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742 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Synonyme. Juglans myristicef6rinis Micha. Arb. 1. p. 211. 
Engravings. Michx. Arb.,1.t.10.; North Amer. Sylva, t. 39.3 and our fig. 1429. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaflets, in a leaf, 9; 
ovate-acuminate, serrate, glabrous ; the 
terminal one nearly sessile. Fruit 
ovate, roughish. Nut oval, with a 
small point at each end, even, brown 
with longitudinal lines of white; in 
which it resembles a nutmeg, which 
is the seed of Myristica moschata ; 
and hence the epithet myristiceeférmis. 
(Miche.) A large deciduous tree. 
South Carolina. 
Very little is known of this tree, 
which Michaux described from a branch and a handful of nuts, which were 
given to him by a gardener at Charleston. 
1429, C. myristiceférmis. 
#9. C. microca’rpa Nutt. The small-fruited Carya, or Hickory. 
Identification. Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. Pl., 2. p. 221. 
Engraving. Our fig. 1430. from a specimen in the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes, at Paris. 
Spec. Char. &c. Leaflets, ina leaf, about 5; oblong-lanceolate, conspicuously 
acuminate, argutely serrulate, glabrous ; glandular beneath ; terminal one 
subpetiolate. Fruit subglo- 
bose. Husk thin. Nut partly 
quadrangular, small; its shell 
rather thin, its mucro obso- 
lete and truncate. Fruit 
much like that of C. tomen- 
tosa, and eatable; but very 
small, the nut not exceed- 
ing the size of a nutmeg. 
Catkins trifid, very long, gla- 
brous, without involucre ; 
scales 3-parted, their lateral 
segments ovate, the central 
one linear. Anthers pilose, 
mostly 4, sometimes 3, some- 
times 5. Female flowers 2 
or 3 together ; common pe- 
duncle  bracteolate. Seg- 
ments of the calyx very long, 
and somewhat leafy. Stigma 
sessile, discoid, 4-lobed, some- 
what rhomboidal. (Nuttall) 
Alarge deciduous tree. Phi- 
ladelphia, on the banks of the 1439. C. microcirpa. 
Schuylkill. 
Other Species of Carya.— C. ambigua (Jiglans ambigua Miche.) is de- 
scribed in books, but not yet introduced ; C. pubéscens Link is supposed to 
have been introduced ; and C. rigida (J. rigida Lodd. Cat.) is in the Hackney 
Arboretum, but appears to be only a variety of C. alba. C. integrifolius 
Spreng. (Hicorius integrifolius Rafinesque) is probably an imaginary species. 
From the circumstance of the species of Jtglans and Carya crossing so freely 
with one another, and the seeds of the produce coming true to the cross- 
breeds thus produced, it is not unlikely that some of the species, even of the 
native woods of America, may have been so originated. The fact stated in 
p- 733. respecting a hybrid between Juglans régia and J. nigra would seem to 
justify these remarks. 
