. 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. 234 The Hickories 18 mm. long; the scales are imbricated, and hairy, the outer broadly ovate, sharp-pointed, dark brown and hairy; the iimer scales grow as the bud opens, be- coming conspicuously enlarged, yellowish green or reddish, reflexed, 7 cm. long, usually persisting until the staminate catkins fall. The leaves are 2 to dm. long, the leaf-stalk stout, slightly grooved, much thickened at the base, smooth or hair
. 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. 234 The Hickories 18 mm. long; the scales are imbricated, and hairy, the outer broadly ovate, sharp-pointed, dark brown and hairy; the iimer scales grow as the bud opens, be- coming conspicuously enlarged, yellowish green or reddish, reflexed, 7 cm. long, usually persisting until the staminate catkins fall. The leaves are 2 to dm. long, the leaf-stalk stout, slightly grooved, much thickened at the base, smooth or hairy. The 5 or rarely 7 leaflets are obovate to oblong-lanceolate, 10 to 15 cm. long, the lowest pair shorter and broader at the base, usually straight, equal at the tapering or rounded base, taper-pointed, margined with small, thick-tipped teeth; the terminal leaflet is broadest above the middle, tapering to a slightly winged slender stalk 4 to 10 mm. long; they are thin and firm, yellowish green and smooth above, smooth and shining or slightly hairy beneath. The staminate catkins are in stalked clusters of 3, slender, light green, glan- dular and hairy, i to dm. long, the flowers opening when the leaves are nearly completely unfolded, their linear-lanceolate bracts elongated and much longer than the lobes of the perianth, which are ovate; stamens 4, nearly sessile, their anthers slightly spreading, lobed at the apex, yel- low and somewhat hairy; the pistillate flowers are in spikes of 2 to 5, rusty-woolly; stigma pale green. The fruit ripens in September and Oc- tober, usually in pairs or solitary, subglobose, 3 to 5 cm. long, depressed, the top bearing the withered remnants of the stigma, dark red- FiG. 191. — Shellbark. (jjg]^ brown, smooth or slightly hairy; husk varia- ble, often 8 mm. thick, 4-valved, splitting to the base; nut oblong, subglobose or obovoid, very variable in size and shape, somewhat flattened, pointed and slightly wrinkled and angular, white, the shel
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