CHAP. CII. JUGLANDA ‘CER. PTEROCA'RYA. 1451 
found in company with the pig-nut; “but that the pig-nut does not always 
accompany the mocker-nut, which is satisfied with a much less substantial 
soil.” The wood of this tree is stronger and better than that of any other kind 
of hickory ; and, on account of its extreme tenacity, it is preferred to any of the 
other American woods for axletrees and axe-handles. For this reason, Michaux 
recommends its introduction into the forests of Europe, where its success, he 
says, would be certain. There are plants in the Hackney Arboretum. 
¥ 8. C. myrisTiczFo’RMIs Nutt, The Nutmeg-like-fruited Carya, or Nutmeg 
Hickory. 
Identification. Nutt. Gen. Amer. Pl., 2. p. 222. 
Synonyme. Jiglans myristiceférmis Michr. Arb., 1. p. 211., North Amer. Sylva, 1. p. 198., Pursh 
Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 638. 
Engravings. ichx. Arb., 1. t. 10.; North Amer. Sylva, t. 39. ; and our fig. 1275. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaflets, in a leaf, 9; ovate-acuminate, serrate, glabrous ; the terminal one nearly 
sessile. Fruit ovate, roughish. Nut oval, with a small point at each end, even. brown with 
longitudinal lines of white; in which it resembles a nutmeg, which is the seed of Myristica mos- 
chata ; and hence the epithet myristiceférmis. A 
native of South Carolina. (Michr. N. A. S., Pursh 
Fl. Am. Sept.) 
Description, &c. Very little is known of this tree. 
Michaux described only from a branch and a handful 
of nuts, which were given to him by a gardener at 
Charleston. The leaves consist of four or six small 
leaflets, and an odd one; and the nuts, which are very 
small, smooth, and brown, streaked with white, |} 
strongly resemble a nutmeg; whencethe name. The | 
shell is so thick, that it constitutes two thirds of the 
nut, which is, in consequence, very hard, and has a 
minute kernel, which is inferior even to that of the 
pig-nut. Michaux had no means of ascertaining the 
value of the wood; but he found the shoots of the 
current year extremely tough and flexible. (Sy/., i. p. 
199.) This sort is not yet introduced. 
¥ 9. C.microca’rPA Nutt. The small-fruited Carya, or Hickory. 
Identification. Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. Pl., 2. p. 221. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaflets, in a leaf, about 5; oblong-lanceolate, conspicuously acuminate, argutely 
serrulate, glabrous ; glandular beneath; terminal one subpetiolate. Fruit subglobose. Husk thin. 
Nut partly quadrangular, small ; its shel] rather thin, its mucro obsolete and truncate. Indigenous 
to the banks of the Schuylkill, in the vicinity of Philadelphia. (Nuttall.) A large tree, with even 
bark. Fruit much like that of C. tomentosa, and eatable ; but very small, the nut not exceeding 
the size ofa nutmeg. Catkins trifid, very long, glabrous, without involucre; scales 3-parted, their 
lateral Lo setae ovate, the central one linear. Anthers pilose, mostly 4, sometimes 3, sometimes 
5. Female flowers 2 or 3 together; ‘common peduncle bracteolate. Segments of the calyx 
very long, and somewhat leafy. Stigma sessile, discoid, 4-lobed, somewhat rhomboidal. (Nuttail.) 
Not yet introduced. 
¥ 10. C.1nTEGRIFO‘LIA Spreng. The entire-leaf(let)ed Carya, or Hickory. 
Identification. Spreng. Syst. Veg., 3. p. 849.; Sweet Hort. Brit,, ed. 1830. 
Synonyme, Hicorius integrifdlius Rafinesque. 
Spec. Char., &c. Branchlets and petioles tomentose. Leaflets, in a leaf, about 11; lanceolate, 
acuminate, entire. Stamens 6—S in a flower. Nut with 4 angles in its transverse outline. 
(Sprengel.) Not yet introduced. 
App. i. - Other Kinds of Carya. 
C. ambigua; Jigians ambigua Michr. N. A. Syl.,190.; is a kind which Michaux found in the 
gardens of the Petit Trianon, where it had heen raised from American seeds, Its bark exfoliates in 
strips ; its leaves resemble those of C. sulcata; and its fruit that of C. alba, but is smaller. From this 
description, it appears to belong:to the shell-bark hickories. 
C. pubéscens Lk, En,. Sweet’s Hort. Brit., ed. 1833, is a kind of which we know nothing. 
C. rigida, J. rigida Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. The plants bearing this namein the Hackney Arboretum 
appear to be varieties of C. alba. 
Genus III. 
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PTEROCA‘RYA Kunth. Tue Prerocarya. Lin, Syst. Monce*cia 
. ? Polyandria. 
Aden ion. Kunth in Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 2. p. 346.; Lindley Nat. Syst. of Bot., 
p. 180. 
Synonyme. Jiglans sp. Lin. 
