. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. HICORIA 747 and laciniosn, for which see Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 7, pi. and Gug. 2:226. See Pecan. myristicaeffirmis, Britt. (Carya myristicwfdrmis, Nutt.). NuTMEG-HiCKOKY. Tree, to 100 ft. with dark brown bark, br
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. HICORIA 747 and laciniosn, for which see Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 7, pi. and Gug. 2:226. See Pecan. myristicaeffirmis, Britt. (Carya myristicwfdrmis, Nutt.). NuTMEG-HiCKOKY. Tree, to 100 ft. with dark brown bark, broken into scales: Ifts. 5-11. short-stalked or almost sessile, ovate-lanceolate, the uppermost much larger and oborate, serrate, scurfy-pu- bescent beneath when young and with brown scales above, at length dark green above, silvery and lustrous beneath, 3-5 in. long: staminate catkins peduneled: fr. generally solitary, shortovoid orobovate, about IK in. long; nut ovoid, reddish brown marked with irregular spots and stripes, thick-shelled, 4-celled below; kernel sweet. From S. Car. to Ark. and Mex. 7:342^ A very decorative species on account of its handsome foliage, but not hardy North. BB. Ifut usually as broad as long, compressed with irregularly angled or reticulate surface, thitt- sheiled, 4-celled below : kernel bitter. aqudtica, Britt. (Carya aqudtica, Nutt.). Watek- Hickory. Bitter Pecan. Usually small tree, rarely to 100 ft., with light brown bark separating into long, thin plates. Ifts 7-13, sessile or short-stalked, lanceolate, long-acuminate, finely serrate, yellowish tomentose when young, glabrous at length, fr. 3^, ovoid to broadly obo- vate, 1-lHin. long; husk thin, splitting to the base; nut obovate, much compressed, irregularly angled and ridged, dull reddish brown; kernel very bitter. From Va. to 111., south to Pla. and Tex. 7:344-45. 12, 7-8. minima, Britt. {Carya anidra, Nutt.). Bitter Nut. SwAsip-HiCKORY. Tree, to 100 ft.: bar
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