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THE XTT CULTURIST. 



CASTANRA NANA (lush chinquapin). Leaves oval- 

 lanceolate, serrate, with feeble prickles on teeth and often 



wanting; pale 

 green above and 

 white tomentose 

 underneath. 

 Burs in racemes, 

 small; husk 

 thin, opening by 

 two divisions or 

 lobes, instead of 

 four, as in the 

 last species; 

 spines short, 

 somewhat scat- 

 tering, sessile or 

 very short-stalk- 

 ed ; nuts small, 

 pointed, brown, 

 smooth, tliin- 

 shelled, solitary 

 or only one in a 

 our. Kernel 

 fine-grained, 

 sweet and deli- 

 cious. Common 

 from North Car- 

 olina southward 

 to Florida, in 

 dry soils and 

 barrens. A me- 



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 FIG. 21. SPIKE OF CHINQUAPIN CHESTNUT BUR. * Um ~ S1ZeC l 



c. pumiia. shrub or low- 



spreading bush, rarely reaching a hight of ten feet, the 

 slender twigs usually tomentose. A spike of burs and 

 leaves of this species are seen, in Fig. 20. 



