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302 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
past, the trees ee at least, the branches), in the spring, appeared every- 
where to be di and dying ; but they have stillrecovered again, more 
or less passer in the course of t eros rs “ — of this phe- 
nomenon nsects, as some suppos unseasonable 
frosts, as incline to think) has not been etistactorily amet 
Orper LXVI. JUGLANDA’CE. (Watnvr Famtny.) 
with a resinous sweet or watery juice, alternate capa zens seam sige leaves, without sti- 
pues, and monecious pe mei —the staminate ones with an irregular calyx in amenis,—the 
‘illate ones with a regular $- 5- lobed calyx, adherent to the ovary, solitary or in small 
clusters. i 
drupe, with a bony endocarp (nw aa iD, containing a large 4-lobed seed, - without albwmen. 
fleshy and oily, cg lobed. 
An Order consisting ¢ chiefly f Walnuts and Hickories,—valuable for their wood and 
some of them for their frutt. 
1. JU’GLANS, L. Watnor. 
[Latin, Jovis Glans, the nut of Jupiter ; by way of eminence.] 
Aments of staminate fl. simple, cylindric, proceeding from buds without 
leaves. gs adnate _: an entire 1-flowered bract, 5 or 6-parted,—the 
ual 
membran nequal. Stam — numerous, sub le. 
Petillate Has a rl ausiey, or few and clustered. Calyx-tube ovoid 
adherent to vary,—the lim limb 4-toothed, with 4 bev petals alternat- 
Oe yi the : calyx teeth, ave? 2 vas eed Tienes 2 2, Beg oe 
» papl ria pace: 
unt —the ziaie 4 p (or hull) ait seal Abris within, Tedehievent, 
—e* y, rugose an er ularly suleate. Juice resinous-arom- 
atic; a lepasaha into transverse lamin or plates; young branches 
brittle. Trees with vege melas buds and odd-pinnate leaves of 
numerous serrate leaflet 
1. J. ru’ara, L, Leaflets oval, rather acute, smooth, nearly entire ; fruit 
roundish-oval ; nut sub-com pressed, smoothish. 
Roya Jueians. English Walnut. Madeira Nut, 
Fr. Noyer commun. Germ, Die Wallnuss. ag pores 
Stem 20-30 or 40 feet high, eee a Poe aeons hes long, ac or sometimes 
rounded and emarginate at apex, tire, ieee angled of the nerves 
beneath, in 3-5 pairs witha fatwa caging one pe lower pairs smaller. pvr’ ovoid 
oblong, 2-3 inches in verso flowers in small terminal clusters of 2-3, on @ 
rather short common  pedune a oval or oe mucronate, about 2 inches long 
smoothish riaceous : poe! 2 
pro corrugated. 
About houses : cultivated, Native of Persia. Fl. May. Fr. Oct. 
species is 
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as Tsu i nt pa ec sa = the 
