Trees of the Northerx United States lOf) 



shelled, angled ; seed small, sweet. Wood hard and dark 

 hrown. Del. to Fla. and Mo. 



7. Hicoria alba (L.) Britt. Mockernut (Hickory). 

 A large tree with close rough bark. Leaflets 7-9, oblong- 

 lanceolate or the upper Oiblanceolate or obovate, long-acumin- 

 ate ; fruit globose or oblong-globose; husk thick; nut grayish- 

 white, angled, pointed at the summit, little compressed, thick- 

 shelled; kernel small but sweet and edible. Wood much like 

 in H. ovata, very hard and tough, dark brown. Tn rich soil. 

 Mass. to Out.. Xeb., Fla., and Tex. 



8. •Hicoria laciniosa (AIx. f.) Sarg. Shellbark (Hick- 

 ory). A large tree with the bark separating in long narrow 

 plates and with a long tap root. Leaflets 7-9, rarely 5, acute 

 or acuminate, sometimes 8 in. long; fruit oblong; husk thick, 

 soon splitting to the base; nut oblong, somewhat compressed, 

 thick-shelled, pointed at both ends, yellowish-white; seed 

 sweet and edible. Wood like in H. ovata, strong and toug'h. 

 In rich soil. N. '^'. and Ohio to Iowa, Kan., Okla., and Tenn. 



!». Hicoria carolinae-septentrionalis Ashe. Southern 

 Shag])ark (Hickory). A tree with gray bark hanging in 

 loose strips. Leaflets o-5, glal)rous, ciliate; fruit subglobose ; 

 husk soon falling into four pieces ; nut white or brownish, 

 nnicli compressed, angled, cordate or subcordate at the top, 

 tliin-shelled. Li sandy or rocky soil. Del. to Ga.. and Tenn. 

 -M:^ Hicoria ovata (Mill.) Britt. Shagbark (Hickory). 

 A large tree with shaggy hark in narrow plates. Leaflets 5, 

 sometimes 7. ol)long, oblong-lanceolate, or the upper obovate. 

 acuminate at the apex, narrowed to the sessile base ; fruit 

 sul)glol)Ose; husk thick, soon splitting; nut white, somewhat 

 compressed, pointed, slightly angled, thin-shelled. Seed finely 

 flavored, most "hickory nuts" of the markets being from this 

 species. Wood very heavy, hard, tough, and elastic; used 

 for agricultural implements, carriages, wagon stock, axe- 

 liandles, cooperage, sucker rods, wheel spokes, etc. Also a 

 line .fuel wood. Not durable in the ground. Tn rich soil. 

 Quebec to Minn., Fla.. Kan., and Tex. 



(i-J. Jiiglans L. W'alnm. 



Large trees with laternate odd-pinnately com))ound leax'es 

 and diaphragmed pith. 



