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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Si/nonynie. Jiiglans myristicaefonnis Michx. Arb. 1. p. 211. 



Eng7-ai<ings. Slichx. Arb., 1. t. 10.; North Anier. Sylvj, t. 39. ; and our^^. 1429. 



Spec. Char,, Sfc. 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 niyristicaeformis. 

 (Mich.v.) A large deciduous tree. 

 South Carolina. 



-wT T..1 1 Til" ^ 1429. C, myristicfiefdrmis. 



Very little is known ot this tree, 

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

 given to him by a gardener at Charleston. 



S 9. C. microca'rpa Nutt. The small-fruited Carya, oi- Hickory. 



Identification. Nutt. Gen. N. An-.er. PI., 2. p. 221. 



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



Spec. Char., c^-r. Leaflets, in a leaf, about 3; oblong-lanceolate, conspicuously 

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

 subpetiolate. Fruit subglo- 

 bose. Husk thin. Nut partly 

 (}uadrangular, 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 o. 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. (Xutfal/) 

 A large deciduous tree. Plii- 

 ladelj)hia, on the banks of the 

 Schuylkill. 



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1433. 



Other Species of Cdrj/a. C. anibigua (Juglans ambigua Michx.) is de- 

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

 have been introduced ; and C. rigida (J. rigida Lodd. Cat.) is in the Hackney 

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

 Spretig. (HicoriKs integrifolius Rafinesque) is probabh' an imaginary species. 

 From the circumstance of the species of Jiiglans and C^arya crossing so freelw 

 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 th(| 

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

 p. 733. res|)ecting a hybrid between Juglans regia and /. nigra would seem t( 

 justify these remarks. 





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