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2. CA’RYA, Nutt. Hickory. 
[Greek, Karya,—the ancient name of the Walnut.] 
pers ‘FL. in slender Ege aments, which are mostly in threes, 
from the bie ds Boi: th t ves. _Calya xz scale-like, yp es 3- 
cod i £ FL. in terminal 
clusters of 2 ay Cals x Aeleft ; gee poery sti, a 
with a thick leathery husk, opening ore or less Saale by 4 
valves ; nut long, smooth, somewhat 4- utce water 
often sweetish ; pith ripen ral young branches tough and pliable; 
leaflets acumi cence stellate. All flowering in May an 
ping their nuts in Octobe 
* Sced edible ; cae of the hull completely separating. 
+ Fruit oblong ; ane husk thin: bark oe the trunk not shaggy. 
L C. olivefor’mis, Nutt. Leaflets 11 —15, lanceolate and somewhat 
falcate, serrate, subsessile, ST ike terminal =< petiolulate ; fruit obovoid- 
oblong ; - reg rather thin ; nut olive-shaped, obscurely 4-angled, with 
heen iis: Pecan Hickory. paar _ 
Stem 40-50 feet high. Lea in5-Tors inet Bs lodd one, 8-6 inches 
in length, smooth, with a short roughish pubescence on oy midrib and nerves beneath. 
Fruit" to near 2 inches long ; nut witha thin frangible shell,—the kernel large. 
Wet low grounds : Western and South-western SI 
Obs. This pena is little known, in the North, except cy its very fine 
nuts,—which are even superior to those of the admired Shell-bark. 
tt Fruit ibulay, wa a very thick husk: bark of the trunk shaggy, fall- 
0 Tips. 
2. C.al’ba, Nutt. Leaflets 5, obovate-lanceolate, acuminate, sharply 
serrate ; aments reisothask fruit depressed- globose ; epicarp thick ; nut 
4-angled, eee with the shell thin. 
Waurre Carya. Shell-bark, or Shag-bark Hickory. 
Stem 60-89 feet high, with the outer bark exfoliating in long scales or plates, which 
generally adhere in the sniddiagaehtle one.or both ends are detached and elevated, making 
the surface very rough 8 2 iflets mostly in 2 pairs with a terminal odd one, 
bide the shell thin and waseivie. 
; s , &c. New England to Carolina, 
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a thinner ep Pp, quality. 
