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bud-scales, and often of leaves, scurfy pubescent, their bract ovate, acuminate, a third 

 longer than the calyx-lobes; stamens 4 or 5, anthers yellow, slightly villose near the apex; 

 pistillate in 1 or 2-flowered spikes, obovoid, thickly covered, like their bracts, with yellow 

 scales. Fruit obovoid, gradually narrowed, rounded and sometimes slightly depressed at 

 apex, narrowed below into a short stipe-like base, occasionally slightly winged at the sutures, 

 often roughened by prominent reticulate ridges, puberulous and covered with small yellow 

 scales, f '-1|' long, f '-!' in diameter with a husk yV~i' thick, splitting freely to the base 

 by 2 or 3 sutures; nut pale or reddish, subglobose, not more than f ' in diameter, or ovoid 

 or rarely oblong, acute at base, narrowed and rounded at apex, slightly compressed, with 

 a shell jV"?' m thickness. 



A tree 50-70 high with a trunk up to 20' in diameter, slender spreading branches form- 

 ing a broad head, and slender branchlets at first coated with rufous pubescence, soon puber- 

 ulous or glabrous, bright red-brown and marked by pale lenticels during their first winter; 

 or in dry sand often a shrub producing abundant fruit on stems 3 or 4 high. Winter- 

 buds ovoid, acute or obtuse, the outer scales covered with thick rusty pubescence and more 

 or less thickly with yellow or rarely silvery scales, the inner coated with pale pubescence; 

 the terminal 1'-%' in length and twice as large as the axillary buds. Bark slightly ridged, 

 close dark gray-brown. Wood dark brown, with pale sapwood; probably used only for fuel. 



Distribution. Dry sandy ridges and low hills, Florida; east coast, Volusia County to 

 Jupiter Island, Palm Beach County; in the interior of the peninsula as a shrub, from 

 Orange to De Soto Counties, and on the shores of Pensacola Bay. 



15. Carya Buckleyi Durand. 

 Carya texana Buckl., not Le Conte 



Leaves 8'-12' long, with slender petioles rusty pubescent and sparingly villose early in 

 the season, and 5-7, usually 7, lanceolate to oblanceolate acuminate bluntly serrate sessile 



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leaflets, the terminal occasionally broadly obovate and abruptly pointed, and sometimes 

 raised on a winged stalk $'5' in length, when they unfold thickly covered with rusty pubes- 

 cence mixed with small white scales and villose on the lower side of the midrib and veins, 



