LXVII. 



741 



dcrs of swamps. Height 70 ft. to 80 ft. Introd. 1756. Flowers greenish ; 

 May. Fruit with a greenish husk, enclosing a brownish nut ; ripe November. 



1427. C. porcin 



Variety, 



C. p. 2 glabra. Juglans porcina (3 ficiformis Michx. Arb. i. p. 

 J. glabra MuJd. in Nov. Act. Soc. Nat. &c. iii. p. 391. (Oui 



209. ; 

 >ur figs. 



1426. b, and 1428. b.) Husk of the fruit shaped like a small fig, 

 instead of being round, like the species. 

 The leaves generally consist 

 of three pairs of leaflets, and 

 an odd one. The leaflets are 

 4 or 5 inches long, acuminated, 

 serrated, nearly sessile, and 

 glabrous on both sides. On 

 vigorous trees which grow in 

 shady exposures the petiole is 

 of a violet colour. The husk 

 of the fruit is thin, of a beauti- 

 ful green; and, when ripe, it 

 opens through half its length 

 for the passage of the nut, 

 which is small, smooth, and 

 very hard, on account of the 

 thickness of the shell. The 

 kernel is sweet, but meagre, 

 and difficult to extract, from 

 the firmness of the partition. 

 These nuts, in America, are 

 never carried to market, but 

 serve for food for swine, ra- 

 coons, and numerous squirrels which people the forests. The wood is 

 stronger and better than that of any other kind of hickory. There were 

 numerous specimens in the Bois de Boulogne in 1840, which were sown 

 by Michaux fils in 1822. 



* 8. C. MYRISTICJEFO'RMIS Nutt. The H3atmeg-\ike-f rutted Carya, or Nutmeg 



Hickory. 

 Identification. Nutt. Gen. Aimer. PL, 2. p. 222. 



SB 3 



C. porcina. 



