( io3) 



medicinal properties and the outer bark yields a good sugar. 

 (Plate 134.) 



Black Walnut Juglans nigra 



Closely related, botanically, to the butternut is the black 

 walnut. It is taller than the former, frequently reaching a 

 height of 130 feet. The bark is coarse and prominently 

 ridged; and it is a darker brown than in the butternut. The 

 leaflets on the black walnut are more numerous, frequently 

 exceeding 20 to a single common leaf-stalk. They are un- 

 equal at the base, practically stalkless, and their margins are 

 sharply small-toothed. 



As in the butternut the flowers are arranged in catkins or 

 in spike-like clusters. Those which subsequently develop the 

 fruits are yellowish-green tinged with red. Unlike the but- 

 ternut the fruit of the black walnut is never 4-angled or 

 ribbed. It is almost perfectly round, the shell slightly 

 sculptured, and covered with a thick husk. 



The wood of the black walnut has become famous for its 

 beautiful markings, the so-called figured trees being of almost 

 fabulous value for the manufacture of furniture. Extensive 

 forests of it once flourished throughout the eastern part of 

 the United States, but it is now comparatively scarce. It 

 grows in the vicinity of West Point and in the Highlands 

 generally, southward to Staten Island, but it is less common 

 than formerly. 



Mocker-Nut Hickory Hicoria alba 



In the autumn the mocker-nut will be found retaining its 

 foliage longer than most other hickories. It is a tall tree, 

 often reaching a height of 90 feet, and a trunk diameter of 

 3 feet. The trunk is usually continuous in the forest, but 

 branched and forked when the tree grows in the open. The 

 irregularly fissured close bark is characteristic and serves to 

 distinguish it from the shag-bark hickories, where the bark is 

 regularly fissured and splits off in large plates. 



In the mocker-nut, as in all hickories, the leaves are com- 



