162 THE NUT CULTUEIST. 



The trees grow to a very large size, or from sixty to 

 eighty feet high, and two to three feet in diameter, with 

 a thick, deeply furrowed bark, not scaly. The wood is 

 white, heavy, tough, and nearly as valuable as the com- 

 mon shellbark hickory. The terminal buds, and espe- 

 cially those on the young seedlings and suckers spring- 

 ing up in clearings, are very large, round, short, and 

 covered with brownish scales, hence one of the local 

 names of big-bud hickory. 



A widely distributed species, or from the valley of 

 the St. Lawrence to Florida, and along the great lakes 

 to Nebraska, and thence southward to Texas. Unlike 

 most of the other hickories, this species seems to -prefer 

 thin soils, rocky sandstone ridges, and here in New Jer- 

 sey almost disappearing in the rich bottom lands along 

 our creeks and rivers ; at least, this is its habit here in 

 the northern part of the State. 



Synonyms : 



Jnglans alba (?), Linn., 1754. 



Jnglans tomentosa, Michaux, 1810. 



Gary a tomentosa, Nuttall, 1818. 



Gary a tomentosa var. maxima, Nuttall. 



Garya alba* Koch, Dendrologie. 



PIGNUT, HOGNUT, BEOWN HICKORY, BLACK HICK- 

 ORY, SWITCH-BUD HICKORY (Hicona glabra. Mil- 

 ler). Leaflets five to seven, mostly seven (Fig. 49), 

 ovate-lanceolate, serrate, smooth; fruit, pear-shaped or 

 roundish-obovate ; husk very thin, splitting about half 

 way down into four sections or valves, these usually re- 

 maining attached to the nut for some time after falling, 

 in fact, may often be found within the husk all through 

 the winter; shell of nut moderately thin but tough^ 

 with a small, bitterish-sweet kernel. A large, rather 

 slender tree in similar and same localities as the last, 

 with a close bark but not so deeply furrowed as in the 

 mocker nut (H. tomentosa}. Of no special value except 



