WALNUT FAMILY 
hairy bract, is one-fourth inch long, bright yellow green, slightly 
hairy, usually six-lobed, the side lobes bearing tufts of brown hairs. 
Stamens from eight to twelve, with nearly sessile dark brown an- 
thers, surmounted by darker connectives. Pistillate flowers are 
borne in six to eight-flowered spikes ; one-third of an inch long, ma- 
turing later than the staminate. The bract and bractlets which 
form the outer covering of the flowers are coated with white or pink 
glandular hairs; bract limear and acute ; bractlets ovate, acute or 
laciniate ; calyx four-lobed ; lobes imbricate, linear, hairy ; styles 
two; stigmas two, fringed, spreading, bright red, half an inch long. 
Ovary inferior, ovule solitary. 
Fruit.—Nut closed in an indehiscent involucre, making a kind of 
dry drupe. Three or five often ripen on one branch. Cylindrical, 
obscurely two to four-ridged, ovate-oblong, pointed, coated with 
rusty clammy hairs, one-half to two and one-half inches long. Nut 
is brown, ovate, acute at apex, deeply sculptured and rough with 
ragged ridges, two-celled at base. Kernel sweet and pleasant but 
very oily and soon becomes rancid. Cotyledons ovate-oblong. 
The Butternut when young much resembles the Black Wal- 
nut. It is, perhaps, more generally distributed. The form of 
the fruit differs greatly from that of the Black Walnut, being 
oblong, 
is covered with a sticky gum and when green is used domes- 
oval, and narrowed toa point at the end. The husk 
tically to dye a dull yellow. ‘The surface of the nut is much 
rougher than that of any other of the walnut genus. The 
bark is lighter gray than that of the Black Walnut, and the 
ridges are very much broader. The leaves are very similar 
in general appearance, but the petiole of the Butternut leaf 
is covered with clammy hairs as are the young branchlets. 
HICKORY 
Fflicoria,  Carya. 
The name Carya was applied by the Greeks to the common walnut, in honor 
of Carya, daughter of Dion, King of Laconia, who was changed by Bacchus into 
that tree. Diana had the surname of Caryata from the town of Carya in La- 
conia where her rites we ‘ : 
e always celebrated in the open air under the shade of 
a walnut tree. Plutarch says the name of Carya was applied to the walnut tree 
from the effect of the smell of the leaves on the head. 
—Loubon. 
Hickory is derived from the Indian name of the liquor obtained by pound- 
ing the kernels. These the Indians beat into pieces with stones and putting them, 
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