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Savannah River, Calhoun Falls, Abbeville County, South Carolina, bottom of Little 

 River, Walker County, Georgia, Chattanooga Creek, Hamilton County, Tennessee, 

 Valley Head, DeKalb County, Alabama, and Columbus, Lowndes County, Starkville, 

 Oktibbeha County, and Brookville, Noxubee County, Mississippi. More distinct is 



Carya ovata var. fraxinifolia Sarg. 



Leaves 7'-9' long, with slender glabrous or puberulous petioles and 5 lanceolate to 

 slightly oblanceolate acuminate finely serrate leaflets glabrous except on the under side of 

 the midrib, the terminal leaflet 4 / -7 / long and 1|'-1' wide, the lateral sessile, unsymmetri- 



Fig. 175 



cal at base, those of the upper pair often larger than the terminal leaflet, those of the lower 

 pair 2'-2|' long and l'-l|' wide. Flowers as in the species. Fruit obovoid, usually 

 rounded at apex, compressed, about If long, the husk splitting freely to the base, '-' 

 in thickness; nut much compressed, rounded at the ends, prominently angled. 



A large tree with bark separating in long loose plates, and slender reddish glabrous or 

 puberulous branchlets. 



Distribution. Near Rochester, Munroe County, New York; common; near Kingston, 

 Ontario, and westward through Ohio and Indiana; at Keosauqua, Van Buren County, 

 Iowa, and near Myers, Osage County, Oklahoma. 



7. Carya carolinae-septentrionalis Schn. Shagbark Hickory. 



Leaves 4 '-8' long, with slender glabrous petioles, and usually 5 but occasionally 3 lanceo- 

 late long-pointed leaflets gradually narrowed at the acuminate symmetrical or unsymmetri- 

 cal base, coarsely serrate, ciliate with long white hairs as the leaves unfold, thin, dark green 

 above, pale yellow-green and lustrous below, the upper leaflets 3'-4' long, I'-l^' wide, and 

 about twice as large as those of the lower pair, turning dull brown or yellow-brown some 

 time before falling. Flowers: staminate in slightly villose aments, glandular-hirsute on 

 the outer surface, with linear elongated acuminate villose bracts; stamens 4; anthers 

 puberulous; pistillate usually in 2-flowered spikes, oblong and covered with clustered golden 

 hairs, their bract linear and ciliate on the margins. Fruit broader than high, or short- 

 oblong, slightly depressed at apex, f '-If wide, dark red-brown, roughened by small pale 

 lenticels, the husk f'-f' thick, splitting freely almost to the base; nut ovoid, compressed, 

 prominently 4-angled, acute at ends, nearly white or pale brown, with a thin shell; seed 

 light brown, sweet. 



A tree, on moist bottom-lands sometimes 80 tall, with a trunk 2-3 in diameter, and 



