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Distribution. Southern New England to southern Wisconsin, southwestern Missouri, 

 western North Carolina, central and eastern Georgia, eastern Mississippi and centra) 

 Alabama; the common and most widely distributed northern variety of Gary a ovalis; com- 

 mon in the mountain districts of central Alabama; varying to the f. vestita Sarg. with 

 stouter branchlets covered during their first year with rusty tomentum and more or less 

 pubescent in their second and third seasons, leaflets slightly pubescent below, and with 

 more compressed nuts and puberulous w r inter-buds. A single tree near Davis Pond, Knox 

 County, Indiana. 



Carya ovalis var. odorata Sarg. 



Carya microcarpa Darling, in part. 

 Hicoria microcarpa Britt. in part. 

 Hicoria glabra var. odorata Sarg. in part. 



Fruit subglobose or slightly longer than broad, much flattened, '-f ' in diameter, with a 

 husk not more than 2 y in thickness, splitting freely to the base by sutures sometimes f ur- 



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Fig. 185 



nished with narrow wings; nut compressed, rounded at apex, rounded or acute at base, 

 slightly or nor at all ridged, pale or nearly white, with a shell T V or less in thickness. 



Distribution. Southern New England, eastern Pennsylvania and the District of Colum- 

 bia to western New York, and southeastern Ontario, and through Ohio and Indiana to 

 southern Illinois; near Atlanta, Georgia, and Starkville, Oktibbaha County, Mississippi; 

 less variable in the size and shape of the fruit than the other varieties of C. ovalis. 



Carya ovalis var. obovalis Sarg. 



Hicoria glabra Sarg. in part. 



Fruit more or less obovoid, about 1' long and f ' in diameter, with a husk T y-f thick, 

 splitting freely to the base. (Fig. 186.) 



Distribution. Southern New England to Missouri and northern Arkansas; on the 

 mountains of North Carolina, on the coast of Georgia and in north central Alabama. The 

 common " Pignut " in the middle western states, varying to f. acuta Sarg. with nuts 

 pointed at the ends and closer bark; only near Rochester, Munroe County, New York. 



Other forms of C. ovalis are var. hirsuta Sarg. (Hicoria glabra hirsuta Ashe) with obovoid 

 compressed fruit narrowed into a stipitate base, with a husk |' |' in thickness, scaly 

 bark, pubescent winter-buds, leaves with pubescent petioles and leaflets pubescent on 

 the lower surface; a common tree on the mountains of North Carolina up to altitudes of 

 2000 above the sea; and var. borealis Sarg. (Hicoria borealift Ashe) with pubescent branch- 



