JUGLANDACEAE 

 Butternut 



Juglans cinerea, L. 



HABIT. A medium-sized tree 40-60 feet high, with a short 

 trunk 2-3 feet in diameter; forming a wide-spreading crown of 

 large, horizontal branches and stout, stiff branchlets. 



LEAVES. Alternate, compound, 15-30 inches long. Leaflets 

 11-17, 2-4 inches long and one-half as broad; sessile, except the 

 terminal ; oblong-lanceolate ; finely serrate ; thin ; yellow-green 

 and rugose above, pale and soft-pubescent beneath. Petioles 

 stout, hairy. 



FLOWERS. May, with the leaves ; monoecious ; the stamin- 

 ate in cylindrical, greenish, drooping catkins 3-5 inches long; 

 calyx 6-lobed, borne on a hairy bract; corolla o; stamens 8-12, 

 with brown anthers ; the pistillate solitary or several on a com- 

 mon peduncle, about V^ inch long, their bracts and bractlets 

 sticky-hairy; calyx 4-lobed, hairy; corolla o; styles 2; stigmas 2, 

 fringed, spreading, bright red. 



FRUIT. October ; about 2 l / 2 inches long, cylindrical, pointed, 

 greenish, sticky-downy, solitary or borne in drooping clusters of 

 3-5 : nuts with rough shells, inclosing a sweet, but oily kernel ; 

 edible. 



WINTER-BUDS. Terminal bud Vz-^A inch Jong, oblong- 

 conical, obliquely blunt, somewhat flattened, brownish, pubescent. 



BARK. Twigs orange-brown or bright green, rusty-pube- 

 scent, becoming smooth and light gray; gray and smoothish on 

 young trunks, becoming brown on old trunks, narrow-ridged, with 

 wide furrows. 



WOOD. Light, soft, weak, coarse-grained, light brown, with 

 thin, lighter colored sapwood. 



DISTRIBUTION. Of common occurrence in the southern 

 half of the Lower Peninsula. 



HABITAT. Prefers low, rich woods ; river-banks ; low hill- 

 sides. 



NOTES. Leaves appear late and fall early. Pith chambered, 

 chocolate-brown. Large trees usually unsound. Not easily trans- 

 planted. 



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