404 XE^V EXGLAXD TREES IX AVIXTER. 



MOCKERNUT 



Big Bud Hickory, White-heart Hickory. 

 Carya alba (L.) K. Koch. 



C. toDientosa Nutt. ; Iliclxoria alha Britton. 



HABIT — A tall tree 50-70 ft. hi.sii with trunk diameter of 2-?. ft.; 



lower branches nn.ire or less dri-niping, those alj<.i\"e asrending at a sharp 



angle, forming' a narrrav obking" or brciad round- toi'ped head, iriink 

 srmiewhat sw'jllen at base. 



BARK — Lig-ht to dark array, not shagg"y. broken by irreg-ular inter- 

 rupted fissures into shallow rounded and smuut h-ti.'pped ridges which 

 are transversely cracked at intervals; the smoothness of the furrows 

 and of the rounded ridges together with the grayness of the bark is 

 quite characteristic, giving an appearance as if the roughness of the 

 bark had been sandpapered duwn or as if a thin veil had been drawn 

 o\f r tiie trunk. 



TAA"IGS — "\'er>' stout, generally mnre or less finel>'-do^'n>'. reddish - 

 bmwn to gray. LKXTICELS — numerous, pale. rnns]Mcuous, longitudin- 

 ally elongated. lUTH — obscurely 5-puinted, slar-shaped. 



LEAF-SCARS — All ernate. nmre than 2 -ranked, similar to those of 

 Phag-bark HickMr\- liut rather tending to be nmre distinctly 3-lobed with 

 basal lobe elungaled. 



Bins — Tcrmin:tl buds pale, densely hairy, hrnadly ovate, blunt or 

 shari'-pointed. 10-20 mm. hjng. lUitHrmost scales falling in early autumn. 

 exiKising the A'ello'wish-gray silkj- inner scales, sume of \\iuch fall 

 during- the ■u" i n t e r, 



l'"'Rl IT — Si)iierii-al to ofoo-\-ate, 4-t^ cm, long, more or less narrowed at 

 the ends: husk :'.-4 mm. thiMv, splitting \.n middle or nearly to base. 

 Kl^'T — brown, variable in si;ce and shape, spherical to obtiuig, more or 

 let's flattened and an,gied and generally pointed at both ends; shell very 

 thick; seed comparatively small, sweet. 



<-03rp.VRISO\S — T-he :\,Iockernut, so named from the disappointingly 

 small kernel ohlained from the relati\-ely large nut. is distinguished 

 by its large, fat. pale, downy buds, which do not retain tl\e outer 

 dark scales as do the narrower buds of the Shag-bark Hickory. The 

 peculiar smO(..thness of the ridges and furrows of the gray bark is also 

 a distinctive characteristic. 



niSTRIIU TIOX — In various soils; woods, dry, rooky ridges, mountain 

 slopes. Niagara peninsula and westward; south to Florida, ascending- 

 o.."iOO feet in Virginia; west to Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Indian 

 Territory, and Texas. 



TX NEW KX(";i.ANr> — :\raine and A'ermont not reported; New Hamp- 

 shire — sparing^' along the coast ; Massachusetts — rather comnuui east- 

 ward ; Rhode Island — ^common. 



IN CONNECTICUT — Occasional or frequent. 



\VOOD — Ver\- heavy, hard, tough, strong, close-grained, flexible, ri'"h 

 dark brown, wit h t )-tick nearlv wliile sap wood; used for the same 

 puriM.se as tliai <>f ilo- Shag-bark Ilickorv. 



