JUGLANDACEJE. 



8ILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



159 



central ^ New York, and eastern Pennsyl 



2 



It 



inundated during 



weeks of every year; rare and 



inhabitant of rich deep bottom-lands usually 

 local east of the Alleghany Mountains and 



comparatively rare in Arkansas, Kansas, and the Indian Territory 



of the commonest 



the great river-swamps of central Missouri and the 



Ohio basin, where, growing with the Swamp 



White Oaks, the Tupelo, the Red Maple, the Spanish Oak, the Sweet Gum, the Red Ash, and the 

 Swamp Cottonwood, it attains its greatest size and beauty.^ 



Goria laciniosa is heavy and very hard, strong and tough, close-grained and very 



The wood of Hi 



flexible, with many obscure medullary rays and bands of 



or two large 



open ducts marking the 



lay 



of 



growth 



It 



dark brown, with comparatively thin and nearly white sapwood 



The 



specific gravity of the absolutely dry wood is 0.8108, a cubic foot weighing 50.53 pounds. Confounded 

 commercially with the wood of Carya ovata, it is used in the manufacture of wagons and agricultural 



plements, for the handles of axes and other 



The nuts are sold in the markets of some of the 



western states in large quantities, but commercially are not often distinguished from those of the 

 SheUbark Hickory. 



Hicoria laciniosa, which may be readily recognized at aU seasons of the year by the orange-color 

 of the young branchlets, is hardy as far north as eastern Massachusetts, and in cultivation grows rather 

 more rapidly than the other true Hickories.* Introduced into England in 1804,^ it is occasionally seen 

 in the gardens of central and western Europe.^ 



^ Dudley, Bull. Cornell University, ii. 84 (^Cayuga Flora). and shows three hundred ai 



^ Hicoria laciniosa has been seen by Professor Thomas C. Porter four of which are sapwood. 



annual growth 



of Lafayette College in Franklin, Lancaster, and Bucks counties, 

 and on the banks of the Juniata River in Huntingdon County, 

 Pennsylvania. 



3 Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 78. 



5 Loudon, Arb. Brit. iii. 1448, f. 1271 {Carya sulcata). 

 ^ Like many other deciduous-leaved trees of eastern North 

 America, the Hickories all grow badly in Europe ; and I have 

 never seen a large or well-grown specimen of any of the species 

 * Like the other Hickories, this is a, slow-growing tree in the there, although a century ago great numbers of nuts, carried over 

 forest. The log specimen from Missouri in the Jesup Collection by the Michauxs, were planted in France, and many attempts to 

 of North American Woods In the American Museum of Natural cultivate them have been made in Germany and England. 

 History, New York, is thirty-two inches in diameter inside the bark, 



