. 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. 830 ARBORETUM £T FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM â t 14. P. balsami'fera L. The Balsam-bearing Poplar, or Tacamahac Tree. Identifkalion. Lin. Syst. Veg., 45.; Mich. North Amer. Sylva, 2. p. 237. t. 98.; Pursh Sept., 2. p. 618. Synonymes. P. Tacamali&ca Mill. Diet., No. 6.; the Tacamahac, Ame
. 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. 830 ARBORETUM £T FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM â t 14. P. balsami'fera L. The Balsam-bearing Poplar, or Tacamahac Tree. Identifkalion. Lin. Syst. Veg., 45.; Mich. North Amer. Sylva, 2. p. 237. t. 98.; Pursh Sept., 2. p. 618. Synonymes. P. Tacamali&ca Mill. Diet., No. 6.; the Tacamahac, Amer.; le Baumier, Fr.; Peu- plief Hard, and also Tacamahac, in Canada; Balsam Fappel, Ger. The Sexes. Plants of the male are in English gardens, and trees are occasionally found with male and female flowers on the same catkin. Engravings. Michx. North Amer. Sylva, 2. t. 98. f. 1. ; Du Ham. Arb., ed. nov., 2. t. ."iO.; Pall. Fl. Ross., 1. t. 4}.; the plate of this tree in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vii.; and our.;^*. 1507. and 1508., mdfig. 1509. from Pall. Ross. Spec. Char., Sfc. Shoot round. Bud very gummy. Petiole round. Disk of leaf ovate-acumitaate, or ovate-lanceolate, serrated with depressed teeth; deep green on the upper surface, whitish on the under one, and tomentose there, but rather inconspicuously so, and netted with glabrous veins. Sti- pules subspinescent, bearing gum. Stamens 16, or more. (^Michx.') A tree of the middle size. North America, in the most northern parts, and in Dahuria and Altai. Height 40 ft. to 50 ft. ; in America, 80 ft. Introduced in 1692. Flowers purplish ; March and April. Decaying leaves brown and Varieties. S P, 1507,1308,1509. P. balsamifera. .b. 2 HoH. P. viminalis Load. Cat. ed. 1836 ; P. ialicifolia P. longifolia Fischer, Pall. Boss. t. 41. B. (Our^g-. 1510. from a living plant.) âA native of Altai, with slender twiggy branches, and leaves nearly lanceolate. Lodd. i P. b. 3 latifolia Hort. âLeaves rather broader than tho
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