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SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



JUGLANDACEiE. 



The Pecan, with its tall straight trunk and great head of cheerful yellow-green foliage, is one of 



o 



the impressive trees of 



North America : and 



amental 



some of the wide-hranched 



specimens, planted early in the century to shade the homes of the Creole planters of Louisiana and 

 now grown to vast proportions, rival the Elms of the New England farmhouse and the Live Oaks of 

 the Carolina mansion in statehness and grandeur. 



noix fort petite, & qu'on prendroit au coup d'ceil pour des noi- cultivated tree in the nursery of William Prince at Flushing, New 



settes, parce qu'elles en ont la forme, la couleur, & la coque aussi York. This tree had not borne fruit, and Wangenheim's figure 



tendre ; mais en dedans elles sont figur^es conime les noix : elles probably represented a peanut. The Pecan does not seem to have 



sont plus d^licates que les notres, moins huilleuses & d'un gout si been known on the Atlantic seaboard before 1762, when some of 



fin, que les Frangois en font des pralines aussi bonnes que celles the nuts were carried to New York by fur-traders from the Missis- 



d'amandes." {Histoire de la Louisiane, ii. 26.) 



sippi valley. In 1772 William Prince planted thirty nuts and suc- 



The first description of the Pecan-tree was published in the Ar- ceeded in raising ten plants, eight of which he sold in England for 

 bustum Americanum of Marshall, who evidently had never seen it ; ten guineas each (Brendel, Am. Nat xiii. 757). 

 the next account was that of Wangenheim, drawn up from a small 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



Plate CCCXXXVIIL Hicoria Pecan 



1. A flowering branch, natural size. 



2. Diagram of a staminate flower. 



3. Diagram of a pistillate flower. 



4. A staminate flower, front view, enlarged. 

 6. A staminate flower, rear view, enlarged. 



6. A stamen, enlarged. 



7. A pistillate flower, enlarged. 



8. Diagram of a winter-bud. 



Plate CCCXXXIX. Hicoria Pecai.-. 



1. A fruiting branch, natural size. 



2. A nut, natural size. 



3. A nut, natural size. 



4. A nut, natural size. 



5. Cross section of a nut, natural size. 



6. A thin-shelled nut cut transversely, natural size^ 



7. A leaf, reduced. 



8. A winter branchlet, natural size. 



