88 ECONOMIC BOTANY OF ALABAMA 



1 B. I^airlv cominon in rich woods and on limestone outcrops, making 

 perhaps one percent of the forest at the present time. 



2B. Rich woods about two miles west of Oakman, Walker County. 



3. Frequent in rich woods or around limestone outcrops in most of the 

 counties, but not abundant. Makes less than one percent of the present 

 forest. 



7. Said by Dr. Mohr to have once been common in the black belt, 

 but I have noted it in only a few places, such as near House Bluff, Marion 

 June' ion and in Macon County. Prof. Cocks reported it from Dallas 

 County. 



8. Between Minters and Snow Hill station, in Dallas or Wilcox 

 County. 



low. Rich calcareous woods in northeastern Wilcox County. 

 11. Rich calcareous w^oods near Suggsville and Salt Creek, Clarke 

 County. 



Juglans cinerea, L. White Walnut, or Butternut. 



A tree very similar to the preceding, except that the wood is 

 paler, the trtiit is ol)long instead of spherical, and the leaves and 

 hulls are sticky. 



The inner bark of the root has cathartic properties, and it is 

 also used for dyeing. The nuts are edible, and in the North they 

 are sometimes made into pickles while young and soft. The tree 

 is often planted for ornament, like the preceding. 



This grows in much the same sort of soils as the black walnut, 

 but is much rarer in Alabama, its center of distribution being 

 farther north. Dr. Mohr reports it as having been found in Lime- 

 stone County by Dr. Smith and in Winston County by himself, and 

 I have seen what I took to be it once or twice in Blount. 



HICORIA, Raf. {Carya. Xutt.) The Hickores and Pecan.s. 



Trees, with alternate compound deciduous leaves. About a 

 dozen species and several varieties have been reported from Ala- 

 bama, but some of them are still imperfectly understood, and not 

 easily identified. As a group they are among our commonest 

 trees, one or more of them being foimd in every region, on a 

 consideral)le variety of soils, but rather avoiding the richest and 

 poorest. The flowers come out with the leaves in spring, and 

 the nuts ripen in the fall of the same year. 



Nearly all the hickories have tough elastic wood, useful for 

 spokes, handles, hoops, buggy shafts, golf sticks, ladder rounds, 

 bows and arrows, whips, etc. It is seldom sawed into lumber, but 

 it makes good fuel, and the smoke of the wood (often made from 

 sawdust) is used for smoking meat. Most of the species have 



