DENDROLOGY. 



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Mockernut Hickory. Juglans tomentosa. 



In the parts of New Jersey 

 which lie on the river Hud- 

 son, this species is known 

 by the name of Mockernut 

 Hickory, in Pennsylvania, 

 Maryland and Virginia, that 

 of Common Hickory. The 

 French of Illinois call it 

 JYoyer dur, or hard walnut. 

 The first of these denomi- 

 nations, which is descriptive 

 of the fruit, we have adopted. 

 This species is not more 

 multiplied in Pennsylvania 

 and farther south, than the 

 other hickories. It is not 

 found north of Portsmouth 

 in New Hampshire, though one hundred miles south it is common. 

 It is most abundant in the forests that still remain on the coast of 

 the Middle States, and in those which cover the upper parts of 

 the Carolinas and of Georgia ; but in the last-mentioned states, 

 it becomes more rare in approaching the sea, as the sterility of 

 the soil, in general dry and sandy, is unpropitious to its growth. 

 This is said to be the only hickory which springs in the pine- 

 barrens : the sprouts are burnt every year, and never rise more 

 than two or three feet. Like most of the walnuts, the mockernut 

 hickory flourishes in rich soils, and chiefly on the gentle acclivities 

 which surround the swamps, where it grows. 



In situations favorable to the growth of this tree, it reaches the 

 height of 60 feet, with a diameter of 18 or 20 inches. Its trunk 

 is covered with a thick, hard and rugged bark. The buds are 

 large, of a grayish-white and very hard ; in the winter, after the 

 falling of the leaf, they afford the only characteristic by which 

 the tree can be distinguished, when it exceeds eight or ten feet 



PLATE XLV. 



Fig. 1. A leaflet. Fig. 2. A nut with the husk 

 Fig. 3. A nut without the husk. 



