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Genus HICORIA, Raf. CARYA, Nutt.. (Hickory.) 



From a Greek word meaning round, in allusion to the shape of the nut. 



Fig. 104. Shag-bark, Shag-bark Hickory, Shell-bark 

 Hickory. H. ovata (Mill}, Britton. C. alba, Nutt. 



Leaves, COMPOUND (odd-feathered ; leaflets, five) ; ALTER- 

 NATE ; EDGE OF LEAFLETS SHARP-TOOTHED. 



Outline of leaflet, long oval, reverse egg-shape or egg- 

 shape, the lower pair differing in shape from the 

 others, and much smaller. Apex, long-pointed. 

 Base of the end leaflet, wedge-shape ; of the others, 

 more or less blunted. 



Leaf-stem, rough throughout. Buds, large and scaly, 

 often of a green and brown color. 



Leaflet-stems, lacking (or scarcely noticeable), excepting 

 the roughish stem of the end leaflet. 



Leaflets, four to eight inches long ; roughish below. 



Bark, dark and very rough in the older trunks, peeling 

 up and down in long, shaggy strips. Often the 

 strips cling at their middle and are loose at each 

 end. 



Fruit, round, nearly one and a half to two inches 

 in diameter ; the husk, thick (nearly half an 

 inch), depressed at the centre, grooved at the 

 seams, and wholly separating into four pieces at 

 maturity ; the nut, about one inch long, often the 

 same in breadth, slightly flattened at the sides, 

 angular, nearly pointless, whitish, with a rather thin 

 shell, and a large finely flavored kernel. October. 



Found, from the valley of the St. Lawrence River to 

 Southeastern Minnesota, and southward to Western 

 Florida. Its finest growth is west of the Alleghany 

 Mountains. 



