MOCKERNUT; BIG BUD HICKORY (Hicoria alba, Britt.). 50 

 ro 80 feet; rarely 100 feet. Tall trunk with round, spreading, 

 or narrow head of stiff upright, and lower, drooping branches. 

 Twigs with thick, pale, hairy coating; brownish, with showy 

 pale lenticels, and big terminal winter buds, ovate, to | inch 

 long, with leathery, keeled scales. Bark gray, thick, with 

 shallow, irregular fissures, and scaly ridges. Wood heavy, 

 hard, tough, flexible, dark brown, close-grained, used for the 

 ^ame purposes as shellbark hickory wood. Leaves alternate, 

 8 to 12 inches long, of 5 to 7 leaflets, saw-toothed, taper- 

 pointed, downy, pale or orange beneath, yellow-green, lustrous 

 above, turning russet in fall; fragrant. Flowers May, in cat- 

 kins and terminal spikes, downy, red-tipped. Fruit a globular, 

 thick-shelled, ridged nut, in husk that parts down to middle 

 or lower, often 2 inches long, reddish, strong-scented. Dist.: 

 Southern Ontario to northern Florida; west to Kansas and 

 Texas. Widely distributed in the South. Rare north of the 

 Ohio River. Abundant on sandy lowlands along southern 

 shores and deHas. 



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