157-2 
History and Habitat.—The shag-bark hickory is indigenous to the Atlantic 
States of North America from Maine to the Carolinas, growing in rich woods 
and along streams. It blossoms in May and ripens its fruit in October, 
The bark of the hickory affords with copperas an olive, and with alum a green, 
dye for woolens; the ash yields a very fine lye, and the “meats” an excellent oil 
for burning. The wood is valuable for the handles of most light and heavy im- 
plements, for barrel-hoops, sail-rings, hand-spikes, and pins, but is useless for any 
purpose in which it would be subjected to alternate wettings and dryings. In 
medicine I can find no account of its use prior to the provings, which so far are 
slight. Carya is not mentioned in the U. S, Ph. nor the Eclectic Materia Medica. 
PART USED AND PREPARATION.—The ripe cotyledons are finely pow- 
dered, covered with five parts by weight of alcohol, and kept for eight days in a 
tightly-stoppered bottle, in a dark, cool place. 
The tincture obtained by decanting and filtering, has a light-canary color by 
transmitted light, an odor and taste of the nut, and a neutral reaction. 
CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS.—I am unable to find record of any analysis 
of this plant or its seed. On evaporating the tincture under the addition of water 
until the alcohol entirely passed off, a light and a heavy oil separated, both liquid 
at ordinary temperatures, The heavy oil separated in greater quantity, and solidi- 
fied at 7° (44.6° F.); both retained the peculiar odor and taste of the nut. No 
specific principle was yielded by farther analysis. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE 157. 
1. End of flowering branch ; Binghamton, N. Y., vane 3d, 1884. 
2. Female oii (enlarged). 
. Male flower (enlarged). 
- Nut. 
. Longitudinal section of the nut. 
. Horizontal section of the nut. 
. Section of the ovary (enlarged). 
. Trunk of tree (diminished). 
Pollen (3 views x 200). 
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