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kernel is full, and, not being divided by ligneous partitions, is easily ex- 
tracted, and of an agreeable taste. The wood is coarse-grained, and, like 
that of the other hickories, is heavy and compact, possessing great strength 
and durability. The nuts are exported to the West Indies, and to the ports 
of the United States ; and Michaux considers them as more delicately flavoured 
than any of the nuts of Europe. ; 
£2.C.ama'Ra Nuit. The bitter-nué Carya, or Hickory. 
Identification. Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. Pl., 2. p, 222 
Synonymes. Jdglans amara Michz. Arb. 1. p.170.; Bitter-nut, White Hickory, Swamp Hickory, 
Amer. 
Engravings. Michx. North Amer. Sylva, 1. t. 33.; and our jig. 1420. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaflets, in a leaf, 7—9 ; ovate-oblong, acuminate, serrate 
with deep teeth, glabrous; lateral ones sessile. Sets of catkins in pairs. 
Fruit roundish-ovate, bearing, in its upper half, 4 wing-like ridges ; husk 
thin and fleshy, softening and decaying, and never becoming ligneous, as in 
the other species. Nut subglobose, broader than long, tipped with a mucro. 
Seed bitter. (ichr.) A large deciduous tree. New England to Maryland, 
in dry woods in fertile soil, on the mountains. Introduced in 1800. 
Flowers greenish; April. Fruit with a greenish husk, enclosing a white 
nut; ripe in October. 
The fruit is very small, and produced in great abundance. The husk, which 
is thin, fleshy, and surmounted on its upper half by 4 appendages in the form 
of wings, never becomes ligneous, like those of the other hickories, but softens 
1420. C. amara. 
and decays. ‘The shell is smooth, white, and thin enough to be broken with 
the fingers; the kernel is remarkable for the deep inequalities produced on 
every side by its foldings. It is so harsh and bitter, that squirrels and other 
animals will not feed upon it while any other nut is to be found. 
4 3. C. aqua’rica Nutt. The aquatic Carya, or Water Bitter-nut Hickory. 
Identification. Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. Pl., 2. p. 222. 
Synonyme. Juglans aquatica Michz. Arb. 1. p. 182. “ 
Engravings. Michx. North Amer. Sylva, t. 34.; and our figs. 1421. and 1422. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leafiets, in a leaf, 9—11; narrowly lanceolate, serrate. 
Very similar to the leaves of Pérsica vulgaris 4. ; the lateral ones sessile. 
Fruit peduncled, ovate, with 4 rather prominent ridges at the seams of the 
husk. Nut broadly oval, angular, a little depressed at the sides, roughish, 
reddish. (Michr.) A middle-sized deciduous tree. South Carolina to 
Georgia, in swamps and rice fields. Height 40 ft.to 50 ft. Introduced 
in 1800. Flowers greenish ; April. Fruit, with a green husk, enclosing a 
reddish nut; ripe in October. 
The water bitter-nut hickory is a tree with rather slender branches. Its 
lea: es are 8 or 9 inches long, and of a beautiful green : they are composed of 4 
or 5 pairs of sessile leaflets, surmounted by a petiolated odd one. The leuflets 
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