The sylva americana; or, A description of the forest trees indigenous to the United States, practically and botanically considered . seams, in which the husk opens atthe season of perfect maturity, dividing itself completely intoequal sections. The separation of the husk, and its thicknessdisproportioned to the size of the nut, form a character peculiarto the shellbark hickories. The nuts of this species are small,white, compressed at the sides, and marked by four distinctangles, which correspond to the divisions of the husk. The wood of the shellbark hickory possesses all the character-istic
The sylva americana; or, A description of the forest trees indigenous to the United States, practically and botanically considered . seams, in which the husk opens atthe season of perfect maturity, dividing itself completely intoequal sections. The separation of the husk, and its thicknessdisproportioned to the size of the nut, form a character peculiarto the shellbark hickories. The nuts of this species are small,white, compressed at the sides, and marked by four distinctangles, which correspond to the divisions of the husk. The wood of the shellbark hickory possesses all the character-istic properties of the hickories, being strong, elastic and has also their common defects of soon decaying and of beingeaten by worms. As this tree grows to a great height withnearly an uniform diameter, it is sometimes employed for thekeels of vessels. Its wood is found to split most easily, and tobe the most elastic; for this reason it is used for making baskets,and also for whip handles, which are esteemed for their are the uses which the shellbark hickory appears peculiarlyadapted. DICNDKULOGY. 187. MocKERNUT Hickory. Juglans tomentosa. In the parts of New Jerseywhich he on the river Hud-son, this species is knownby the name of MockernutHickory, in Pennsylvania,Maryland and Virginia, thatof Common Hickory. TheFrench of Illinois call itJVoyer dur, or hard first of these denomi-nations, which is descriptiveof the fruit, we have species is not moremultiplied in Pennsylvaniaand farther south, than theother hickories. It is notfound north of Portsmouthin New Hampshire, though one hundred miles south it is is most abundant in the forests that still remain on the coast ofthe Middle States, and in those which cover the upper parts ofthe Carolinas and of Georgia; but in the last-memioned states,it becomes more rare in approaching the sea, as the sterility ofthe soil, in general dry and sandy, is unpropitious to its
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