. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. anches and lowermost pendulous. It in-habits mainly well drained slopes and liill-sides in company with the Pig-nut and Shag-bark Hickories, various Oaks, the Red Cedar,Dogwood, Sassafras, etc. The wood is firm, strong and tough and isused in tlie maiuifactiire of agricultural im-plements, tool-handles, etc., and makes ex-cellent The nuts are sweet and of de-licious flavor but too small to be of commercialimportance. Leaves 8-12 or 15 in. long, glabrous, with 5-7sessile leaflets mos
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. anches and lowermost pendulous. It in-habits mainly well drained slopes and liill-sides in company with the Pig-nut and Shag-bark Hickories, various Oaks, the Red Cedar,Dogwood, Sassafras, etc. The wood is firm, strong and tough and isused in tlie maiuifactiire of agricultural im-plements, tool-handles, etc., and makes ex-cellent The nuts are sweet and of de-licious flavor but too small to be of commercialimportance. Leaves 8-12 or 15 in. long, glabrous, with 5-7sessile leaflets mostly 3-5 in. long, ovate-lanceolateto oblong, serrate, acuminate at apex ; winter budswith 0-8 scales, the innermost accrescent. Floioersin May; staminate aments glabrous, middel lobeof calyx equalling or somewhat longer than thelateral ones. Fruit (ripe in September) subglo-bose or globose-oblong, less than 1 in. in length,with thin husk splitting to the base ; nut subglo-bose, slightly compressed with thin shell andsweet seed. Syn. Cnnja microcarpa Xuttodorutn W., IV, 01. Hieoria (/lahr<i.
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