer. Sylva, 2. t. 99. f. 2.; and our Jig. 1496. Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaf, when young, reddish, villous, afterwards glabrous on both sur- faces ; the petiole compressed in the terminal part; the disk roundish-ovate, acute, sinuately toothed with large un- equal teeth. (^Pursh.) A tree. Canada. Height 40 ft. to 50 ft. with a trunk 10 or 12 inches in diameter. Introduced in 1772. Flowers brown ; April. Decaying leaves dark brown or black. Variett/. i P. (t.) g. 2 pendula Michx. Flor. Bor. Amer. is said to have pen- dulous branches. H. S. The full-formed disk of the leaf is nearly round, and 2 or 3 inches in width, with large unequal indentsitions in the margins. The most ornamental of all the poplars, when the leaves expand in spring, from their deep purplish red colour. 1496. p. (t.) grandideiitiia. 't 6. P. GR«^CA Ait. The Grecian, or Athenian, Poplar. Idenlification. Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 1., 3. p. 407.; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 804.; N. Du Ham., 2. p. 18S. Derivation. The tree is supposed to be a native of North America, and to be named after the village called Athens, on the banks of the Mississippi, where the tree grows abundantly. See Gard. Mae^ 1840, p. 231. The Sexes. The
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