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TIMBER TREES OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



The wood is heavy, soft, strong, rather brittle, veiy close- 

 grained, and compact ; the heartwood, dark brown ; the sapwood 

 lighter, often nearly white. The timber is of an inferior quality, 

 and is chiefly used for fencing and fuel. It ;s rare in North Caro- 

 lina, and, from the diflicnlty in getting it out of the swamps, it is 

 little used. 



Hicoria ovata, Britton. 



' (SHAG-HARK HICKORY. SHELL-KARK HICKORY. 



SCALY-BARK FlICKORY.) 



A large tree of great commercial value, with pendulous Ijrunches, 

 and grayish-brown bark separating from the trunk iti long strips. 

 It reaches a height of 150 and a diameter of -I feet. 



It occurs on rich hillsides and on sandjj ridges from the valley 

 of the St. Lawrence river to Michigan and southeastern Min- 

 nesota, southward to western Florida, central x\labama and 

 Mississippi, and westward to eastern Kansas, Indian Ter- 

 ritory, and eastern Texas; reaL-hing its best development west of 

 the Alleghany mountains. A common tree. 



In this State, where it attains an average height of 6n to SO 

 feet and an average diameter of 15 to 20 in<jhes, it occurs 

 throughout but is nowhere common, and least so in the coastal 

 plain region. (Fig. 16.) 



* Carva alba. Nuttall. 



