JUGLANDACKa:. 



8ILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



141 



HICORIA MINIMA. 



Bitternut. 



Swamp Hickory. 



Leaflets 5 to 9, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate 



rly to the middle 



Fruit 4-winged from the apex 

 nut ovate or oblong, often broader than long, thin-shelled; 



kernel bitter. Winter buds bright yellow 



Handb 



Hi cor i a minima 



(1888). 



Koehne, Deutsche Dendr. 73, f. 23 F. F'. — Coulter, Con- 



trib. U. S. Nat. Herb. ii. 411 {Man. PI. W. Texas). 

 Juglans alba minima, Marshall^ 



Castiglioni, Viag. negli Stati Uniti, ii. 262. 

 Juglans cordiformis, Wangenheim, Nordam. Holz. 25, t. 



10, f. 25 (1787). 



Juglans angustifolia, Poiret, Lam. Diet. iv. 504 (not Aiton) 



Club, XV. 284 Juglans amara, Michaux f. Hist 



111, t. 4 



(1797). 



Du Mont de Courset, Bot. Cidt. ed. 2, vi. 236. 



Juglans sulcata, Willdenow, Berl. Baumz. 154 (1796) ; 

 Spec. iv. 457. — Borkhausen, Handb. Forstbot. i. 758. 

 Muehlenberg & Willdenow, Neue Schrift. Gesell. nat. Ft. 

 Berlin, iii. 391. — Persoon, Syn. ii. 566. — Desfontaines, 

 Hist. Arb. ii. 348. 



Juglans minima, Borkhausen, 



Handb 



760 



(1800). 



Juglans mucronata, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 192 (1803) 



(1810). 



Fl 



amara 



626. 



Sprengel, Syst. iii. 849. 



Elliott, Sk. 

 Hist. Veg. ii. 

 ey, Fl. N. Y. 

 Darling- 

 ton, Fl. Cestr. ed. 3, 264. — Curtis, Rep. Geolog. Surv. 



111. 



144 



183. 



Mass 



N. 



1860, 



• • * 



111. 



44. 



Nat 



Chapman, Fl. 419. — C. de 



65 ; Prodr. xvi. pt. ii. 144. — Koch, Dendr. I 592. 

 Lauche, Deutsche Dendr. 308. — Ridgway, Proc. U. S> 

 Nat. Mns. 1882, 77. — Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. 

 10th Census U. S. ix. 135. — Watson & Coulter. 



Gray 



Man 



Mayr, Wald. Nordam 



amara, Ri 

 minimus 



(1889). 



A tree^ often one hundred feet in height^ with a tall straight trunk two to three feet in diameter, 

 and stout spreading limbs which form a broad handsome head of slender rather stiff upright branches ; 

 or toward the northern and southern limits of its range much smaller. The bark of the trunk is from 

 one third to three quarters of an inch in thickness^ light brown tinged with red, and broken into thin 

 plate-like scales, their surface separating in small thin flakes* The branchlets are slender and marked 

 with oblong pale lenticels, and when they first appear are bright green and covered more or less thickly 

 with rusty hairs which soon disappear ; during their first summer they are reddish brown and glabrous 

 or puberulous ; during the winter they are reddish or orange-brown and lustrous, with small elevated 

 obscurely three-lobed obcordate leaf-scars, and are often covered toward the apex with the clusters of 

 bright yellow articulate hairs that likewise clothe the buds and the fruit ; in the second year they grow 

 gradually darker and ultimately are hght gray. The terminal buds are from one third to three quarters 

 of an inch long, compressed, oblique at the apex, and covered by two pairs of scales, the outer pair being 

 ovate or obovate, rounded and reticulate or sometimes obscurely pinnate at the apex, yellow-green and 

 puberulous on the inner surface, while the inner pair are strap-shaped, pinnate at the apex, coated on the 

 back with rufous tomentum, and sprinkled with golden glands, reflexed and an inch and a half long at 

 maturity, resembling in their broad flat stalks and in their covering the first pair of leaves. The lateral 

 buds are compressed, slightly four-angled, often stalked, and from one eighth to one quarter of an inch 

 in length, with ovate pointed scales keeled on the back, pubescent on the inner surface, slightly accres- 

 cent and reflexed after the opening of the bud. The leaves are composed of from five to nine leaflets 

 and slender pubescent or hirsute slightly grooved petioles, and are from six to ten inches long ; the 

 leaflets, which increase in size from the base to the apex of the leaf, are lanceolate to oblong or ovate- 



