. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. HICORIA and Ittchiiosa, for which see Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 7, pi. 20-23 aud Gng. 2:226. See Pecan. myristic8ef6rmis, Britt. (Carxja myristicafdrmis, Nutt.). NuTMEO-HiCKORY. Tree, to 100 ft. with dark brown bark, broken into appressed scales : Ifts. 5-11, short-stalked or almost sessile, ovate-laneeolate, the upp
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. HICORIA and Ittchiiosa, for which see Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 7, pi. 20-23 aud Gng. 2:226. See Pecan. myristic8ef6rmis, Britt. (Carxja myristicafdrmis, Nutt.). NuTMEO-HiCKORY. Tree, to 100 ft. with dark brown bark, broken into appressed scales : Ifts. 5-11, short-stalked or almost sessile, ovate-laneeolate, the uppermost much larger and obovate, serrate, scurfy-pu- bescent beneath when young and with brown scales above, at length dark green above, silvery and lustrous beneath, 3-5 in. long: staniinate catkius peduncled: fr. generally solitary, sbortovoid or obovate, about IK in. long; nut ovoid, reddish brown marked with irregular spots and stripes, thick-shelled, 4-celled below; kernel sweet. From S. Car. to Ark. and Mex. 7:342^ A very decorative species on account of its handsome foliage, but not hardy North. BB. Nut usually as broad as long, compressed teith irregularly angled or reticulate surface, thin- shelled, 4-celled below : kernel bitter. aquAtica, Britt. (Carya aqndtica, Nutt.). Water- Hickory. Bitter Pecan. Usually small tree, rarely to 100 ft., with light brown bark separating into long, thin plates: Kts 7-i:i, sessile or short-stalked, lanceolate, long-acuminate, linelr si'rrate, yellowish tomentosc when young, glabrous at leii^-th. fr. 3-4, ovoid to broadly obo- vate, 1-1'i in. long; husk thin, splitting to the base; nut obovate, much compressed, irregularly angled and ridged, dull reddish brown; kernel very bitter. From Va. to III., south to Fla. aud Te.\. 7:344-45. 12, 7-8. minima, Britt. (Carya nmdra, Nutt.). Bitter Nut. SwAMP-HicKOKY. Tree, to 100 ft.: bark grayi^^h brown, broken into tliin scales; young branches and petioles glabrous: Ifts. 5-9,
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