234 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [SEPTEMBER 
C. myristicaeformis are sweet and edible, like the seeds of Eucarya. 
Nowhere common and very local in distribution, the nutmeg 
hickory has recently been found on the bluffs of the Yazoo River 
near Yazoo City, Mississippi, in Richmond Parish in northern 
Louisiana, at Natchitoches on the Red River in western Louisiana, 
at Beaumont on the Nueces River in Texas, and at Hugo in Choc- 
taw County, Oklahoma. 
6. Carya ovata Koch.—The shagbark hickory shows that little 
reliance can be placed on pubescence as a specific character in this 
genus, for individual trees have glabrous or pubescent branchlets 
and glabrous or pubescent leaflets, the two forms often growing 
together, so that this variation is not dependent on soil or climate, 
although pubescent individuals are more common in the south than 
in the north. On some trees the anthers are red and on others 
yellow. As it is found from the neighborhood of Montreal in the 
Province of Quebec to southern Minnesota, C. ovata grows farther 
north than the other species of the genus with the exception of 
C. cordiformis. Westward it ranges to southeastern Nebraska — 
eastern Kansas, and eastern Oklahoma. In North and South 
Carolina it is confined to the Piedmont region, and on the mountains 
is replaced by C. ovalis. In Georgia I have seen it only on Shell 
Bluff on the Savannah River, below Augusta, near Eatonton, 
Putnam County, and at Rome, Floyd County. I have no reason 
to believe that this tree grows in Florida; and from Alabama I have 
seen specimens only from Valley Head, Dekalb County, and from 
the neighborhood of Selma, Dallas County, although Mour credits 
it to the “Tennessee valley mountain region upper division of the 
Coast Pine belt.” From Mississippi I have seen specimens only 
from the east central part of the state (Columbus, Starkville, and 
Brookville), where it is common in its most pubescent form. It 
has not been found in eastern Louisiana, but it is common in the 
western part of that state and in southern Arkansas, but is rare 
in eastern Texas to the valley of the Trinity River. The common 
form of the fruit is short-oblong to subglobose and depressed at 
apex, and the nut is then rounded, truncate, or slightly obcordate 
at apex. The fruit, however, varies considerably in size and 
shape, and a small-fruited form has been described as var. Nutallit 
