JUGLANDACE^E 



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A curious seminal variety (var. quercina Babcock) with compound leaves composed of 

 3 oval leaflets, the terminal long-stalked and 2 or 3 times larger than the lateral leaflets, 

 is occasionally cultivated in California. 



6. Juglans Hindsii Rehxl. 

 Juglans californica S. Wats., in part. 

 Juglans californica var. Hindsii Jep. 



Leaves 9'-12' long, with slender villose pubescent petioles and rachis, and 15-19, usually 

 19, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate long-pointed often slightly falcate leaflets, serrate with 

 remote teeth except toward the usually rounded cuneate or rarely cordate base, thin, 

 puberulous above while young, becoming bright green, lustrous and glabrous on the upper 



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surface, below furnished with conspicuous tufts of pale hairs, and villose-pubescent along 

 the midrib and primary veins, 2'-4' long and f '-!' wide. Flowers : staminate in slender 

 glabrous or sparingly villose aments 3'-5' long; calyx elongated, coated like its bract with 

 scurfy pubescence, divided into 5 or 6 acute lobes; stamens 30-40, with short connectives 

 bifid at apex; ovary of the pistillate flower oblong-ovoid, thickly covered with villose pubes- 

 cence, f ' long, the border of the thin bract and bractlets much shorter than the calyx-lobes; 

 stigma yellow. Fruit globose, lj'-2' in diameter, with a thin dark-colored husk covered 

 with short soft pubescence; nut nearly globose, somewhat flattened at the ends, faintly 

 grooved with remote longitudinal depressions, thick shelled; seed small and sweet. 



A tree usually 30-40, occasionally 75 high, with a tall trunk l-2 in diameter, stout 

 pendulous branches forming a narrow round-topped head, and comparatively slender 

 branchlets thickly coated when they first appear with villose pubescence, reddish brown and 

 puberulous, and marked by pale lenticels and small elevated obscurely 3-lobed leaf scars 

 during their first winter, becoming darker and nearly glabrous in their second year. Win- 

 ter-buds coated with hoary tomentum; terminal acute, compressed, more or less enlarged 

 at apex, %'~ l n g' axillary usually solitary, nearly globose, about T y in diameter. Bark 

 gray-brown, smoothish, longitudinally fissured into narrow plates. Wood heavy, hard, 

 rather coarse-grained, dark brown often mottled, with thick pale sapwood of from 8 to 

 10 layers of annual growth. 



