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the batter. As it turns well, it is chosen for light screws and for 

 the small boxes in which apothecaries put their opiates. When 

 perfectly dry, this wood is very hard and unyielding, hence it is 

 excellently adapted for the pulleys used in ships. The attempt 

 has been successfully made for employing the holly for hedges, 

 which are very dense and which have the recommendation of 

 preserving their foliage through the year. The berries of the 

 holly are purgative, and, taken to the number of 15 or 20, they 



excite vomiting. 



JUGLANS. 



Monoecia Poh'andria. Likn. Terebintliacese. Juss. Cathartic, emetic, 



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narcotic. 



Bitternut Hickory. Juglans amara. 



This species is generally 

 known in New Jersey by the 

 name of Bitternut Hickory; 

 in Pennsylvania it is called 

 White Hickory and some- 

 times Swamp Hickory ; far- 

 ther south it is compounded 

 with the pignut hickory ; the 

 French of Illinois, like the 

 inhabitants of New Jersey, 

 give it the name of Bitternut, 

 which, as it indicates one of 

 the peculiar properties of the 

 fruit, we have chosen to 

 retain. It is nowhere found 

 much beyond the boundaries 

 of Vermont, in latitude 45. 



It is not seen in the state of Maine, where the borders of the 



rivers offer situations, analogous to those in which it abounds, a 



few degrees farther south. 



Near New York, and in the bottoms which stretch along the 



Ohio it grows to the height of 70 or 80 feet with a circumference 



PLATE XXXVII [. 

 Fig. 1. A leaflet. Fig. 2. A nut without its husk 



