BUTTERNUT; WHITE WALNUT; OIL NUT (Juglans cinerea, 

 Linn.). 50 to 75 feet. Short-trunked, spreading, irregular 

 tree, with round dome. Bark rough, gray, paler in furrows 

 that are broader than the ridges. Twigs clammy, pubescent 

 with chambered pith. Buds often one above another in 

 axils, downy. Wood light brown, soft, coarse, with satiny 

 lustre when polished. Used for cabinet-work and interior 

 finish of houses. Leaves alternate, compound, of 11 to 19 

 leaflets, along the stalk 15 to 30 inches long; aromatic, 

 clammy, pubescent; leaflets yellow-green, saw- toothed, ses- 

 sile, pointed. Yellow in autumn. Flowers May; staminate 

 in long, yellowish catkins; pistillate in racemes, clammy, each 

 with 2 red, spreading stigmas. Fruit October, few in cluster, 

 oblong, clammy, pubescent, pointed, 2 to 3 inches long; shell 

 deeply sculptured; kernel oily, sweet, edible. Dist.: Rich 

 loam or well-drained uplands, New Brunswick to Delaware; 

 along mountains to Georgia and Alabama; west through On- 

 tario to Dakota, and south through the Central States to Ar- 

 kansas. 



