3*8 



THE FORESTER. 



December, 



Butternut. remain in obscurity until it was revived bv 



Juglans cinereal^. Sp. PL, ed. 2, 141 5 Britton in 1S8S. Through a mistake by 

 ( I 7^3)- Found sparingly in the south- Michaux (Flora Boreali-Americana, 2: 

 eastern part of the State from Gage to 193, 1S03) this was called by him Juglans 

 Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, and Cass coun- alba, but it was not the J. alba of Linne 

 ties. (See Map Xo. 4.) 

 Successfully planted some- 

 what outside of its natural 

 range. 



Walnut. 



Juglans nigra L. Sp. 

 PI. 997 (1753). Found 

 quite abundantly in the 

 southern, eastern, and 

 northern portions of the 

 State, from Harlan county, 

 Saline, and Lancaster to 

 Burt, Dixon, Knox, Rock, 

 and Cherry and eastward. 

 (See Map No. 4.) One of 

 the most generally planted 

 trees for timber. It is successfully grown 

 far outside its natural range 



MAP NO. 4. DOTTED SECTIONS SHOW THE DISTRIBUTION OF 

 WALNUT AND BUTTERNUT IN NEBRASKA. 



tions are promising soon to bring in good 

 returns of valuable timber. 



Shellbark Hickory. 

 Hicoria ovata (Mill.) Britton, Bulletiti 

 of the Tor rey Botanical Club, 15: 2S3 



Sp. PI. 997, 1753). Nuttall transferred 

 Some planta- this mistake, calling this tree Carya alba, 



the name bv which it has generally been 

 known. In Gray's Manual, even in the 

 latest edition, NuttalPs name is used. 

 Common in the southeastern counties 

 from Gasre to Cass. On account of the 

 high value of the timber which this species 



(1S8S). This was first called Juglans yields, as well as for its nuts, it should be 



planted much more gener- 

 ally than it has been hitherto. 



White Oak. 



^uercus alba L. Sp. PI. 



996 (1753)- Confined to 



the southeastern part of the 



State, and certainly known 



to occur in Douglas, Cass 



and Nemaha counties. (See 



map No. 5 ) Although 



its natural range is limited 



to a narrow belt along the 



Missouri River, there is 



no reason for doubting the 



possibility of successfully 



ovata by Miller in the Gardener's Diction- growing it far beyond this region. As its 



ary, edition 8 ( 1768) . In 1S0S Rafinesque wood is of such high value it would be 



separated the hickories generally from the advisable to plant freely of it especially in 



map no. 5. 



-SHOWING DISTRIBUTION OF BUR OAK, RED OAK, 

 AND WHITE OAK IN NEBRASKA. 



walnuts under the name Hicoria (by a 

 typographical error printed ''Scoria"), 

 but Nuttall, in ignorance of this, made a 

 genus with the same limitations, but with 

 the name Carya (Genera of North Ameri- 

 can Plants, 2: 220, 1S1S). Nuttall's 

 name was taken up by the botanists gene- 

 rally, that of Rafinesque being allowed to 



favorable situations, that is, on the richer 



and more moist lands of the eastern third 



of the State. 



Bur Oak. 



Quercus niacrocarpa Michaux, Histoire 

 des Chenes de l'Amerique, 2 (1S01). 

 The most widely distributed of our oaks, 

 occurring throughout the eastern half of 



