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The Pale- leaf Hickory is a 

 iiK'diuni si/A', not often iiiorc tl 

 in height or 18 or 20 in. in thi 

 which is covered with a grayi 

 very rougli with [)roininent 



forest tree of 

 laii 4(t or .')() ft. 

 ckiu'ss of tr\ink 

 sh hrowii hark, 

 ■onnected scalv 



ridges. When growing apart from other trees it 

 develops a rather narrow oblong top with up- 

 right branches and pendulous lower branches. 

 It inhabits well drained slope.s, sandy plains 

 and rocky ritlges, sometimes fruiting when 

 only a few feet in height. It is abun- 

 dant in the southern part of its I'ange, par- 

 ticularly the foothill region of the southern 

 AUeghanies. 



Its wood is heavy, hard, strong and tough 

 and excellent for tool-handles, agricultural 

 im])lements and for fuel.- The nuts are sweet 

 and edible. 



Leaves 6-10 in. long, with slender pubescent 

 petioles and usually 7 (sometimes "i or !») leflets 

 which vary from lanceolate to lance-obovate, ser- 

 rate, acuminate, and when yoimg pubescent and 

 covered beneath with silvery peltate scales and 

 resin-globules, but at maturity glabrous dark groon 

 above and yellowish beneath : winter l)uds small 

 with fi-8 imbricated scales, the outer dotted with 

 resin-globules. Floirers staminate in scurfy pubes- 

 cent catkins, .">-7 in. long: central calyx-lobe much 

 longer than the lateral ones. Fruit subglobose to 

 pyriform. 1-1% in. long, compressed with tbin 

 husk splitting nearly to the linso : nut sli;lilly 

 angled, pale brown with thick shell and small 

 sweet seed. 



1. Syu. Hicuria iJuUiihi .Vshe. 



