. 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. 230 The Hickories The pistillate flowers are densely brown-haiiy. The fruit is subglobose or obovoid to pear-shaped, rusty brown and slightly winged, the husk rather thin, splitting rather tardily into 4 valves; nut white or nearly so, laterally flattened, 4-celled at the base, its shell moderately thin; seed sweet and edible. The species has been confused with Hicoria villosa, which it much resembles. 7. MOCKER NUT —Hico
. 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. 230 The Hickories The pistillate flowers are densely brown-haiiy. The fruit is subglobose or obovoid to pear-shaped, rusty brown and slightly winged, the husk rather thin, splitting rather tardily into 4 valves; nut white or nearly so, laterally flattened, 4-celled at the base, its shell moderately thin; seed sweet and edible. The species has been confused with Hicoria villosa, which it much resembles. 7. MOCKER NUT —Hicoria alba (Linnaeus) Britten Juglans alba Linnaeus. Juglans tomentosa Poiret. Carya tomentosa Nuttall This handsome forest tree occurs in rich woods from Massachusetts and Ontario to Nebraska, southward to Florida and Texas, having its greatest development in numbers and size in the central states. Its maximum height is about 30 meters, with a trunk diameter of m. It is also known as Mocker nut hickory. Butternut, White heart hickory. Black hickory nut. Big bud. Red hickory. White hickory. Big hickory nut, Hognut, Common hickory, and Bull nut. The trunk is tall and straight in the forest, but in the open it is often widely branched or forked. The branches are stiff, upright, spreading, or often drooping, forming, when not crowded, a nearly cylindric tree. The bark is 12 to 20 mm. thick, irregularly furrowed into broad, close, flat, more or less scaly ridges of a dark or hght gray color. The twigs are stout, somewhat an- gular and thickly covered with pale hairs, be- coming pund, nearly smooth, red-brown and finally dark gray, and bearing large lenticels and leaf scars. The terminal bud is ovoid, 12 to 25 mm. long, covered with imbricated scales, which are thick and coated with long whitish hairs; the inner scales grow to about cm. long, are silky hairy, often red on the inner surface and fall off after the flowers appear. The leaves are very fragrant, 2 to 3 dm. long,
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