. 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. 224 The Hickories Bark shaggy, at least when old; fruit subglobose to oblong. Fruit little flattened; bract of staminate calyx short. Fruit much flattened; bract of staminate calyx long. Bark dose, not shaggy; fruit more or less obovoid. Foliage glabrous or little pubescent; bract of staminate calyx sometimes elongated; anther-sacs acute. Foliage pubescent or scurfy; bract of staminate calyx short, blunt; anther-sacs obtu
. 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. 224 The Hickories Bark shaggy, at least when old; fruit subglobose to oblong. Fruit little flattened; bract of staminate calyx short. Fruit much flattened; bract of staminate calyx long. Bark dose, not shaggy; fruit more or less obovoid. Foliage glabrous or little pubescent; bract of staminate calyx sometimes elongated; anther-sacs acute. Foliage pubescent or scurfy; bract of staminate calyx short, blunt; anther-sacs obtuse. 11. H. microcarpa. 12. H. borealis. 13. H. glabra. 14. H. viUosa. I. NUTMEG HICKORY —Hicoria myristicsfonnis (F. A. Michaux) Britten Juglans myristiceBformis F. A. Michaux. Carya myristicaformis Nuttall This Hickory grows in rich soil on the borders of streams and swamps, occur- ring from South Carolina to Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas, and adjacent Mexico. Its maximum height is 35 meters, with a trunk diameter of i m.; it is called Bitter walnut in Louisiana. The trunk is tall and straight, the branches mostly stout, somewhat spreading. The bark is 12 to 18 mm. thick, shal- lowly fissured into irregular, close, dark reddish brown scales. The twigs are slender, covered with brownish or yellowish scales, hairy, soon becoming smooth, light brown or gray and finally dark brown, with triangular leaf scars. The terminal bud is broadly ovoid, 3 to 6 mm. long, rather blunt, covered by scurfy, thick scales; the axillary buds are much smaller and pointed. The leaves are i to 3 dm. long, with slender, slightly grooved scurfy leaf- stalks. The leaflets, 5 to 9 in num- ber, are thin, firm, short-stalked, or nearly sessile, obovate to ovate-lan- ceolate, 5 to 12 cm. long, slightly curved, unequally tapering or some- what rounded at the base, sharp or Fig. Hickory. taper-pointed, rather coarsely toothed on the margin; the terminal leaflet is symmetrical and taper
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