LXVIL. JUGLANDA‘CEZ : CARYA. 741 
ders of swamps. Height 70 ft. to 80 ft. Introd, 1756. Flowers greenish ; 
May. Fruit with a greenish husk, enclosing a brownish nut; ripe November. 
1427. . porcina. 
Variety. . 
+ C. p. 2 gldbra. Jiglans porcina f ficiférmis Michx. Arb. i, p. 209. ; 
J, glabra JZihl.in Nov, Act. Soc. Nat. &. tii, p. 391. (Our figs. 
1426. 4, and 1428. b.) — Husk of the fruit shaped like a small fig, 
instead of being round, like the species. 
The leaves generally consist 
of three pairs of leaflets, and 
an odd one. The leaflets are 
4 or 5 inches long, acuminated, 
serrated, nearly sessile, and 
glabrous on both sides. On 
vigorous trees which grow in 
shady exposures the petiole is 
of a violet colour. The husk 
of the fruit is thin, of a beauti- 
ful green; and, when ripe, it 
opens through half.its length 
for the passage of the nut, 
which js small, smooth, and 
very hard, on account of the 
thickness of the shell. The 
kernel is sweet, but meagre, 
and difficult to extract, from 
the firmness of the partition. 
These nuts, in America, are 
never carried to market, but 
serve for food for swine, ra- ‘ 
coons, and numerous squirrels which people the forests. The wood is 
stronger and better than that of any other kind of hickory. | There were 
numerous specimens in the Bois de Boulogne in 1840, which were sown 
by Michaux fils in 1822. 
¥ 8. C.myRisticEro’ruis Nutt. The Nutmeg-like-fruited Carya, or Nutmeg 
Hickory. 
Tdentification. Nutt. Gen. Amer. Pl., 2. p. es P 
B 
1428. C. porcina. 
