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SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
JUGLANDACEA, 
is slightly angled, often somewhat compressed, narrowed at the ends, and pale or light brown, with a 
thick shell and small sweet seed.’ 
Hicoria villosa inhabits sandy plains or sterile rocky ridges and is distributed from southern 
New Jersey? to eastern Florida,’ and from the valley of the Meramec River in Missouri to eastern 
Texas It is the common Hickory on the sandy soil of southern Delaware, where it sometimes begins 
to bear fruit when only a few feet high ; and it is very abundant in the foothill region of the southern 
Appalachian Mountains and in southern Missouri and Arkansas, where on the dry flinty soil of low 
hills it is often the only Hickory-tree. 
The wood of Hicoria villosa is hard, tough, rather brittle, and dark red-brown, with thick nearly 
white sapwood.° 
1 When the seventh volume of this work was published in 1895 
this Hickory had been recognized only on the hills near Allenton, 
Missouri. The silvery scales on the young leaves and branchlets, 
which make this tree so conspicuous in early spring, are less notice- 
able in the Allenton trees than on those in some other parts of the 
country, and they were thought to be a form of the Pignut, Hicoria 
glabra (see vii. 167, t. cclv.). Now that this Hickory is known to 
be widely distributed and common in many parts of the country 
and its characters are better understood, I follow Mr. W. W. 
Ashe, who first noticed it in the east, in considering it a well 
marked species. 
2 Hicoria villosa was found by Mr. W. M. Canby near Cape May 
Court House, New Jersey, July 3, 1899, and by W. M. Canby, 
John Muir, and C.S. Sargent, near Millsborough, Delaware, in 
October, 1898. 
3 Hicoria villosa was collected by A. H. Curtiss at Oak Hill, 
Volusia County, Florida, July 31, 1900. 
4 The most southern stations in the Piedmont region where I 
have seen Hicoria villosa are Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, Ala- 
bama. ‘ 
5 Hicoria villosa was found near Houston, Texas, April 17, 1900 
by Mr. B. F. Bush. 
6 The specimen of Hicoria villosa cut near Biltmore, North Caro- 
lina, for the Jesup Collection of North American Woods in the 
American Museum of Natural History, New York, is nine inches 
in diameter inside the bark and one hundred and forty-two years 
old, with forty-eight layers of sapwood, which is an inch and seven 
eighths in thickness. 
