Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 718 782 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Populus balsamifera Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 1034. 1753 . "Habitat in America septentrionali." RCN: 7465. Lectotype (Rouleau in Rhodora 48: 105. 1946): Herb. Linn. No. 1185.6 ( LINN ) . Current name: Populus balsamifera L. ( Salicaceae ). Note: Although some earlier authors (e.g. Farwell in Rhodora 21: 101. 1919) rejected this as a nomen ambiguum , Rouleau ( l.c. 48: 103-110. 1946) studied the case in some detail and concluded that the name should continue to be used for the Northern Balsam Poplar.