. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. S7/nonyme. JilgTans myristicsefSnnis Michx. Arh. 1. p. 211. Engravings. Michx. Arb., 1. t. 10.; North Anier. Sylva, t. 39.; and our Jig. 1429. Spec. Char., S(c. Leaflets, in a leaf, 9; ovate-acuminate, serrate, glabrous; the terminal one nearly sessile. Fruit ovate, roughish. Nut oval, w
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. S7/nonyme. JilgTans myristicsefSnnis Michx. Arh. 1. p. 211. Engravings. Michx. Arb., 1. t. 10.; North Anier. Sylva, t. 39.; and our Jig. 1429. Spec. Char., S(c. Leaflets, in a leaf, 9; ovate-acuminate, serrate, glabrous; the terminal one nearly sessile. Fruit ovate, roughish. Nut oval, with a small point at each end, even, brovcn with longitudinal lines of white ; in which it resembles a nutmeg, which is the seed of Myrlstica moschata ; and hence the epithet myristicEeformis. {Michx.) A large deciduous tiee. South Carolina. _- ..... (, . 1429. C. myristicffifijrmis. Very little is known or this tree, which Michaux described from a branch and a handful of nuts, which were given to him by a gardener at Charleston. S 9. C. microca'kpa Nutt. The small-fruited Carya, or Hickory. Identification. Nutt. Gen. N. Amet. PI., 2. p. 221. Engraving. Oxirjig. 1430. from a specimen in the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes, at Paris. Spec. Char., S^c. Leaflets, in a leaf, about 5 ; oblong-lanceolate, conspicuously acuminate, argutely serrulate, glabrous ; glandular beneath ; terminal one subpetiolate. Fruit subglo- bose. Husk thin. Nut partly quadrangular, small; its shell rather thin, its mucro obso- lete and truncate. Fruit much like that of C. tomen- t6sa,,and eatable; but very small, the nut not exceed- ing the size of a nutmeg. Catkins trifid, very long, gla- brous, without involucre ; scales 3-parted, their lateral segments ovate, the central one linear. Anthers pilose, mostly 4, sometimes 3, some- 5. Female flowers 2 or 3 together ; common pe- duncle bracteolate. Seg- ments of the calyx very long, and somewhat leafy. Stigma sessile, discoid, 4-lobed, some- what rh
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