6o4 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



Sir William Strickland, grandfather of the present owner ; and several other hickories 

 planted at the same time have disappeared, one being blown down. 



At Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire, a seat of Earl Cawdor, a tree, which is 

 supposed to have been planted in 1865, is 42 feet by 3 feet i inch. At Fonthill 

 Abbey, Wilts, a tree, with very scaly bark, is 62 feet by 4 feet i inch. At Althorp 

 there is a tree 75 feet by 3 feet 6 inches, growing in a dense thicket of laurels near 

 the house. 



A hickory which was perhaps of this species grew close to the house at 

 Moncreiffe near Perth, and is mentioned by Hunter as being the finest in Scotland. 

 It had a bole 20 feet long by 5 feet 9 inches, and was cut down about six years ago. 

 The timber was used for making gates. 



At Kinblethmont, Arbroath, H. Lindsay Carnegie, Esq., reports a tree 46 feet 

 high by 2 feet 1 1 inches in girth. It was planted by his father about 1825. 



In Ireland, the only specimens which Henry has seen are two small trees about 

 a foot in diameter, growing in the Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin, and two at 

 Kilmacurragh, in Wicklow, about 35 feet high. (H. J. E.) 



CARYA PORCINA, Pignut 



Carya porcina, Nuttall, Gen. Am. ii. 222 (1818); Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iii. 1449 (1838). 



Carya obcordata, Sweet, Hort. Brit. 97 (1827). 



Carya glabra} Spach, Hist. Veg. ii. 179 (1834). 

 Juglans glabra. Miller, Diet. ed. 8, No. 5 (1768). 

 Juglans squamosa, Poiret, in Lamarck, Diet. iv. 504 (1797). 



Juglans obcordata, Muehlenberg u. Willdenow, Neue Sehrift. Ges. Nat. Fr. Berlin, iii. 392 (1801). 

 Juglans poreina, Michaux f.. Hist. Arb. Am. i. 206 (1810). 



Hicoria glabra, Britton, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, xv. 284 (1888); Sargent, Silva N. Atner. vii. 165, 

 ". 352-355 (1895), and Trees N. Amer. 144 (1905). 



Hicorius glaber, Sargent, Garden and Forest, ii. 460 (1889). 



A tree attaining in America 90 feet in height and 12 feet in girth. Bark 

 greyish, ultimately Assuring into narrow longitudinal ridges, occasionally on old trees 

 breaking on the surface into loose thick scales. Terminal buds, \ X.o \ inch long, 

 globose or ellipsoidal, with ten to twelve imbricated scales ; outer scales usually 

 deciduous in winter, keeled, acute, or pointed, glabrous, ciliate, often glandular ; inner 

 scales pubescent, enlarging to 2 inches long as the bud unfolds. Lateral buds small, 

 ovoid, often glandular, with two scales visible externally. Branchlets glabrous, or 

 rarely with a minute pubescence speedily disappearing. Leaves (Plate 203, Fig. 2) 

 8 to 12 inches long. Leaflets, five to seven, upper three obovate, lower one 

 or two pairs oblong lanceolate, all acuminate ; margin without cilia ; upper surface 

 glabrous, with numerous minute glands ; lower surface glabrous, except for slight 

 tufts of pubescence in the axils of the midrib and lateral nerves, covered with 

 numerous glands ; rachis glabrous. 



I This is given as Carya glabra, Sctmeider, by Saigent in Bot. Gazette, xliv. 226 (1907). 



