HICORIA 



HICORIA 



747 



..ud laciniosa, for which see Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 7, pi. 



; :0-23 and Gng. 2:226. See Pecan. 



myristicEef6rmis, Britt. (Gary a myristiccefdrmis, 

 lutt.). NUTMEG-HICKORY. Tree, to 100 ft. with dark 

 rown bark, broken into appressed scales : Ifts. 5-11, 



; hort- stalked or almost sessile, ovate-lanceolate, the 

 ippermost much larger and obovate, serrate, scurfy-pu- 

 .escent beneath when young and with brown scales 

 ;.bove. at length dark green above, silvery and lustrous 

 ieneath, 3-5 in. long: staminate catkins peduncled: fr. 



Venerally solitary, short-ovoid or obovate, about 1% in. 



;ong: niit ovoid, reddish brown marked with irregular 

 pots and stripes, thick-shelled, 4-celled below; kernel 



.weet. From S. Car. to Ark. and Mex. S.S. 7:342-43. 



\ very decorative species on account of its handsome 



'oliage, but not hardy North. 



JB. Nut usually as broad as long, compressed with 

 irregularly angled or reticulate surface, thin- 

 shelled, 4-celled below : kernel bitter. 



aquatica, Britt. (Gary a aquatica, Nutt.). WATER- 

 iIiCKORY. BITTER PECAN. Usually small tree, rarely to 

 00 ft., with light brown bark separating into long, thin 

 >lates. Ifts 7-13, sessile or short-stalked, lanceolate, 

 ,ong-acuminate, finely serrate, yellowish tomentose when 

 'oung, glabrous at length, fr. 3-4, ovoid to broadly obo- 

 /ate, 1-1% in. long; husk thin, splitting to the base; 

 mt obovate, much compressed, irregularly angled and 

 idged, dull reddish brown; kernel very bitter. From 

 7a. to 111., south to Fla. and Tex. S.S. 7:344-45. 

 J.S.N.C. 12, 7-8. 



minima, Britt. (Carya amdra, Nutt.). BITTER NUT. 

 5WAMP-HICKORY. Tree, to 100 ft. : bark grayish brown, 

 >roken into thin scales: young branches and petioles 

 jlabrous: Ifts. 5-9, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate-acumi- 

 mte, densely serrate, pubescent when young and glan- 

 lular, almost glabrous at length, 3-6 in. long : fr. 2-3, 

 jroadly obovate or subglobose, winged from the apex to 

 ;he middle, %-!% in. long ; husk thin, splitting some- 

 what below the middle; nut slightly compressed, round- 

 sh, abruptly contracted into a short point, irregularly 



1062. Characteristic growth of the Pignut Hickory. 

 Hicoria glabra. 



reticulate ; kernel bitter. Quebec to Minn., south to 

 Fla. and Tex. S.S. 7:340-41. Em. 226. A valuable 

 park tree, with handsome, rather broad head, growing 

 in cult, more rapidly than other Hickories. 



1063. Hicoria glabra, var. microcarpa the false Shagbark. 



AA. Scales of buds imbricate, more than 6 : fr. not or 



slightly winged at the sutures : nut usually 



thick-shelled, 4-celled below: Ifts. S-9, not fal 



cate, the uppermost larger and generally obovate. 



B. Buds small, %-%in. long: husJe thin: nut slightly 



or not angled. 



glabra, Britt. (Caryaporclna, Nutt.). PIGNUT. Figs. 

 1061, 1062. Tree, occasionally to 120 ft., with usually 

 dark gray fissured bark and slender, glabrous branch- 

 lets : Ifts. 3-7, almost sessile, oblong to oblong-lanceo- 

 late, long-acuminate, sharply serrate, almost glabrous, 

 3-6 in. long: fr. usually ovoid or obovate, the sutures 

 usually slightly winged toward the apex and the husk 

 splitting mostly only half way to the base; nut usually 

 brownish, not angled ; kernel mostly astringent. S.S. 

 7:352-53. A.G. 11:386-7. U.S.N.C. 12, 5.-A very hand- 

 some park tree, with rather narrow-oblong 

 head and slender, often pendulous branch- 

 lets, especially in the following var. A very 

 variable tree, and the following varieties 

 are considered by some botanists as dis- 

 tinct species. 



Var. microcarpa, Trel. (Carya micro- 

 cdrpa, Nutt.). Figs. 1063-6. Bark more 

 or less shaggy: Ifts. quite glabrous, often 

 somewhat broader: fr. subglobose ; husk 

 splitting nearly to 

 the base; nut grayish 

 or whitish, angled, 

 rather thin - shelled, 

 often broader than 

 long ; kernel sweet. 

 From Quebec to 

 Mich., south to Fla. 

 A.G. 11:381-88, 1, 2, 

 5, 8, 10. U.S.N.C. 12, 

 4, 6. Of ten very dis- 

 tinct. Probably H. 

 borealis, Ashe, be- 

 longs to this variety. 



Var. odorata, Sarg. 1064< Fruitof H . glabra, 106 s. Twig of 

 feimilar to ana orten var. microcarpa, Hicoria glabra* 



united with the for- the false Shagbark. " V ar. 

 mer. Bark fissured, Natural size. microcarpa. 



