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TREES GROWING NEAR VVA I'ER. 



WATER HICKORY. SWAMP HICKORY. 

 PECAN. {Plate XXXIX) 



Hicbria aqitdiica. 



BITTER 



Bark: light reddish brown; rough and having scales. Buds: reddish 

 brown; flattened, the terminal one very large. Leaves: conipound; alternate; 

 odd-pinnate, witli from seven to eleven ovate-lanceolate leaflets pointed at the 

 apex and rounded or wedge-shaped at the base ; serrate ; dark green above, 

 brown and lustrous below and pubescent. Staviinatc Jicnvers : growing in 

 long, slender catkins and produced from separate or leaf-bearing buds. Pisfil- 

 late Jlmvers : ojjlong and covered witli pubescence. Fruit : growing in clus- 

 ters of a few, with a greenish, thin husk which splits into four sections. Nut : 

 darkly-coloured ; four-angled; rough and flattened, and having a thin shell. 

 Kernel : bitter ; puckery to the taste. 



Away from the swamps this tree is seldom seen growing in 

 the full prime of its beauty, but when there, even although it 

 is a small tree, it has about it the same picturesqueness and 

 freshness that is associated with the genus. Its fondness truly 

 is for low country. Often the river swan^ps in which it seeks 

 its home are inundated during part of the year, and for this 

 reason it is difficult of access when its timber is desired. It 

 would seem, however, as though the commercial instinct might 

 be sacrificed rather than take it away from places to which it 

 adds so sylvan a charm, especially as its dark brown wood 

 is of less value than that of any other one of the hickories. 

 Although closely grained and compact it is very brittle and is 

 used for little else than fuel and fences. Once having seen the 

 fruit of the tree it cannot readily be mistaken; for the dusky, 

 flattened and rough shell is ver" distinctive. 



ASH-LEAVED flAPLE. BOX ELDER. 



Acer Negiindo. 



{Plate XL.) 



Bark oi branchlets : greenish brown; ridged. T',oii:[s : pea-green. Leaves: 

 compound ; opposite, with long, slender stalks ; odd-pinnate, with three, five 



