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Fig. 186 



lets and winter-buds, leaves pubescent early in the season, ellipsoidal or ovoid flattened 

 fruit with a husk $'-' in thickness, an ovoid nut ridged to the base, and scaly bark; only 

 in southeastern Michigan. 



14. Carya floridana Sarg. 



Leaves 6'-8' long, with slender petioles rusty pubescent when they first appear, soon 

 glabrous, with 5 or rarely 7 lanceolate to oblanceolate leaflets long-pointed and acuminate 

 at apex, unsymmetrical and rounded or cuneate at base, serrate with remote cartilaginous 

 teeth, sessile or the terminal leaflet short-stalked, covered when they unfold with rufous 



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Fig. 187 



pubescence, soon glabrous, at maturity thin, conspicuously reticulate-venulose, yellow- 

 green above, often brownish below, the upper three 3^'-4' long, 1/-2' wide, and about twice 

 larger than those of the lowest pair. Flowers: staminate in long-stalked scurfy pubescent 

 aments l'-l' in length, produced at the base of branchlets of the year from the axils of 



