BITTER PECAN; WATER HICKORY (Hicoria aquatica, Britt). 

 iO to 60 feet, rarely 100 feet. Slender tree, with narrow 

 head of dark-red branches ending in ashy-gray, fuzzy, and 

 glandular twigs, and dark, small buds,^ coated with yellow 

 glands. Bark reddish, thin, shedding in'plates. Wood dark, 

 brittle, close, with wide, pale sapwood, used for fuel. Leaves 

 9 to 15 inches long, of 7 to 13 narrow, saw-toothed leaflets, 

 thin, dark green, with brownish linings, smooth or fuzzy. 

 Flowers smaller but of same type as preceding species; hairy. 

 Fruit often 4 or 5 in a cluster, flattened, narrowed to base, 

 yellow, fuzzy, thin-winged valves of husk slow to part, then 

 only to middle; shell thin, dark, 4-ridged, wrinkled, with red, 

 bitter powder covering the dark kernel. Dist. : Coast swamps 

 Virginia to Texas; Mississippi bayous and lowlands. Illinois 

 to the Gulf. 



