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10. The flowers of the Bitternut, or Swamp Hickory. 



Sterile flowers in clustered catkins; fertile flowers two 

 to five on a terminal shoot ; stigmas green, maturing before 

 the staminate flowers open. 



FlG. 33. BlTTERNUT, OR SWAMP HlCKORY. 



a, staminate flowers ; 6, pistillate flowers ; c, twig with fruit and leaf. 

 All reduced. 



