JUGLANDACE^) WALNUT FAMILY 



Carya alba, (L.) K. Kock. 



June White-heart Hickory, 



Mocker-nut, 

 Fragrant Hickory. 



Carya: ancient Greek name of the walnut. 

 Alba: Latin for white. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: thickets. 



THE TREE: erect, six feet to fifteen feet high; the trunk 

 stout; the bark rough, but close; the twigs hairy, fragrant 

 when crushed. 



THE LEAVES: alternate; pinnately compound, the leaflets 

 seven to nine, oblong-lanceolate, with short, more or less 

 matted hairs, acuminate at the apex; sessile; fragrant 

 when crushed. 



THE FLOWERS: of two kinds, in catkins; the staminate 

 catkins covered with matted wool, peduncled. 



THE FRUIT: a nut, enclosed in a thick shell, greyish- white, 

 angled, pointed at the top. 



A noble and symmetrical tree, thickly clothed with 

 handsome and compound leaves the father, so to speak, 

 of the thicket, that so densely surrounds it. 



Two other members cf the Walnut Family have been 

 reported. 



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