. 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. 236 The Hickories for a few light-colored warts, dark brown or gray. The terminal bud is ovoid, blunt, about 15 mm. long, its scales 6 to 8, imbricated, the outer reddish brown and leathery, the inner hairy and continue to grow when the leaf expands, becoming to cm. in length. The leaves are 2 to 3 dm. long; leaf- stalk stout and channeled; leaflets 5 to 7, oval, ob- long or ovate, 6 to 14 cm. long, narrowed or ro
. 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. 236 The Hickories for a few light-colored warts, dark brown or gray. The terminal bud is ovoid, blunt, about 15 mm. long, its scales 6 to 8, imbricated, the outer reddish brown and leathery, the inner hairy and continue to grow when the leaf expands, becoming to cm. in length. The leaves are 2 to 3 dm. long; leaf- stalk stout and channeled; leaflets 5 to 7, oval, ob- long or ovate, 6 to 14 cm. long, narrowed or rounded at the imequal, sessile base, sharp or taper- pointed, coarsely but shallowly toothed on the margin; thick and firm at maturity, light green and shining above; the upper pairs are much the largest; the terminal one is broadest above the middle, narrowly tapering at the short-stalked base. The staminate catkins are in stalked clus- ters of 3, smooth or nearly so, the bract of the perianth slightly if any longer than the rounded lateral lobes, which are fringed with hairs. The Fig. Hickory. pigtiUate flowers are angular and covered with scurfy hairs. The fruit is subglobose, 2 to cm. in d'am<^, light brown, densely scaly and slightly wiuged; husk thin, tardily spUttin^ dui. ua t way to the base; nut buff-colored, slightly flattened, sharp-pointed, sometimes *^dghtly angu- lar; shell rather thin; seeds small and sweet. Its wood is similar to that of the Shellbark hickory, and makes excellent 12. NORTHERN HICKORY — Hicoria borealis Ashe A small tree of drjdsh hillsides, growing with the Small-fruited hickory in the vicinity of Detroit, Michigan, and probably in adjacent Ontario. The trunk and branches much resemble the Small-fruited hickory. The bark is deeply furrowed into narrow ridges, which become loose and shaggy with age. The twigs are slender, smooth, and bright brownish red; the terminal bud is ovoid-lanceolate, covered by 8 to 10
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