l+^S AltnOKI'.Tl'M AND lit U'l'ICKTUM. I'Airi' III. 



nearly twice as large as that of the species ; and having a white shell, with 

 rounded prominences instead of angles. A century of cultivation, he says, 

 would perhaps not advance the species generally to an e(|ual degree of perfec- 

 tion with this accidental variety. Fig. 1-^70. represents the .Vphinj- juglandis, 

 or Hickory Hawk Moth, which in (ieorgia is found on this tree. The cater- 

 pillar is smaller than that of most of tiie otiier species, and generally is of a 

 shaded red and yellow, though it is sometimes green. The perfect insects arc 

 brown, and resemble the English poplar hawk moth. The caterpillar buries 

 in the ground, and varies very much as to the time in continues there : one 

 observed by AblH)tt having gone into the ground in May, and reappeared in 

 June ; and another having buried itself in September, and remained in the 

 ground till the following April. {Abhotl and Siiiil/t, Iiixects of Georgia.) 



Slatistics. Near London, at Mount Grove, Hampstead, 80 years old, it is 58 ft. high, diameter 

 of the trunk 1ft. II in., and of the head 47 ft. ; at Syon, it is 7'J It. high, diameter of the trunk 

 2 ft. 3 in., and of the head 4i) It. ; at Fulhani Palace, 4(1 years planted, it is 40 ft. high, the diameter 

 of the trunk 1 ft 6 in., and of the head 2o ft. ; at Ham House, E-ssex, 6.5 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 

 1ft. 10 in., and of the head 33 ft. In Sussex, at West Dean, '20 years planted, it is 36 ft. high. In 

 Bedfordshire, at South Hill, it is 3;5ft. high, diameter of the trunk 23 in., and of the head 30 ft. In 

 Cambridgeshire, at Wimpolc, 100 years old, with a trunk 3 ft. in diameter. In Durham, at Southend, 

 15 years planted, it is ,'50 ft. high. In Worcestershire, at Croomc, 15 years planted, it is 30 ft. high. 

 In Hertfordshire, at Cheshuiit, 14 years old and 19 ft. high ; diameter of the trunk 6 in., and that of 

 the space covered by the branches IS ft. In Nottinghamshire, at Nottingham, in Clumber I'ark, 

 52 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the top 53 ft. In Scotland, in Kerwickshire.at the llirsel, 

 6 years planted, it is 9tt. high. In Messrs. Dickson and Tunibull's Nursery, Perth, i'6 years old. it is 

 25 ft. high. In France, at Toulon, in the Hotanic Garden, 50 years old, it is 70 ft. high ; the diameter 

 of tlie trunk 5 ft. 11 in In Austria, at Vienna, in the University Botanic (iarden, 45 years planted, 

 it is 35 ft. high; the diameter of the trunk 1 It. 3 in., and of the head 25 ft. 



t 6. C. SULCA^TA Xutt. The ^urrowcd-f rutted Carya, or Ilir/cort/. 



Identification. Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. PI., 2. p. 221. 



St/nonv»ics. Jilglans lacinibsa Michx. Arb., 1. p. liW., North Amer. Sj/lva, 1. p.l88. ; ./. mucroniita.V/(7/j-. 



r/. Bur. Amer., 2. p. 192. ; J. sulcflta jrnid. Arb., 154., t. 7., Kov. Act. Soc. Nat. Scnit. lirrot., 3. 



p. 391., n'il/d. Sp. PI., 4. p. 4.57. Piirsh Ft. Amer. .Sept., 2. p. 637.; thick Shell-batk Hickory, 



Springfield Nut, Gloucester Nut, Amer. 

 Engravings. Willd. Arb., t. 7. ; Michx. Arb., 1. t. 8. : North Amer. Sylva, t. 37. ; and our Jig. 1271. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Leaflets, in a leaf, 7 — 9 ; obovate-acuminate, argutely 

 serrate ; downy beneath. Fruit roundish, having 4 longitudinal ridges that 

 extend from the tip to the middle, and 4 intervening depressions, or furrows. 

 Husk dividing, from one extremity to the other, in the line of the furrows, 

 into 4 equal valves. Nut subglobose, slightly compressed, having a long 

 mucro at the tip, and a shorter stouter one at the base ; yellowish. Bark 

 exfoliating in long narrow strips. (Michx. N.A.S., Piirsh Fl. A. S.) A 

 native of North America, in fertile valleys in the Alleghany Mountains ; and 

 flowering in April and May. Introduced in 1804. 



Dcscriplion. Michaux says, speaking generally of the scaly-bark hick- 

 ories, that " they exhibit many striking traits of resemblance which may 

 warrant the grouping of them into a separate section. Besides their 

 generic and specific characters, they possess others peculiar to themselves, 

 by which they are so nearly related, that, were it not for some remarkable 

 dififerences, they might be treated as a single species." C. sulcata grows to 

 the height of 80 ft., with an ample head, and a straight trunk. The bark is 

 divided into strips, or shreds, from 1 ft. to .3 ft. long, the pieces of which, 

 when they are ready to scale ofl', are warped outwards at each end, and attached 

 only in the middle. When they fall, they are succeeded by others simihrly 

 exposed. In this species, Michaux observes, the plates of bark are narrower, 

 more numerous, and of a lighter colour, than those of C. alba; from which 

 differences he thought it advisable to give it the specific name of laciniosa. 

 The leaves vary in length from 8 in. to 20 in., and are composed of from 7 to 

 9 leaflets; whereas in C. alba, the shell-bark hickory, the leaflets are invari- 

 ablv -J. The barren catkins arc long, glabrous, filiform, and |)endulous ; 3 

 being united on a common petiole, attached to the basis of the young shoots. 

 The fertile flowers ap|)ear, not very conspicuously, at the extremity of the 

 shoots of the same spring. They are succeeded by a large oval fruit, more 

 than 2 in. long, and 4 in. or .'i in. in circumference. It has four de|)re.ssed 



