A. sterile flowers li. l-"ertilc iI.im r 



THE PIGNUT {Hicoru, :-L,h-.,) 

 The tree is draped with green fringe— the staminate catkins— in Mav. The first li 

 Later ones have seven, rarely nine. They are smooth and turn yellow in autumn. The Inid 

 :he outer scales arc shed ^jrly in winter. The hark is furrowed and grav. This twi^ has i 



vcs usuallv have hut five K-artets. 

 arc plump, and small for a hickory; 

 ) pistillate flowers 



