JUGLANDACE^, 



SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



137 



HICORIA PECAN. 



Pecan, 



Leaflets 9 to 11, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, more or less falcate. Fruit 



four-winged nearly to the base ; nut ovate-oblong, cylindrical, thin-shelled ; kernel 

 sweet. 



Hicoria Pecan, Britton, Bull Torrey Bot. Chib, xv. 282 Carya olivseformis, NuttaU, Gen. ii. 221 (1818). 



— Spach, Hist. Veg. ii. 173. 



(1888). — Dippel, Handb. Laiibholzk. ii. 340, f. 156. — 

 Koehne, Deutsche Dendr, 73, f. 23 H. H'. H". — Coulter, 

 Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. ii. 410 (Man. PL W. Texas). 



Hort 



Juglans Pecan, Marshall, Arbust. Am. 69 (1785). 



Wal- 



Sprengel, Syst. iii. 849. — S 



Scheele, Roemer Texas^ 447. 



223, vi* t. 45, f . 2. — Torrey, Bot. Mex. Bound. Sicrv. 



205. — Chapman, FL 418. — C de Candolle, A7in. Sci 



ter, FL Car. 236. — Borkhausen, Handb. Forstbot. 



Nat. s^r. 4, xviii. 36, t. 1, f. 3, t. 6, f . 59 ; Prodr. xvi. pt. 



759. 



Muehlenberg & Willdenow, Neue Schrift. Gesell. 



11. 



144. 



Ridg-way, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 77. 



nat. Ft. Berlin^ iii. 392. 

 ed. 2, vi. 236. 



Mont 



Hemsley, Bot. BioL Am. Cent. iii. 163. — Sargent, Forest 



Havard, 



Trees N. 



Census U. S. ix. 132- 



Juglans lUinoinensis, Wangenheim, Nordam. Holz. 54, t. 



18, f. 43 (excl. fruit) (1787). 

 Juglans angustifolia, Aiton, Hort. Kew. iii. 361 (1789). — 



Stokes, Bot. Mat. Med. iv. 400. 

 Juglans alba, e pacana, Castiglioni, Viag. negli Stati Uniti, 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. viii. 506. — Watson & Coulter, 

 Gray's Man. ed. 6, 468. — Mayr, Wald. Nordam. 161, 



t. 4. 

 Carya angustifolia, Sweet, Hort. Brit. 97 (1827). 



tall, Sylva^ i. 41- 



Nut- 



ii. 262 (1790). 

 Juglans cylindrica, Poiret, Lam. Diet. iv. 505 (1797) ; IlL 

 iii. 365, t. 781, £. 5. — Nouveaic Duhamely iv. 178. 



Juglans olivsef ormis, Michaux, FL Bor.-Am. ii- 192 ? Carya Texana, C. de Candolle, Ann. ScL Nat. s^r. 4, 



Carya tetraptera, Liebmann, Vidensk. Medd. fra nat. For, 



Kjbbenh. 1850, 80. 

 Hicoria Texana, Le Conte, Proc. PML Acad. 1853, 402, 



(1803). 



Willdenow, Spec. iv. 457 ; Enum. 979 ; Berl 



xviii. 33 (1862) ; Prodr. xvi. pt. ii. 145. 



Baumz. ed. 2, 194. — Persoon, Syn. ii. 566. — Desfon- Carya Illinoensis, Koch, Dendr. i. 593 (1869). — Lauche, 



taines. Hist. Arb. ii. 348. — Michaux f . Hist. Arb. A7n 



Deutsche Dendr. 307, f. 124. 



i. 173, t. 3. — Aiton, Hort. Kew. ed. 2, v. 296. — Pursh, Hicorius Pecan 



Garden and Forest, ii. 460 



FL Am. Sept. ii. 636. — Hayne, Dendr. FL 163. 



(1889). 



A tree, one hundred to one hundred and seventy feet in height, with a tall massive trunk occasion- 

 ally six feet in diameter above its enlarged and buttressed base, and stout shghtly spreading branches 

 which form in the forest a narrow symmetrical and inversely pyramidal, or, where they find room to 

 spread, a broad round-topped head. The bark of the trunk is an inch to an inch and a half in 

 thickness, light brown tinged with red, and deeply and irregularly divided into narrow forked ridges 

 broken on the surface into thick appressed scales. The bark of the young stems and branches is 

 smooth and light reddish brown. The branchlets, when they first appear, are slightly tinged with red 

 and coated with loose pale tomentum which soon wears away, and in their first winter they are glabrous 



puberulous 



pube 



toward the extremities, and are marked with numer 



ed lenticels and with large oblong obscurely three-lobed concave leaf 



oblong orange- 

 ded by a broad 



th 



memb 



border which embraces the lower axillary bud. The terminal buds 



acute, 



compressed, half an inch long, covered with clusters of bright yellow articulate hairs, and during the 

 winter are coated with pale tomentum ; the scales are strap-shaped, often obscurely pinnate at the apex. 



bright green on the inner surface and slightly 



The axillary buds are 



com 



pressed, and covered with clusters of yellow articulate hairs, and are often stalked, especially the upper 



of the node, which is frequently twice as large as the buds below. The 



from 



twenty inches in length, and 



composed of from nine to seventeen leaflets and of slender glab 



