. 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. Butternut 217. â Butternut. attains a maximum height of 30 meters, with a trunk diameter of i m. It is also known as White wahiut and Wahiut. The trunk is usually divided at or below the middle into outspreading branches, forming a broad round-topped tree. The bark is 18 to 25 mm. thick, deeply furrowed into flat ridges, which are divided into close plates of a brown color; that of younger stems is smooth and grayish. The
. 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. Butternut 217. â Butternut. attains a maximum height of 30 meters, with a trunk diameter of i m. It is also known as White wahiut and Wahiut. The trunk is usually divided at or below the middle into outspreading branches, forming a broad round-topped tree. The bark is 18 to 25 mm. thick, deeply furrowed into flat ridges, which are divided into close plates of a brown color; that of younger stems is smooth and grayish. The twigs Are stout, pithy, rusty brown- hairy, gradually becoming smooth, green or yel- lowish brown, somewhat shining and marked by large leaf-scars. The terminal winter buds are 12 to 18 mm. long, obliquely flattened above, blunt, and covered by hairy scales; the lateral buds are much smaller. The leaves are 3 to 6 dm. long, including the hairy leaf-stalk. There are II to 17 leaflets; these are short-stalked, lan- ceolate to oblong, 6 to 12 cm. long, the central pairs somewhat the longest, sharp or taper- pointed, unequally rounded at the base, sharply toothed on the margin; the terminal leaflet is ^'°" ^''^' often long-stalked; they are thin, yellowish green, and wrinkled, viscid-hairy at first but becoming quite smooth above, paler and softly hairy, with prominent lighter colored venation beneath. The flowers appear when the leaves are partly grown, the staminate in cylindric catkins 6 to 15 cm. long, their bracts brownish hairy on the outer surface; perianth 6 mm. long, mostly 5-lobed; stamens 8 to 12, their anthers dark brown. The pistillate flowers are several together in spicate clusters, narrowed beneath the calyx, about 8 mm. long; stigmas 12 mm. long, slender, bright red. The fruits ripen several together; they are oblong-cylindric, 8 to 12 cm. long, 2-or 4-ridged, pointed at the apex, rounded at the base, very viscid, with rusty brown hairs. The husk is thin
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