. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Small Fruited Hickory 235 The branches are short and stout, forming a narrow cylindric tree. The gray bark is 6 to 20 mm. thick, separating into persistent strap-like plates often 3 dm. long. The twigs are very slender, smooth, glaucous, and purplish brown. The terminal buds are ovoid-lanceolate, 6 mm. long, tapering into a blunt point, their scales imbricated, hght brown and shining; the inner scales grow to a length of
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Small Fruited Hickory 235 The branches are short and stout, forming a narrow cylindric tree. The gray bark is 6 to 20 mm. thick, separating into persistent strap-like plates often 3 dm. long. The twigs are very slender, smooth, glaucous, and purplish brown. The terminal buds are ovoid-lanceolate, 6 mm. long, tapering into a blunt point, their scales imbricated, hght brown and shining; the inner scales grow to a length of 5 cm., are taper-pointed, and yellow; the lateral buds are oblong, blunt, and very small. The leaves are i to 2 dm. long; the leaf-stalk is slender, rounded, and nearly smooth, the leaflets 3 or 5, lanceo- late, sometimes very narrow, 6 to 15 cm. long, somewhat curved, gradually nar- rowed or rounded at the unequal, sessile base; they are long taper-pointed, coarsely toothed and hairy-fringed on the margin, thin and firm, dark green above, yel- lowish green and shining beneath. The upper leaflets are sometimes twice as long as the lower; the terminal leaflet is short- stalked; the leaves become characteris- tically dull yellow or dull brown in early autumn. The staminate catkins are in short-stalked clusters of 3, loosely flow- ered; bract nearly smooth, much longer than the lobes of the perianth; stamens 4. together, oblong, yellowish hairy. The fruit is subglobose, to 3 cm. in di- ameter, reddish brown; the husk is relatively thick, splitting completely into 4 valves; nut flattened, 4-angled, ovoid, pointed at the end and nearly white, or brownish; shell thin; seed large and sweet. The wood is hard, tough and strong, close-grained and Ught reddish brown. This tree has long been confused with the Shellbark hickory from which it differs in its thin twigs, smaller buds, and narrower Fig. 192. — Southern Shellbark. The pistillate flowers are mostly 2 II. SMALL FR
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