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ing glabrous and reddish-brown; winter buds ovoid, the terminal 

 one about 6 mm. long at fruiting time and about 8 mm. (3^ inch) 

 in March, scales pointed, light or reddish-brown, more or less pub- 

 escent; leaves 1.5-3 dm. (6-12 inches) long, main axis smooth or 

 nearly so; leaflets 3-9, generally 5 or 7, the lateral sessile, the termi- 

 nal short stalked, 6-15 cm. (234-6 inches) long, taper pointed at the 

 apex, hairy at first, becoming at maturity glabrous and a dark 

 yellow-green above, paler or a yellow-brown and smooth or with a 

 few hairs in the axils of the veins beneath; fruit generally obovoid, 

 varying to subglobose or elliptic, generally about 3-4 cm. (about \}/i 

 inches) long, sutures elevated, usually somewhat depressed at the 

 apex, husk rather thin, tardily separating, usually to nearly the 

 middle, sometimes merely breaking open; nut varying from obovoid 

 to elliptic, generally smooth, sometimes depressed both ways with 

 rounded angles, tapering at the base, generally rounded at the apex, 

 sometimes sharp-pointed; shell rather thick; kernel sweet or astring- 

 ent. 



The species is quite variable and some forms are found which 

 show great variation. The following is given as an example. 

 Deam's numbers 9,214 and 10,241 were taken from a tree in an 

 open dry woods on the farm of Dr. J. Gardner, about four miles 

 southwest of Bedford. The tree is about 3 dm. (12 inches) in dia- 

 meter and has long branches, drooping almost to the ground. Bark 

 of trunk nearly black, deeply fissured, the furrows about 4.5 cm. 

 (1^ inches) deep, twigs at first densely covered with hairs, rarely 

 somewhat smooth at maturity; terminal buds ovoid, rather blunt, 

 1-2 cm. (about Ys inch) long at fruiting time, outer scales decidu- 

 ous, rather blunt, reddish brown, covered with scales and densely 

 hairy, inner scales light brown and silky; leaves 2-4 dm. (8-16 inches) 

 long, main axis stout and densely covered with brown hairs even at 

 maturity; leaflets 7 or 9, lanceolate-oblong to lanceolate-obovate, 

 5-18 cm. (2-7 inches) long, firm at maturity, dark green and smooth 

 above, paler and a yellow-green below, and thickly covered with 

 brown hairs; fruit subglobose, covered with yellow scales and some- 

 what hairy, about 2.5 cm. (1 inch) long; husk rather thick, tardily 

 splitting to about the middle or below; nut globose, rounded at 

 both ends, scarcely angled; shell thick; kernel sweet. This tree 

 agrees very well with the description of variety odorata. 



Distribution. Maine west to Nebraska, south to Florida and 

 west to Texas. Found throughout Indiana. Rare or frequent in 

 the northern counties, frequent in almost all the southern counties, 

 and in cut over land in the southern counties it is often the prin- 



