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thin, dividing at maturity down to the base ; nut thin- 

 shelled, four-angled ; kernel much wrinkled and very 

 bitter. This is closely allied to if not a more Southern 

 form of our common bittemut. A small tree in swamps 

 and river bottoms from North Carolina south to Florida, 

 and west to Texas. 

 Synonyms : 



Juglans aquatica, Michaux. 

 Hicorius integrifolia, Eafinesque. 

 Carya aquatica, Nuttall. 

 Garya integrifolia, Sprengel. 



Varieties of the Hickories. — Every one who 

 has ever had occasion to gather or examine hickory nuts 

 in the forest, or has seen them in market, must be aware 

 of the fact that there is an almost endless variety of each 

 and all the different species. But as it 

 is only the varieties of the pecan and 

 thick- and thin-shelled shagbark hicko- 

 1 ies that are likely to be of any economic 

 ■value to the nut cultur- 

 1 it, all others will be omit- 

 ted. Of the first or pecan 

 nut the natural varieties i 

 are not only exceedingly! 

 numerous, but vary wide- \ 

 1 jT in size, form, thickness 

 of shell, and productive- 

 ness of the individual 

 trees. In some the nuts 

 are produced singly or in pairs, and from this number 

 up to clusters of seven or eight; these large-clustered 

 and extra-prolific varieties are most worthy of special 

 attention, especially when the nuts are of good size and 

 thin-shelled, as in the large, long pecan (Fig. 53). From 

 this size they vary, as shown in Figs. 53, 54, 55. Some 

 of the wild varieties have received local names, and a 



FIG. 52. LARGE, 

 LONG PECAN NUT 



FIG. 53. OVAL 

 PECAN NUT. 



