172 SYLVA AMERICANA. 



Pennsylvania where this tree is multiplied, an oil is extracted 

 from the nuts, which is used for the lamp and for other inferior 

 purposes. 



Water Bitternut Hickory. Juglans aquatica. 



This species of hickory is confined to the Southern States, 

 nnd is confounded with the pignut hickory, though different from 

 it in many respects. It always grows in swamps, and in the 

 ditches which surround the rice fields. 



It grows to the height of 40 or 50 feet, and its general 

 appearance resemhles the other hickories. Its leaves are eight 

 or nine inches long, and of a beautiful green. They are composed 

 of four or five pair of sessile leaflets surmounted by a petiolated 

 odd one. The leaflets are serrate, four or five inches long, 

 eight or nine lines broad, and very similar to the leaves of the 

 peach tree. The husk is thin, and the nuts are small, angular, 

 a little depressed at the sides, somewhat rough, of a reddish 

 color and very tender. The kernel is formed in folds like that 

 of the preceding species : as may be supposed it is not eatable. 



The wood of this tree, though partaking of the common 

 properties of the hickories, is in every respect inferior to the 

 others, from the nature of the grounds on which it grows. The 

 southern parts of the United States possess many sorts of 

 timber more useful in building, to w T hich purpose this, like the 

 other hickories, is poorly adapted. 



