180 JUGLANDACEyE. Juglans. 



A tree 30 - 60 feet high, with a trunk 1-2 feet or more in diameter (in the Western 

 States the younger Michaux found it from 3 to 6 or 7 feet in diameter) ; when growing alone, 

 forming a large spreading head ; the bark thick and blackish. Leaves a foot or more in 

 length ; the leaflets in 6 - 9 pairs with an odd leaflet, 2-4 inches long, on short partial 

 footstalks, serrate. Sterile aments pendulous, cylindrical ; the flowers at length rather distant. 

 Scales or bracts ovate, acute, hairy. Calyx orbicular, unequally and obtusely 5 -cleft. 

 Stamens 30 - 40 : filaments very short : anthers oblong ; the cells distinct. Fertile flowers 

 2-4 together at the extremity of the branches. Ovary cylindrical-ovate, crowned with the 

 small 4-toothed limb of the calyx and the 4 petals : stigmas 2, nearly sessile, large, diverging, 

 somewhat clavate, lacerately fringed on the upper surface. Drupe about 2 inches in diameter, 

 sometimes a little ovoid, greenish yellow when ripe, spongy, decaying without splitting into 

 valves ; tlie nut sulcate, with irregular obtuse ridges. 



Rich woodlands ; rare above the Highlands, and in the northwestern parts of the State ; 

 occasionally found in the southwestern counties. Fl. May. Fr. October. The heart-wood 

 is of a purplish brown color when fresh, but becomes blackish with age. It is much esteemed 

 for cabinet work. The immature fruit ^mits a strong resinous odor when bruised. The ripe 

 kernel is sweet and wholesome. 



According to Loudon, there is in the gardens of the Trianon at Versailles, a hybrid between 

 this species and Juglans j-egia, which partakes in an equal degree of the properties of both, 

 and has ripened fruit from which young plants have been raised possessed of similar charac- 

 ters. A very large tree of this kind existed until lately on the grounds of Clement Moore, 

 Esq., on the Island of New-York. Nuts taken from it produced thrifty plants in Prince's 

 garden at Flushing. This tree was first observed bj' Major J. Le Conte, and is noticed in my 

 catalogue of New-York plants (1819) as Juglans hjhrida. 



2. Juglans cinerea, Linn. Butternut. White Walnut. 



Leaflets oblong-lanceolate, rounded at the base, softly pubescent underneath , tlie petioles 

 villous ; drupe ovoid-oblong, pubescent and viscid ; nut elliptical-oblong, acuminate, deeply 

 sculptured and rough. — Linn. sp. (ed. 2.) 2. p. 1415 ; Micli.x. fl. 2. j)- 191 ; Pursli, fl. 2. 

 p. 636 ; Ell. sk. 2. p. 623 ; Bigcl. med. hot. t. 32, and fl. Bost. p. 352 ; Torr. compend. 

 p. 357 ; Beck, hot, p. 335; Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 543. J. cathartica, Michx. fl. sylv. t. 31. 



A tree 20 - 40 feet high and 1-2 feet in diameter ; the branches covered wiili a smoothish 

 gray bark. Leaflets in 7 - 8 joairs with an odd one, about 3 inches long, acuminate, serrate ; 

 common petiole 12-15 inches long. Sterile flowers pendulous from the last year's shoots, 

 3-5 inches long. Calyx oblong, deeply 3-cleft. Stamens 8 - 10 ; the anthers oblong, nearly 

 sessile. Fertile flowers 3 — 7 in a short terminal spike, sessile. Limb of the calyx obscurely 

 4-toothed. Petals 4, narrowly lanceolate. Ovary sessile, viscidly pubescent : style short : 

 stigmas 2, rose -colored, large, elongated, pubescent and fimbriate. Fruit sessile on an 

 elongated common peduncle 2-3 inches long, at first green, but brown when ripe, very viscid. 



