NORTH CAROLINA SHAGBARK (Hicoria Carolince-septentri- 

 onalis, Ashe). 20 to 30 feet; rarely 80 feet. Slender tree 

 with oblong, narrow head of gray limbs ending in slim, red- 

 brown twigs. Bark shaggy, light gray, thin, peeling in elastic, 

 tough strips. Wood reddish brown, tough, hard, strong, used 

 for same purposes as that of northern shagbark. Leaves 4 to 8 

 inches long, of 3 or 5 narrow, tapering leaflets, dark green 

 above lined with yellow-green, lustrous, turning yellow. Flow- 

 ers golden, pubescent; staminate catkins axillary; pistillate 

 paired, terminal, inconspicuous. Fruit a prominently angled 

 nut, flattened at apex, in thin, rough, red-brown husk, that 

 splits in 4 parts, to base. Shell thin; kernel sweet, light 

 brown. Dist. : Limestone uplands of western North Carolina 

 and eastern Tennessee, and into northern Georgia and centra) 

 Alabama. 



