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APPENDIX. 



[Vol.. III. 



[Vol. I: p. 486.] 6a. Hicoria villosa (Sarg.) Ashe. Scurfy Hickory. 

 Woolly Pignut. (Fig. 1156a.) 



H. glabra var. villosa Sarg. Sylva, 7: 167. 1895. 

 Hicoria pallida Ashe, Notes on Hickories. In 



part. 1896. 

 //. villosa Ashe, Bull. Torr. Club, 24: 11, 530. 1897. 

 A small or medium sized tree reaching a max- 

 imum lieiRlit of about 80°, and a diameter of 2°, 

 with deeply furrowed dark gray bark. Buds 

 of 6-.S imbricated scales, the outer usually thickly 

 (lolled -<villi resinous globules, the inner some- 

 what enlarging in leafing; terminal bud ovate, 

 _!4' long, liileriil buds mostly shorl-stipcd ; stam- 

 inatc aments pubescent, and gland and scurf 

 rr)r('/(Y/, peduucled in 3's at baseof shoots of the 

 season; twigs slender, ' &' thick or less, usually 

 glabrous, bright purplc-brozvn ; petiole pubes- 

 cent; leaflets 5-9, at first thickly covered beneath 

 ivith silvery peltate ghnidsj mixed -vith resinous 

 globules, generally pubescent; fruit about l' 

 long, obovoid or subglobose, the husk dotted 

 ',vith resinous globules, \i' thick and partly 

 splitting; nut brown, thick-shelled, angled; seed 

 small, but sweet. 



Poor sandy or rocky soils, Delaware to Georgia 

 (accordingto Ashe), west to Missouri. Wood hard, 

 strong, dark brown; weight per cubic foot 50 lbs. 

 Hicoria villosa pallida Ashe. 

 Hicoria pallida Ashe, Notes on Hickories. In part. 1896. 



Less pubescent; fruit ovoid, flattened laterally ; husk thin, splitting to the base ; nut light 

 brown, 7iot angled. Virginia to Georgia. 



[Vol. i: p. 4S7] after fficoria glabra add Hicoria glabra hirsiita Ashe, Notes on Hickories. 1896. 

 Similar to type, but leaves larger, pubescent benealh. thinner, generally destitute of resinous 

 globules on the lower surface; fruit larger. Virginia to Georgia, along and near the mountains. 



[Vol. I: p. 486.] 6b. Hicoria borealis Ashe. Northern Hickory. 



(Fig. 1156b.) 



Hicoria borealis Ashe, Notes on Hickories. 1896. 



A small tree, with rough furrowed bark when 

 young, becoming shaggy in long narrow strips with 

 age. Bud-scales S-10, imbricated, the inner bright- 

 colored and sericeous, enlarging in leafing and 

 tardily deciduous; terminal bud ovate-lanceolate, 

 '/i' long; twigs very slender, '/%' thick, glabrous, 

 bright bro-vnish red ; staminate aments in 3's at 

 base of shoots of season; middle lobe of staminate 

 calyx much prolonged; young foliage blackening 

 in drying, pubescent zvhcn young, becoming smooth, 

 ciliatc, -vith feio resinous globules on lover surface ; 

 leaflets 5, occasionally 3, lauceolatc, the upper ;'4f'- 

 iX' wide, 5'A'-b' long; lower pair often smaller; 

 fruit ovoid, much flattened, ;'+' Or more long; husk 

 very thin, rugose, coriaceous, usually not splitting; 

 nut while, somewhat angled; shell thin and elastic ; 

 seed large, sweet and edible. 



A small tree of dry uplands, growing with oaks and 

 Hicoria microcarpa. Southern and eastern Michigan. 

 east to Belle Isle, Detroit river. Probably also in 

 southern Ontario. 



[Vol. I: p. 537.] 2a. NESTRONIA Raf. New Flora, 3: 12. 1836. 

 [D.\RBY.\ A. Gray, Am. Jouru. Sci. (II) i: 3SS. 1S46.] 

 A low glabrous dioecious shrub, with opposite short-petioled, oblong to ovate entire leaves. 

 Staminate flowers small, in axillary peduncled umbels; calyx top-shaped, 4-5-cleft, the lobes 

 spreading, each with a tuft of wool; stamens as many as the calyx-segments and opposite 

 them; disk crenate. Pistillate flowers solitary in the axils, short -peduncled; calyx narrowly 

 top-shaped, 4-lobed; stamens 4; style short, 4-lobed; ovary adnate to the calyx. Fruit au 

 oval i-seeded drupe. [From the Greek name of Daphtie.'] 

 A monotypic genus of the southeastern United States. 



