. 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. Pale Hickory 229 to 10 cm. long; bract ovate, pointed, twice the length of the lobes of the perianth, which are almost equal; stamens 4, their anthers ovate, deeply notched at the top and yellow. The pistillate flowers are blunt, 4-angled, about 12 mm. long, curved, scurfy hairy. The fruit is subglobose, 2 to< cm. long, narrowly 4-winged for about half its length, with yellowish and scurfy hairs; its husk is abo
. 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. Pale Hickory 229 to 10 cm. long; bract ovate, pointed, twice the length of the lobes of the perianth, which are almost equal; stamens 4, their anthers ovate, deeply notched at the top and yellow. The pistillate flowers are blunt, 4-angled, about 12 mm. long, curved, scurfy hairy. The fruit is subglobose, 2 to< cm. long, narrowly 4-winged for about half its length, with yellowish and scurfy hairs; its husk is about 3 mm. thick, tardily and irregularly 4-valved; nut ovoid or oblong, slightly flattened, short-pointed, smooth, grayish, the shell thin; seed very bitter, deeply 2-lobed, reddish brown. The wood is hard, close-grained, strong and tough, dark brown; its specific gravity is about It is largely used for fuel, hoops, tool handles and other purposes. This is a handsome tree and probably the most rapid growing of the hickories, holding its fohage long after that of the others has fallen, and deserves wider use in ornamental planting. 6. PALE HICKORY —Hicoria pallida Ashe Hicoria villosa pallida Ashe This tree occurs in dry soils from southern Virginia and Tennessee south to Florida and Alabama, reaching a height of about 30 meters, with a trunk diame- ter of I m. The trunk and its branches resemble the Pignut. The bark is deeply fur- rowed into rough ridges of a gray color. The twigs are purple-brown. The ter- minal bud is ovoid, 5 to 7 mm. long, dark brown and hairy with 5 to 9 scales, the lateral buds being very small. The leaves are scurfy hairy, to dm. long, tlje leaf-stalk slender, hairy, at least when young. Leaflets 7 to 9, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, slightly curved, 5 to 15 cm. long, the lower pair much the smallest, long taper-pointed at the apex, rounded and unequal at the sessile base, closely toothed on the margin; the terminal leaflet is about. 187
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