JUGLANDACEAE 
Small Pignuat Hickory 
Carya microcarpa Nuit. [Hicoria odorata (Marsh.) Sarg.] 
[Hicoria microcarpa (Nutt.) Britt.] [Hicoria 
glabra, v. odorata Sarg.] 
HABIT.—A tree usually 50-70 feet ‘thigh, with a trunk diam- 
eter of 1-3 feet; forming an oblong or sometimes rounded crown 
of slender, spreading branches. 
LEAVES.—Alternate, compound, 8-12 inches long. Leaflets 
usually 5-7, the upper 3-6 inches long, 2-2%4 inches broad; sessile, 
except the terminal; oblong to ovate-lanceolate, long-pointed; 
sharply serrate; thick and firm; glabrous, dark yellow-green 
above, lighter beneath. Petioles long, glabrous. Foliage fragrant 
when crushed. 
FLOWERS.—May, after the leaves; monoecious; the stam- 
inate in pendulous, ternate catkins 3-7 inches long, slender, green- 
ish, glabrous; stamens 4, with orange anthers; the pistillate in 
2-5-flowered spikes, 14 inch long; calyx 4-toothed, hairy; corolla 
0; stigmas 2, yellow. 
FRUIT.—September ; subglobose or globose-oblong, less than 
I inch long, with thin husk splitting nearly to the base; nut 
obscurely 4-ridged, with thin shell and small, sweet kernel. 
WINTER-BUDS.—%-% inch long, dome-shaped, red-brown, 
smooth. 
BARK.--Twigs greenish, long-hairy, becoming reddish and 
finally gray; thick, hard and grayish on the trunk, divided by 
shallow fissures into narrow plates, and more or less shaggy. 
WOOD.—Heavy, hard, strong, tough, close-grained, elastic, 
dark brown, with thick, whitish sapwood. 
DISTRIBUTION.—Confined to the most southern portions 
of the Lower Peninsula. 
HABITAT.—Prefers well-drained slopes and hillsides. 
NOTES.—Resembles C. glabra, but the nut is much smaller. 
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