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first season, becoming dark gray-brown. Winter-buds ovoid, acute, glabrous, up to \' 



in length, the inner scales puberulous. Bark close, only slightly ridged, light or dark gray. 



Distribution. Rochester, Munroe County. New York, through southern Ohio and 



Indiana to southern Illinois (Tunnel Hill, Johnson County); coast of New Jersey; District 



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of Columbia and southward to the shores of Indian River and the valley of the Callusa- 

 hatchie River, Florida, and through southern Alabama to western Louisiana; one of the 

 commonest Hickories in the coast region of the south Atlantic and east Gulf states, occa- 

 sionally ranging inland to central and northern Georgia and western Mississippi. 



13. Carya ovalis Sarg. 



Leaves 6'-10' long, with slender petioles often scurfy-pubescent early in the season, 

 soon glabrous, and 7 or rarely 5 lanceolate to oblanceolate, or occasionally obovate finely 

 serrate leaflets, long-pointed and acuminate or rarely rounded at apex, cuneate and un- 

 symmetrical at base, early in the season often scurfy-pubescent and furnished below with 

 small axillary tufts of pale hairs, soon glabrous, the upper 6' or 7' long and l'-2' wide, and 

 raised, on a stalk \'-\' in length, the lateral sessile, those of the upper pah's as large or 

 slightly smaller than the terminal leaflet. Flowers: staminate in puberulous aments 6'-7' 

 long, pubescent, their bracts twice longer than the ovate acute calyx-lobes; stamens 4, an- 

 thers yellow, thickly covered with pale hairs; pistillate in 1 or 2-flowered spikes, obovoid, 

 more or less thickly covered with yellow scales. Fruit ellipsoidal, acute or rounded at apex, 

 rounded at base, puberulous, \'-\\' long, about f ' in diameter, with a husk T y- T V m thick- 

 ness, splitting freely to the base; nut pale, oblong, slightly flattened, rounded at base, acute 

 or acuminate and 4-angled at apex, the ridges extending for one-third or rarely for one- 

 half of its length, with a shell rarely more than ' in thickness; seed small and sweet. 



A tree sometimes 100 high, with a tall trunk occasionally 3 in diameter, small spread- 

 ing branches forming a narrow often pyramidal head, and slender lustrous red-brown 

 branchlets marked by pale lenticels, often slightly pubescent when they first appear, soon 

 glabrous. Winter-buds ovoid, obtuse, acute or acuminate; the terminal often \' long and 

 twice as large as the lateral, the outer scales red-brown, lustrous and glabrous, the inner cov- 

 ered with close pale tomentum. Bark slightly ridged, pale gray, usually separating freely 

 into small plate-like scales, or occasionally close. Wood heavy, hard and tough, flexible, 

 light or dark brown, with thick lighter-colored sap wood; used for the handles of tools, in the 

 manufacture of wagons and agricultural implements, and largely for fuel. 



