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I shall now attempt to trace in outline the history of the in- 

 troduction into botanical literature of the names which the species 

 we are now able to differentiate must bear. In this I have freely 

 availed myself of the cited synonymy of the genus, and especially 

 of the exhaustive display of it given by Professor C. S. Sargent, 

 in the Forestry Report of the Tenth Census, comparing the refer- 

 ences I have had occasion to ufc, but without noticing a single 

 discrepancy. 



Linnaeus carried Miller's process of eliminating Plukenet's 

 species still farther, for he records but a single species, viz : J^ig- 

 lans alba (Species Plantarum, Ed. I., p. 997. (i/SS)- While 

 his description and synonyms indicated that he had several spe- 

 cies confounded, his specimens are of the Woolly Hickory or 

 Moker Nut, as is stated by all recent authorities, and which I 

 can now confirm from a recent inspection of them ; they consist 

 of leaves and staminate catkins. It is quite remarkable that he 

 was unable to separate more species, when we recall the large 

 number of oaks, maples, ashes and other North American forest 

 trees that he described. On one of these old herbarium sheets I 

 was much interested to note the following memorandum written 

 in pencil: " Hickery Nut, forte genus novum, capsula 4-valvis." 

 J. E. S. I cannot find that Sir J. E. Smith ever published any- 

 thing on the subject. This name was in common use for the 

 Moker Nut up to the appearance of the last edition of Bigelow's 

 Florula Bostoniensis (1840). 



The seventh edition of Miller's Gardener's Dictionary, pub- 

 lished in 1759, brought in two additional species, Jtiglans gla- 

 bra, the Pig Nut, and Jiiglans ovata, the Eastern Shagbark. 



Humphrey Marshall's " Arbustum Americanum " appeared 

 in 1785. He applied trinomial appellations to most of the spe- 

 cies, regarding all the true hickories as varieties oi Juglans alba ; 

 indeed he defines no t}'pe of it. His Juglans alba minima has 

 been referred to the Bitternut Hickory, and no doubt correctly 

 so, although he calls it the Pig Nut, a name even yet applied to 

 it in certain parts of the country. He names also Juglans Pecan, 

 the Pecan Nut; the other forms described by him had already 

 received names. 



In 1796 the Western Shell-bark Hickory was described as 



