. 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. LXVII. JUGLANDA CE^ : CA UYA. 737 kernel is full, and, not being divided by ligneous pai'titions, is easily ex- iracted, and of an agreeable taste. The wood is coarse-grained, and, like that of the other hickories, is heavy and compact, possessing great strength and durability. The nuts
. 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. LXVII. JUGLANDA CE^ : CA UYA. 737 kernel is full, and, not being divided by ligneous pai'titions, is easily ex- iracted, and of an agreeable taste. The wood is coarse-grained, and, like that of the other hickories, is heavy and compact, possessing great strength and durability. The nuts are exported to the West Indies, and to the ports of the United States ; and Michaux considers them as more delicately flavoured than any of the nuts of Europe. ^ 2. C. AMA^A AVf. The bitter-nzii Carya, or Hickory. Identification. Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. PI., 2. p. 222 Synonymes. JAglans ainkra Michx. Arb. 1. p. 170.; Bitter-nut, White Hicliory, Swamp Hicltory, Amer. Engravings. Miclix. North Amer. Sylva, 1. t 33.; and our Jig. 1420. Spec. Char., S;c. Leaflets, in a leaf, 7—9 ; ovate-oblong, acuminate, serrate with deep teeth, glabrous; lateral ones sessile. Sets of catkins in pairs. Fruit roundish-ovate, bearing, in its upper half, 4 wing-like ridges; husk thin and fleshy, softening and decaying, and never becoming ligneous, as in the other species. Nut subglobose, broader than long, tipped with a mucro. Seed bitter. (^Michx.) A large deciduous tree. New England to Maryland, in dry woods in fertile soil, on the mountains. Introduced in 1800. Flowers greenish; April. Fruit with a greenish husk, enclosing a white nut; ripe in October. The fruit is very small, and produced in great abundance. The husk, which is thin, fleshy, and surmounted on its upper half by 4- appendages in the form of wings, never becomes ligneous, like'those of the other hickories, but softens. ^3^ 1420. C. amara. and decays. The shell is smooth, white, and thin enough to be broken with the fingers; the kernel
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