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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



129 C. inyrislicoefiS 



tnyme. Juglans myristicaeforinis Michx. Arb. 1. p. 211. 



ravings. Michx. Arb., 1. 1. 10.; North Amer. Sylva, t. 39. ; and our fig. 1429. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaflets, in a leaf, 9; ^ 



ovate-acuminate, serrate, glabrous ; the 

 terminal one nearly sessile. Fruit 

 ovate, roughish. Nut oval, with a 

 small point at each end, even, brown 

 with longitudinal lines of white ; in 

 which it resembles a nutmeg, which 

 is the seed of Myristica moschata ; 

 and hence the epithet myristicasformis. 

 (Michx.) A large deciduous tree. 

 South Carolina. 



Very little is known of this tree, 

 which Michaux described from a branch and a handful of nuts, which were 

 given to him by a gardener at Charleston. 



* 9. C. MICROCA'RPA Nutt. The small-fruited Carya, or Hickory. 



Identification. Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. PL, 2. p. 221. 



Engraving. Our fig. 1430. from a specimen in the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes, at Paris. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaflets, in a leaf, about 5 ; oblong-lanceolate, conspicuously 

 acuminate, argutely serrulate, glabrous ; glandular beneath ; terminal one 

 subpetiolate. Fruit subglo- 

 bose. Husk thin. Nut partly 

 quadrangular, small ; its shell 

 rather thin, its mucro obso- 

 lete and truncate. Fruit 

 much like that of C. tomen^ 

 tosa, and eatable; but very 

 small, the nut not exceed- 

 ing the size of a nutmeg. 

 Catkins trifid, very long, gla- 

 brous, without involucre ; 

 scales 3-parted, their lateral 

 segments ovate, the central 

 one linear. Anthers pilose, 

 mostly 4, sometimes 3, some- 

 times 5. Female flowers 2 

 or 3 together ; common pe- 

 duncle bracteolate. Seg- 

 ments of the calyx very long, 

 and somewhat leafy. Stigma 

 sessile, discoid, 4-lobed, some- 

 what rhomboidal. (Nuttall) 

 A large deciduous tree. Phi- 

 ladelphia, on the banks of the 

 Scrmylkill. 



Other Species of Cdri/a. C. ambigua (./uglans ambigua Michx.) is de- 

 scribed in books, but not yet introduced ; C. pubescens Link is supposed to 

 have been introduced ; and C. rigida (/. rigida Lodd. Cat.) is in the Hacknev 

 Arboretum, but appears to be only a variety of C. alba. C. integrifolius 

 Spreng. (Hicorius integrifolius Raftnesque) is probably an imaginary species. 

 From the circumstance of the species of Juglans and Carya crossing so freelv 

 with one another, and the seeds of the produce coming true to the cross- 

 breeds thus produced, it is not unlikely that some of the species, even of the 

 native woods of America, may have been so originated. The fact stated in 

 p. 733. respecting a hybrid between JTiglans regia and /. nigra would seem to 

 justify these remarks/ 



