with a yellow scurfy pubescence; husk about 1.5 mm. fl/16 inch) 

 thick, tardily separating to about the middle; nut ovoid, ()l)lons or 

 obovoid, slightly flattened, often as wide or wider than long, 

 depressed or obcordate with a short or long point at the apex, ovoid 

 at the base, smooth; shell very thin and brittle; kernel very bitter. 

 This hickory can easily be distinguished from all the other species 

 either in winter or summer by its yellow bud scales. 



Distribution. Quebec to Minnesota, south to the Gulf States and 

 west to Texas. Found throughout Indiana, but nowhere abund- 

 ant. It is more or less frequent in rich soil along streams and in 

 moist rich woods. Usually associated with the shellbark hickory, 

 burr oak and ash. 



The published records of the distribution are as follows: Car- 

 roll (Thompson); Delaware, Jay, Randolph and Wayne (Phinney); 

 Fountain (Brown); Franklin (Meyncke); Gibson (Schneck); Ham- 

 ilton (Wilson) ; Knox (Ridgway) ; Marion (Wilson) ; Noble (Van 

 Gorder); Parke (Hobbs); Posey (Schneck); Steuben (Eradner); 

 Vigo (Blatchley); Wayne (Petry and Markle). 



Additional records are : Monroe (Blatchley) ; Montgomery 

 (Thompson); Posey (MacDougal and Wright); Putnam (Grimes); 

 Tippecanoe (Coulter); Adams, Delaware, Hamilton, Jennings, 

 Knox, Montgomery, Owen, Vermillion, Warren and Wells (Deam). 



Economic uses. Wood heavy, very hard, strong, tough, close- 

 grained and dark brown, the sap wood white, about IJ^ inches 

 thick at 25 years of age. It is used principally in the manufacture 

 of vehicles, furnishing the spokes, rims, poles, shafts, single and 

 double trees. It is also used for fuel. 



3. Hicoria ovata (Miller) Britton. Shellbark Hickory. 

 ScALYBARK HiCKORY. Red Hickory. (Cavi/a ovata (Miller) K. 

 Koch.) Plate 28. Bark of trunk separating in thin, long, flat 

 plates, light gray, sometimes rather dark; twigs at first covered 

 with hairs, becoming smooth at the end of the season or remaining 

 hairy, a reddish-brown; winter buds hairy, the terminal one ovoid, 

 blunt, about 16 mm. (^/g inch) long, the outer scales sharp-pointed, 

 dark brown, deciduous before spring, when the inner scales are 

 exposed they are a yellow green, hairy and blunt; leaves 2-3.5 dm. 

 (8-14 inches) long, main axis hairy or sometimes smooth; leaflets 

 generally 5, rarely 7, ovate to ovate-lanceolate or obovate, 10-18 

 cm. (4-7 inches) long, the lateral sessile, the terminal one obovate 

 and short stalked, wedge-shaped at the base, generally long taper- 

 pointed at the apex, margins finely serrated, when they unfold 

 covered above with yellow scales, hairy on the margins and beneath 



