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EMPETRACEJE. (CROWBERRY FAMILY.) 
nearly whorled narrowly linear leaves. (Name Koprjpa , a broom , 
from the bushy aspect.) 
1. C* Conradii, Torrey. Diffusely branched, nearly smooth; 
drupe very small, dry and juiceless when ripe. (Empetrum, Torr. 
Tuckerm&nia, Klotzsch. Oakesia, Tuck.) — Sandy pine barrens and 
dry rocky places, New Jersey, Long Island; Plymouth, Massachu¬ 
setts; and Bath, Maine. April. — Shrub 6'-9' high: the sterile 
plant handsome in flower, on account of the tufted purple filaments 
and brown-purple anthers. (Gray, Chlor. Bor.-Am. t. 1.) 
Order 100. JTJGLANDACEiE. (Walnut Family.) 
Trees , with alternate pinnate leaves , without stipules; the 
sterile flowers in catkins ( aments) with an irregular calyx; 
the fertile solitary or in small clusters , with a regular 3 - 
Globed caly xadherent to the incompletely 2 — 4 -celled but 
only 1 -ovuled ovary . Fruit a kind of dry drupe , with a 
bony endocarp ( nut-shell ), containing a large Globed ortho * 
tropous seed. Albumen none. Cotyledons fleshy and oily, 
sinuous, 2-lobed : radicle short, superior. Petals sometimes 
present in the fertile flowers. 
1. JIJGEANS, L. Walnut. 
Sterile flowers in long and simple lateral catkins ; the calyx ad¬ 
herent to the entire bracts or scales, unequally 3 — 6-cleft. Sta¬ 
mens 8 - 40: filaments very short. Fertile flowers solitary or 
several together on a peduncle at the end of the branches, with a 
4-toothed calyx, bearing 4 small petals at the sinuses. Styles 2, 
very short: stigmas 2, somewhat club-shaped and fringed. Fruit 
with a fibrous-fleshy indehiscent epicarp, and a rough irregularly 
furrowed endocarp or nut-shell. — Trees with strong-scented or 
resinous-aromatic bark, &c., naked buds, and odd-pinnate leaves 
of many serrate leaflets. Pith in plates. (Name contracted from 
Jovis glans , the nut of Jupiter.) 
1- ctnerea, L. (Butternut.) Leaflets oblong-lanceolate, 
pointed, rounded at the base, downy, especially underneath, the peti¬ 
oles and branchlets downy with clammy hairs ; fruit oblong , dummy , 
the nut pointed, deeply sculptured and rough with ragged ridges. 
Rich woods, common. May: fruit ripe in Sept. — Tree 30°-o<r 
high, with gray bark, and widely spreading branches; wood lighter 
colored than in the next. 
