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HICORIA VILLOSA. 
Hickory. 
Lrartets 5 to 9, lanceolate or oblanceolate, pubescent and coated on the lower 
surface while young with silvery peltate scales. Fruit subglobose or pyriform; husks 
thin; nut small, angled, thick-shelled. 
Hicoria villosa, Ashe, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, xxiv. 481 167, t. 355 (1895). — Ashe, Hickories of the United 
(1897) ; Bull. No. 6, North Carolina Geolog. Surv. States. ' 
21. — Britton & Brown, Jil. Fi. iii. 512, £ 1156a.— Hicoria pallida, Ashe, Hickories of the United States 
Mohr, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. vi. 462 (Plant Life of (1896); Garden and Forest, x. 304, f. 39. — Britton, 
Alabama). — Britton, Man. 325. Man. 325. 
Hicoria glabra, var. villosa, Sargent, Silva N. Am. vii. Hicoria villosa pallida, Britton & Brown, JU. FI. iii. 512 
(1898). 
A tree, usually not more than eighteen or twenty but sometimes forty or fifty feet in height, with 
a short trunk from twelve to eighteen inches in diameter, and small-branches, the upper ascending 
and forming a narrow oblong head and the lower pendulous. The bark of the trunk is from one half 
to three quarters of an inch in thickness, light gray or grayish brown, and irregularly divided by deep 
fissures into broad connected ridges covered with closely appressed scales. The branchlets are slender, 
coated when they first appear with pale tomentum or pubescence mixed with silvery peltate scales which 
also occur on the under surface of the leaves and on the staminate inflorescence ; during their first winter 
they are glabrous or puberulous, bright purplish brown, and marked by occasional oblong light gray 
lenticels, and rather dark-colored the following year. The terminal buds are sessile or stalked, ovate, 
acute, and from one eighth to nearly one quarter of an inch long, with imbricated scales puberulous 
and more or less covered on the outer surface with yellow glands. The leaves vary from six to ten 
inches in length, and are composed of slender petioles which are pubescent in the spring and fur- 
nished with conspicuous tufts of pale or brownish hairs, and are glabrous or puberulous in the autumn, 
and of from five to nine but usually seven leaflets; these increase in size from the lowest to the upper 
pair, and are sessile or very short-stalked, lanceolate or oblanceolate, acuminate, gradually or abruptly 
narrowed, nearly symmetrical or unsymmetrical at the entire base, and coarsely serrate above, with remote 
glandular incurved teeth ; when they unfold they are covered with deciduous resinous globules, and on 
the lower surface with soft hairs and with the peltate silvery scales which are characteristic of this tree 
in early spring, and which soon become indistinct and often disappear by the time the leaves are fully 
grown ; at maturity they are dark green and glabrous above, pale or bright yellow below, the largest 
from four to five inches long and from an inch to an inch and a half wide and more than twice as large 
as those of the lowest pair, with stout midribs and slender primary veins pubescent or tomentose below. 
The staminate flowers are produced in ternate hairy catkins from five to seven inches in length, with 
large acute scarious bracts, and are villose on the outer surface, with hairy anthers and elongated linear 
acuminate -villose bracts. The pistillate flowers are oblong, prominently four-ribbed, and coated with 
scurfy yellow pubescence, with a lanceolate acuminate bract much longer than the ovate acute bractlets 
and the calyx-lobe. The fruit varies from subglobose to pyriform and from three quarters of an inch 
to an inch and three quarters in length, and is four-winged and more or less thickly covered with 
yellow scurfy scales, with a thin husk which splits to below the middle or nearly to the base. The nut 
