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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



4'-4^' long; bract of the flower ovate, lanceolate, ciliate on the margins with long white 

 hairs mixed with stipitate glands, a third longer than the ciliate calyx-lobes; stamens 4, 

 anthers red, covered with long rigid white hairs; pistillate in short spikes, then- involucre 

 and bracts densely clothed with white hairs. Fruit broadly obovoid, smooth, glabrous or 

 puberulous, covered with scattered white scales, l^'-lf-' long, about \\' in diameter, the 

 husk I' to nearly ' thick, opening freely to the base usually only by two sutures; nut el- 

 lipsoidal or slightly obovoid, little compressed, rounded at the ends, tinged with red, with 

 a shell '-' thick; seed small and sweet. 



A tree 60-75 tall with a trunk occasionally 3 in diameter, stout often pendulous 

 branches forming a narrow round-topped head, and slender reddish brown lustrous branch- 

 lets puberulous or pubescent when they first appear, becoming glabrous or nearly gla- 

 brous by the end of their first season. Winter-buds : terminal acute, about \' long, the 

 outer scales pubescent, the inner covered with appressed pale hairs and ciliate on the 

 margins: axillary buds ovoid and rounded at apex or subglobose. Bark close, pale, only 

 slightly, ridged. 



Distribution. Low wet woods; Louisiana to southern Arkansas, and in northwestern 

 Mississippi (bluffs, Yazoo County) ; most abundant in western Louisiana from the neighbor- 

 hood of the coast to the valley of Red River, and in Tangipahoa Parish east of the Missis- 

 sippi River. 



Passing into var. callicoma Sarg., differing in the thinner husk of the fruit and hi the 

 bright red color of the unfolding leaves. 



Distribution. Low wet woods; valley of the Calcasieu River (near Lake Charles), west- 

 ern Louisiana to that of the Neches River (near Beaumont), Texas; in western and 

 southern Mississippi (Warren, Adams, Hinds, Lafayette, Copiah, Lowndes and Oktibbeha 

 Counties). 



11. Carya pallida Ashe. 



Leaves 7'-15' long, with slender petioles and rachis covered, like the under side of the mid- 

 rib, with prominent persistent clusters of fascicled hairs mixed with silvery scales, and 



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usually 7, rarely 9, lanceolate or oblanceolate leaflets, the terminal rarely obovate, finely 

 serrate, resinous, fragrant, acuminate and long-pointed at apex, cuneate or rounded and 

 often unsymmetrical at base, covered in spring with small silvery peltate scales, and at ma- 

 turity light green and lustrous above, pale and pubescent or puberulous below, the terminal 

 short-stalked or nearly sessile, 4 '-6' long and l'-2' wide, and as large or slightly larger 

 than the upper lateral leaflets, those of the lower pairs usually not more than 2' long and 



