. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Juglans Pecan Marsh. Arb. Am. 69. 1785. Carya olivaeformis Nutt. Gen. 2: 221. 1818. Hicoria Pecan Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 15: 282. 1888. A large slender tree, with somewhat roughened bark, maximum height of 170° and trunk diameter 6°. Young twigs and leaves pubescent; mature foliage nearly gla- brous; bud-scales few, small, valvate; leaflets 11-15, fal- cate,
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Juglans Pecan Marsh. Arb. Am. 69. 1785. Carya olivaeformis Nutt. Gen. 2: 221. 1818. Hicoria Pecan Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 15: 282. 1888. A large slender tree, with somewhat roughened bark, maximum height of 170° and trunk diameter 6°. Young twigs and leaves pubescent; mature foliage nearly gla- brous; bud-scales few, small, valvate; leaflets 11-15, fal- cate, oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, short-stalked, inequilateral, acuminate, 4'-7'long; staminate aments sessile or nearly so in the axils of leaf-scars near the end of twigs of the preceding season or sometimes, on the young shoots, S'-6' long; bract of the staminate calyx linear, much longer than the broadly oblong lateral lobes; fruit oblong-cylindric, i¥-2i' long; husk thin, 4-valved; nut smooth, oblong, thin- shelled, pointed, 2-celled at base, dissepiments thin, very astringent; seed delicious. In moist soil, especially along streams, Indiana to Iowa and Kansas, south to Alabama and' Texas. Wood hard, brittle, light brown; weight 45 lbs. April-May. Fruit ripe 2. Hicoria cordiformis (Wang.) Britton. Bitter-nut. Swamp Hickory. Fig. 1424. Juglans alba minima Marsh. Arb. Am. 68. 1785. Juglans cordiformis Wang. Nordam. Holz. 25, pi. 10, f. 25. 17S7. Carya amara Nutt. Gen. 2:222. 1818. Hicoria minima Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 15: 284. 1888. Hicoria cordiformis Britton, N. A. Trees 228. 1908. A slender tree, sometimes ioo° high, with trunk 30 in diameter, the bark close and rough. Bud-scales 6-8, small, valvate, caducous, young foliage puberulent, becoming nearly glabrous; leaflets 7-9, sessile, long- acuminate, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 3'-6' long, i'-il' wide, the lateral ones falcate; staminate aments slightly pubescent, peduncled in 3's at the bases
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