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kernel is full, and, not being divided by ligneous partitions, is easily ex- 

 tracted, and of an agreeable taste. The wood is coarse-grained, and, like 

 that of the other hickories, is heavy and compact, possessing great strength 

 and durability. The nuts are exported to the West Indies, and to the ports 

 of the United States ; and Michaux considers them as more delicately flavoured 

 than any of the nuts of Europe. 



t 2. C. AMA^RA Nutt. The bitter-nw^ Carya, or Hickory. 



Identification. Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. PI., 2. p. 222 



Synonymes. JClglans amara Michx. Arb. 1. p. 170. ; Bitter-nut, White Hickory, Swamp Hickory, 



Amer. 

 Engravings. Michx. North Amer. Sylra, 1. t. 33. ; and our fig. 1420. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaflets, in a leaf, 7 9 ; ovate-oblong, acuminate, serrate 

 with deep teeth, glabrous ; lateral ones sessile. Sets of catkins in pairs. 

 Fruit roundish-ovate, bearing, in its upper half, 4 wing-like ridges ; husk 

 thin and fleshy, softening and decaying, and never becoming ligneous, as in 

 the other species. Nut subglobose, broader than long, tipped with a mucro. 

 Seed bitter. {Michx.) A large deciduous tree. New England to Maryland, 

 in dry woods in fertile soil, on the mountains. Introduced in 1800. 

 Flowers greenish ; April. Fruit with a greenish husk, enclosing a white 

 nut; ripe in October. 



The fruit is very small, and produced in great abundance. The husk, wliich 

 is thin, fleshy, and surmounted on its upper half by 4 appendages in the form 

 of wings, never becomes ligneous, like those of the other hickories, but softens 



; 1420. C. amiira. 



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j and decays. The shell is smooth, white, and thin enough to be broken with 

 the fingers ; the kernel is remarkable for the deep inequalities produced on 

 ' every side by its foldings. It is so harsh and bitter, that squirrels and other 

 aainials will not feed upon it while any other nut is to be found. 



ti .3. C. aqua'tica Nutt. The aquatic Carya, or Water Bitter-nut Hickory. 

 Uentificalion. Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. PI., 2. p. 222. 

 j Si/iwnyme. Juglans aquatica Alichx. Arb. 1. p. 182. 

 Engravings. Michx. North Amer. Sylva, t. 34. ; and our figs. 1421. and 1422. 



^,Spec. Char., S)-c. Leaflets, in a leaf, 9 II ; narrowly lanceolate, serrate. 



I Very similar to the leaves of Persica vulgaris ilf;//. ; the lateral ones sessile. 



I Fruit peduncled, ovate, with 4 rather prominent ridges at the seams of the 

 husk. Nut broadly oval, angular, a little depressed at the sides, 'oughish, 

 { reddish. (Michx.) A middle-sized deciduous tree. South Carolina to 

 I Georgia, in swamps and rice fields. Height 40 ft. to 50 ft. Introduced 

 in 1800. Flowers greenish ; April. Fruit, with a gi'een husk, enclosing a 

 ; reddish nut ; ripe in October. 



i The water bitter-nut hickory is a tree with rather slender branches. Its 

 :lea' es are 8 or 9 inches long, and of a l)eautiful green : they are composed of 4 

 jar o pairs of sessile leaflets, surmounted bv a petiolated odd one. The leaflets 



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