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CHAP. CII. JUGLANDA CEA. CA RYA. 1445 
at the sutures. Nut with 4—6 angles in its transverse outline, having 
a short capitate beak at the tip. Shell somewhat channeled. (Michz. 
N.A.S., Pursh Fl. AS.) A vative of North America, in forests where the 
soil is fertile, from New England to Virginia, and on the Alleghany Moun- 
tains. (Pursh.) Introduced in ? 1766. 
Variety. 
¥ ©, t. 2 maxima Nutt., Sweet’s Hort. Brit., ed. 1830.— Leaflets 7 in a 
leaf, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate ; beneath, softly pubescen ¢, 
and of a paler colour; terminal leaflet subpetiolate. Fruit partly 
globose, of nearly twice the size ordinary in the species ; as large as 
an apple. Husk exceedingly thick. Nut quadrangular, very large, 
having a thick shell, and a mucro that is prominent, quadrangular, 
and truncate at the tip. The kind grows a few miles from Phila- 
delphia. (Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. P1., ii. p. 221.) 
Description, §c. The mocker-nut hickory, Michaux informs us, is a tree 
about 60 ft. in height, and 18 in. or 20in. in diameter. The buds of this 
species are large, short, of a greyish white, and very hard. In winter, they 
afford a character- 
istic by which the 1267 
tree is easily dis- 
tinguishable from 
all others of the 
same genus. In 
the beginning of 
May, the buds 
swell, the external 
scales fall off, and 
theinner ones burst 
soon after, and dis- 
play the young 
leaf. The leaves 
grow so rapidly, 
that Michaux has 
seen them gain 20 
inches in 18 days. _ 
“They are com- 
posed of 4 pairs of 
sessile leaflets, ter 
minated by an odd 
one. The leaflets 
are large,ovate-acu- 
minate, serrate, pretty thick, and hairy underneath, as is the common petiole to 
which they are attached. With the first frosts, the leaves change to a beautiful 
yellow, and fall off soon after. The barren flowers appear on pendulous, downy, 
axillary catkins, 6 in. or 8 in. long; the fertile flowers, which are not very con- 
spicuous, are of a pale rose colour, and are situated at the extremity of the 
young shoots.” (NV. Amer. Syl., i. p. 178.) The fruit is ripe in November, 
and varies very much in size and shape. The shell is very thick, and ex- 
tremely hard ; and the kernel, which is sweet, though small, is so difficult to 
extract, because of the strong partitions which divide it, as to have givea rise to 
the name of mocker nut. The trunk of the old trees is covered with a thick, 
hard, rugged bark ; and the wood is remarkable for its strength, tenacity, and. 
durability. The heart-wood of the young trees is white; and hence the name 
of white-heart hickory, by which this tree is known in some parts of America. 
This tree is found principally in the forests which remain on the coast of the 
middle states; but it is rarely found in the Carolinas or Georgia, or north of 
Portsmouth, in New Hampshire. It is the only hickory which springs in the 
pine barrens. In these extensive tracts, the mocker-nut hickory and the 
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