. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. 184 Populus tremula. ASPEN, OR TREMBLING POPLAR, Pop. tremula Linn. sp. pi. 1464. Smiths Eng. Bot. p. 1909. Id. Eng. Flor. vol. iv. p. Flor. Scot. p. Flor. Hibern. part i. p. Flor. of Ber. 1. p. Arb. Brit. vol. i. ch. ciii. p. 1G45. The following- are the chief specific or distinguishingcharacters of this tree according to Smith and nearly orbicular, broadly toothed, glabrous on THE ASPEN, OR TREMBLING POPLAK. 185 both sides, petioles compressed, y
. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. 184 Populus tremula. ASPEN, OR TREMBLING POPLAR, Pop. tremula Linn. sp. pi. 1464. Smiths Eng. Bot. p. 1909. Id. Eng. Flor. vol. iv. p. Flor. Scot. p. Flor. Hibern. part i. p. Flor. of Ber. 1. p. Arb. Brit. vol. i. ch. ciii. p. 1G45. The following- are the chief specific or distinguishingcharacters of this tree according to Smith and nearly orbicular, broadly toothed, glabrous on THE ASPEN, OR TREMBLING POPLAK. 185 both sides, petioles compressed, young- branches hairy,stigmas four, erect and auricled at the base. For elegance and beauty of form, the Aspen, when grownin a favourable soil and where nothing has interfered withits developement, is inferior to few of its tribe, presentingthe appearance of a tall and, in proportion to its height,rather a slender tree, with a clean straight stem, the headample and formed of horizontal growing branches, notcrowded together, andwhich, as the tree ac-quires age, assume, to-war
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