JUGLANDACKffi. 



SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



153 



HIOORIA OVATA. 



Shellbark Hickory. Shagbark Hickory. 



Leaflets 5 or 7 



obovate to oblong-lanceolate, ciliate on the 



marg 



Fruit 



globose, depressed at the apex ; nut ovate, more or less flattened, 4-angled, thin or 

 thick-shelled, pale or nearly white. 



Hicoria ovata, Britton, Bull. Torrey Bot. Cluhy xv. 283 Juglans obcordata, Poiret, Lam. Diet. iv. 504 (1797). 



(1888). 



Dippel, Handb, Laitbholzk. ii. 335. — Koehne, Juglans squamosa, Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. i. 190, t. 



Deutsche Dendr. 72, f. 22 C. C. C"- 

 Juglans ovata, Miller, Diet. ed. 8, No. 6 (1768). 

 Juglans alba ovata, Marshall, Arbust. Am. 69 (1785). 



Castiglioni, Viag. negli Stati Uniti, ii. 262. — Borkhau- 

 sen, Handb. Forstbot. i. 762. 

 Juglans ovalis, Wangenheim, Nordam. Holz. 24, t. 10, f. 



23 (1787). 

 Juglans compressa, Gsertner, Fritct. ii. 51, t. 89, £. 1 



(1791). — Muehlenberg & Willdenow, Neue Schrift. 

 Gesell. nat. Fr. Berlin^ iii. 390. — Willdenow, Spec. iv. 

 458 ; Enum. 979 ; BerL Baicmz. ed. 2, 195. — Persoon, 

 Syn. ii. 566- — Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii. 347. — Aiton, 

 Hort. Kew. ed. 2, v. 297. — Hayne, Dendr. Fl. 164. 

 Poiret, Lam>. Diet. iii. 365, t. 781, f. 3. 

 Juglans alba, Michaux, FL Bor.~Am. ii. 193 (not Linnaeus) 

 (1803), — Pursh, FL Am. Sept. ii. 637. — Du Mont de 

 Courset, Bot. Cult. ed. 2, vi- 235. 



7 (not Poiret) (1810). — Bigelow, Fl. Boston. 229. 

 Carya alba, Nuttall, Gen. ii. 221 (1818). — EUiott, Sk.'± 



Sprengel, Syst. iii. 849. — Spach, Hist. Veg. ii. 

 Loudon, Arb. Brit. iii. 1446, f . 1269, t. — Hooker, 



Dar- 



624. 

 174. 



FL Bor.'Am. ii. 143. — Torrey, FL N. Y. 181. 

 lington, FL Cestr. ed. 3, 263. — Ed. Morren, Beige Hort 

 vi. 223, t. 45, f. 8. — Curtis, Rep. Geolog. Surv. N. Car. 

 1860, iii. 43. — Chapman, FL 418. — C. de CandoUe, Ann 

 Sci. Nat. siv. 4, xviii. 36, t. 2, f . 13, 14, 18 ; Prodr. xvi 



pt. ii. 142. — Emerson, Trees Mass. 191, t. 12. 

 gent. Forest Trees N. Am. 10th Census U. S. ix. 132. 



Sar- 



Watson & Coulter, Gray^s Man. ed. 6, 468 

 Wald. Nordam. 158, f. 4, t. 4. 



Mayr, 



Hicorius ovatus, Sargent, Garden and Forest^ ii. 460 

 (1889). 



A tree, often seventy to ninety feet and occasionally one hundred and twenty feet in height, with 

 a tall straight columnar shaft three or four feet in diameter, in the forest often free of branches for 



fifty or sixty feet above 



the ground, and 



then dividing into two or three comparatively small limbs 



which form a narrow head ; or, when it has had sufficient space for its free development, sometimes 

 dividing near the ground into stout slightly spreading limbs which form a narrow inversely conical 

 round-topped head of more or less pendulous branches, or growing with a single stem, forked perhaps 

 at half the height of the tree, and retaining its short small lateral branches which spread at nearly right 

 angles to the trunk, droop toward their extremities, and form an oblong round-topped symmetrical 

 head. The bark of the trunk is light gray, and from three quarters of an inch to an inch in thickness, 

 and separates in thick strips often a foot or more long and six or eight inches wide, which remain more 

 or less closely attached to the trunk by the middle, giving it the shaggy appearance to which the tree owes 

 its common name ; the bark of the young stems and branches is smooth and light gray. The branchlets 

 are stout, and marked with oblong pale lenticels ; when they first appear they are slightly angled, covered, 

 like the young leaves and the inflorescence, with caducous brown scurf, and coated with pale grandular 

 pubescence, and during their first year are bright reddish brown or light gray, glabrous and lustrous, 

 or covered more or less thickly with short rufous pubescence, growing dark gray in their second 

 year, and ultimately light gray. The leaf-scars are ovate to nearly semiorbicular in outline, or are 



very obscurely three-lobed, emarginate at the apex, pale, and shghtly elevated. 



The terminal buds 



are broadly ovate, rather obtuse, and from one half to three quarters of an inch long, and from 

 one third to one half of an inch broad ; their three or four outer scales are broadly ovate, nearly 

 triano-ular, acute, dark brown, pubescent and hirsute on the outer surface^ the exterior ones being 

 often abruptly narrowed into long rigid points, and, opening as the bud enlarges in the autumn, fall 



