CHAP. Cll. ./rm.ANDA'CK/K. C'A'HYA. 



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seams, which, at complete maturity, open throughout their whole length for 

 the escape of the nut. The shell is thick, and of a yellowish hue ; while that 

 of the C. alba is white. The wood is of the same quality as that of C. alba : 

 it is brought to market in Philadelphia, but only in very small quantities. 

 The Gloucester hickory, Michaux considers to be a variety of this species ; 

 and he also mentions another, growing in the gardens of the Petit Trianon, 

 and to which he thinks the specific name of ambigua might be given ; as he is 

 doubtful whether it is a variety or a species. In the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden, and in the collection at Messrs. Loddiges's, and at White Knights, 

 there are plants marked Carya sulcata, or ,/uglans laciniosa, which are dis- 

 tinguishable from all the other species of Carya, by their very large leaf- 

 lets, which, in autumn, die off sooner than those of any of the other sorts. 

 Nuts of this species are, in London, 1*. Qd. a quart. 



7. C. PORCI'NA Nutt. The Pig-nut Carya, or Hickory. 



Identification. Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. PI., 2. p. 222. 



Synonywes. JClglans porclna obcordata Michx. Arb., 1. p. 206., Pursh Ft. Amer. Sept, 2. p. 638., 



Wats. Dcnd. Brit., t. lt>7. ; J. porcina var. with fruit round, and somewhat rough, Michx.North 



Amer. Sylva, 1. p. 196. ; J. obcord&ta Miihlcnb. in Nov. Act. Soc. Nat. Scrut. Berol., 3. p. 392., 



WUld. Sp. PI., 4. p. 458. j Pig-nut, Hog-nut, Broom Hickory. 

 Engravings. Michx. Arb., 1. 1. 9. f. 3, 4. ; North Amer. Sylva, 1. t. 38. f. 3, 4. ; Wats. Dend. Brit , 



t. 167. ; and our figs. 1272, 1273, and 1274. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaflets, o 7 in a leaf, ovate-acuminate, serrate, glabrous, 

 dotted beneath with dots of resinous matter ; terminal leaflet sessile. Nut 

 obcordate. (Wittd. Sp. PI.) Fruit round, somewhat rough. (Midi*. 

 N. A. S.) See our/g. 1272. a, and Jig. 1274. a. 



Variety 



6. C. p. 2 gldbra ; Juglans porcina /3 fici- 

 formis Mir/u. Arb., i. p. 209., Pursh 

 F/. Amer. Sept., ii. p. 638. ; J. glabra 

 Miihl. in Nov. Act. Soc. Nat., &c., iii. 

 p. 391., WUld. Sp. PI., iv. p. 458.; 

 and our figs. 1272. b, and 1274. i; 

 has the husk of the fruit shaped like 

 a small fig, instead of being round, 

 like the species. Pursh observes of 

 this variety, that the inhabitants 

 from New England to Virginia make 

 brooms of it, by slitting the very 

 tough wood into narrow slips, which 



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