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APPENDIX. 



[Vol. III. 



[Vol. i: p. 486.] 



6a. Hicoria villosa (Sarg.) Ashe. Scurfy Hickory. 

 Woolly Pignut. (Fig. 1156a.) 



H. glabra var. villosa Sarg. Sylva, r j: 167. 1895. 

 Hicoria pallida Ashe, Notes on Hickories. In 



part. 1896. 

 H. villosa Ashe, Bull. Torr. Club, 24: 11, 530. 1897. 



A small or medium sized tree reaching a max- 

 imum height of about 8o, and a diameter of 2, 

 with deeply furrowed dark gray bark. Buds 

 of 6-8 imbricated scales, the outer usually thickly 

 dotted -with resinous globules, the inner some- 

 what enlarging in leafing; terminal bud ovate, 

 X / long, lateral buds mostly short-stifed ' ; stam- 

 inate aments pubescent, and gland and scurf 

 covered, peduncled in 3's at base of shoots of the 

 season; twigs slender, ]/(/ thick or less, usually 

 glabrous, bright pur pie-brown ; petiole pubes- 

 cent; leaflets 5-9, at first thickly covered betteath 

 ivith silvery peltate glands, mixed ivith resinous 

 globules, generally pubescent; fruit about i / 

 long, obovoid or subglobose, the husk dotted 

 ivith resinous globules, y$ / thick and partly 

 splitting; nut brown, thick-shelled, angled; seed 

 small, but sweet. 



Poor sandy or rocky soils, Delaware to Georgia 

 (according to Ashe), west to Missouri. Wood hard, 

 strong, dark brown; weight per cubic foot 50 lbs. 

 Hicoria villosa pallida Ashe. 

 Hicoria pallida Ashe, Notes on Hickories. In part. 1896. 



Less pubescent; fruit ovoid, flattened laterally ; husk thin, splitting to the base ; nut light 

 brown, not angled. Virginia to Georgia. 



[Vol. 1: p. 487] after Hicoria glabra add Hicoria glabra hirsuta Ashe, Notes on Hickories. 1896. 

 Similar to type, but leaves larger, pubescent beneath, thinner, generally destitute of resinous 

 globules on the lower surface; fruit larger. Virginia to Georgia, along and near the mountains. 



[Vol. 1: p. 486.] 6b. Hicoria borealis Ashe 



(Fig. 1156b.) 



Hicoria borealis Ashe, Notes on Hickories. 1896. 



A small tree, with rough furrowed bark when 

 young, becoming shaggy in long narrow strips with 

 age. Bud-scales 8-10, imbricated, the inner bright- 

 colored and sericeous, enlarging in leafing and 

 tardily deciduous; terminal bud ovate-lanceolate, 

 Y^ long; twigs very slender, )s / thick, glabrous, 

 bright brownish red ; staminate aments in 3's at 

 base of shoots of season; middle lobe of staminate 

 calyx much prolonged ; young foliage blackening 

 in drying, pubescent when young, becoming smooth, 

 ciliate, with few resinous globules on lower surface', 

 leaflets 5, occasionally 3, lanceolate, the upper )'- 



Northern Hickory. 



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wide, 



>%'- 



long; lower pair often smaller; 



fruit ovoid, much fattened, fy f or more long; husk 



very thin, rugose, coriaceous, usually not splitting; 



nut white, somewhat angled; shell thin and elastic ; 



seed large, sweet and edible. 



A small tree of dry uplands, growing with oaks and 

 Hicoria microcarpa. Southern and eastern Michigan, 

 east to Belle Isle, Detroit river. Probably also in 

 southern Ontario. 



[Vol. 1: p. 537.] 2a. NESTRONIA Raf. New Flora, 3: 12. 1836. 

 [Darbya A. Gray, Am. Journ. Sci. (II) 1: 3S8. 1846.] 

 A low glabrous dioecious shrub, with opposite short-petioled, oblong to ovate entire leaves. 

 Staminate flowers small, in axillary peduncled umbels; calyx top-shaped, 4-5-cleft, the lobes 

 spreading, each with a tuft of wool; stamens as many as the calyx-segments and opposite 

 them; disk crenate. Pistillate flowers solitary in the axils, short-peduncled; calyx narrowly 

 top-shaped, 4-lobed; stamens 4; style short, 4-lobed; ovary adnate to the calyx. Fruit an 

 oval i-seeded drupe. [From the Greek name of Daphne.] 

 A monotypic genus of the southeastern United States. 



