Poplar
a genus of Salicacex. Catjagged; disk cup-shaped, oblique, entire. drooping kins drooping, their scales usually Males, stamens 4 to 30; females, stigmas, capsule two-celled, loculicidal. Known species 18, from the N. temperate zone.
Two, Populas alba, the great white poplar or abele, and P. poplar or aspen, lar, is only naturalized. The first is a are indigenous. P. nigra, the black popare indigenous. P. nigra , the black poplarge tree with downy , but not viscous buds. It grows in moist places and mountain woods. The timber is white, soft, and used only for coarse work.
The bark is said to be useful in strangury. For the second species, see has viscid buds, leaves grows in moist places, on river banks, etc. The wood is light, and not very suborbicular. It valuable. It is used for carving, or burnt for charcoal, and the bark employed for tannin.
P. monilifera is the black Italian poplar, P. fastigiata, the Lombardy poplar, and P. canadensis, the Canadian poplar. The buds of P. nigra, balsamifera, P. candicans, etc., are besmeared in winter with dation, called tacamahac, considered to a resinous balsamic, bitter , aromatic exube diuretic, and antiscorbutic . The bark of P. euphratica is given in India as a vermifuge. The poplar occurs in the Cretaceous rocks of North America, the , and the Miocene of Continental Europe. watered, figured, brocaded, or tissued.