. Timber trees and forests of North Carolina . stronsT lateral roots. 86 TIMBER TREES OF NORTH CAROLINA. The wood is heavy, soft, strong, rather brittle, very close-grained, and compact ; the heartwood, dark brown ; the sapwoodlighter, often nearly white. The timber is of an inferior quality,and is chiefly used for fencing and fuel. It is rare in North Caro-lina, , from the difficulty in getting it out of the swamps, it islittle used. Hicoria ovata, Britton. (shag-bark hickory, shell-bark hickory,scaly-bark hickory.) A large tree uf great commercial value, with pendulous branches,and grayi
. Timber trees and forests of North Carolina . stronsT lateral roots. 86 TIMBER TREES OF NORTH CAROLINA. The wood is heavy, soft, strong, rather brittle, very close-grained, and compact ; the heartwood, dark brown ; the sapwoodlighter, often nearly white. The timber is of an inferior quality,and is chiefly used for fencing and fuel. It is rare in North Caro-lina, , from the difficulty in getting it out of the swamps, it islittle used. Hicoria ovata, Britton. (shag-bark hickory, shell-bark hickory,scaly-bark hickory.) A large tree uf great commercial value, with pendulous branches,and grayish-brown bark separating from the trunk in long reaches a height of 150 and a diameter of 4 feet. It occurs on rich hillsides and on sandy ridges from the valleyof the St. Lawrence river to Michigan and southeastern Min-nesota, southward to western Florida, central Alabama andMississippi, and westward to eastern Kansas, Indian Ter-ritory, and eastern Texas; reaching its best development west ofthe Alleghany mountains. A common LEGEND Distribution of the SHAG-BARK HICKORY (Hicoria ovata, Briit.) py| Distribution of the WATER-BITTEENUTHICKORY (Hicoria aquatica, ^rt«.) In this State, where it attains an average height of 60 to SOfeet and an average diameter of 15 to 20 , it occursthroughout but is nowhere comn^on, and least so in the coastalplain region. (Fig. 16.) * Carya alba, Nuttall. WHITE HICKORY. 87 Seed is borne frequently and in larc^e quantities, but seedlingsare not common except in tbe Piedmont plateau, and young trees-are infrequent in second-growtb woods. The leaves are large and composed of 5 to 7-pointed, rathercoarsely toothed leaflets, the lower pair small and narrow, theupper pair and terminal leaflet very large, broad and inverselyegg-shaped. The barren flowers are in slender, pendulous, greentassels, three on a common stalk. The minute fertile flowers arein groups of 2 to 4 together on the ends of the shoots. The thickhusk of the nearly
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