. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 59° SALICACEAE. Vol. 8. Populus tremuloides Michx. Ameri- can Aspen. Quiver-leaf. Fig. 1447. Populus tremuloides Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 243. 1803. A slender tree, with smooth, light green bark, reaching a maximum height of about ioo° and a trunk diameter of 30, the young foliage glabrous, excepting the ciliate margins of the leaves. Petioles very slender, f
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 59° SALICACEAE. Vol. 8. Populus tremuloides Michx. Ameri- can Aspen. Quiver-leaf. Fig. 1447. Populus tremuloides Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 243. 1803. A slender tree, with smooth, light green bark, reaching a maximum height of about ioo° and a trunk diameter of 30, the young foliage glabrous, excepting the ciliate margins of the leaves. Petioles very slender, flattened laterally, causing the leaves to quiver in the slightest breeze; leaves broadly ovate or orbicular, short-acuminate at the apex, finely crenulate all around, truncate, rounded or subcordate at base, i'-2i' broad, or those of very young plants much larger; bracts silky, deeply 3-5-cleft into linear lobes;_ aments drooping, the staminate 1Y-2Y long, 3"-4" in diameter, the pistillate longer, dense; stigma- lobes linear; capsule like that of the preceding species, but somewhat smaller. In dry or moist soil, Newfoundland to Hudson Bay and Alaska, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Nebraska, in the Rocky Mountains to Mexico and to Lower Cali- fornia. Ascends to 3000 ft. in the Adirondacks. American, trembling or white poplar. Quaking or mountain asp. Wood soft, weak, light brown ; weight per cubic foot 25 lbs. 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 Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York, Scribner
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