the Poplar, a genus of plants belonging to the dioecia class; and in the natural method ranking under the 50th order, Amentaceae. See Botany Index.

The poplar, one of the most beautiful of the aquatic trees, has frequently been introduced into the poetical descriptions of the ancients; as by Virgil, Ec. vii. 66. ix. 41. Georg. ii. 66. iv. 511. Æn. viii. 31. 276.; by Ovid, Amom. Parid. 27.; by Horace, Carm. ii. 3. and by Catullus, Nupt. Phil. et Theb. 290., &c. &c.