Handbook of Tkees of the Nokthern States and Canada. 61 



This stately Hickory occasionally attains 

 the height of 120 ft. and 3 or 4 ft. in diameter 

 of trunk. When growing apart from other 

 trees it develops an oblong or subovoid top 

 with drooping lower branches and with large 

 handsome leaves. Its truidv is vested in very 

 much the same kiiid of sliaggy gray bark that 

 i> seen on the Shiig-bark trunks, though tlie 

 long scales as a rule do not curve outward as 

 much as do those of that species. It is also 

 more distinctly a tree of the bottom-lands ( for 

 which reason it is sometimes called the Bot- 

 l.):n Shell-bark) associating there with the 

 Cottonwood, Hackberr_\-, Slippery Elm, Pep- 

 peridg3. Sweet Gum, Swamp White and Burr 

 Oaks, Black and Red Maples, etc. 



Its wood, of which a cubic foot when al)so- 

 lutely dry weighs 50.53 lbs., is very similar to 

 that of the Shag-bark in properties and valued 

 for tool-handles, agricultural implements, etc. 2 

 The nuts are not considered quite as delicate 

 as those of the Shag-bark in flavor and they 

 do not generally command quite as higli a 

 price in the trade. 



Leaves 12-24 in. lon^. the stout petioles often 

 persisting late into tlie winter; leQets 7 ( i>x 

 ceptionally H or 9(. oblong: lanceolate to ol)ov;it('. 

 usually ol)li()ui' at l)asp (excepting the terminal), 

 serrate acuminate at apex, dark green above, paler 

 and pubi'srent lieneath. Floirrrs in May ; stami- 

 nate with central calyx-lobe narrow and twice as 

 long as the lateral ones. Fruit solitary or 2 or 

 " tosether. ob'ons:. l^-2i'^> in. long with thick 

 woody husk and comnressed thick-shelled yellowish 

 white nut lVi-214 in. loi'- with prominent st.out 

 point at base : seed bright b-nwn. rich and 

 delicious. 



1. Syn. Carya sulcata Nutt 



2. A. W., Ill, 64. 



