18 WOODY PLANTS OF MANHATTAN 



upper globose, 2 or 3 mm. long; scales downy. Common in lowland 

 woods. 



41 HICORIA, Rami. PI. Ludov. 1817. Carya, Nntt. Gen. 1818. 



Bud scales two, valvate, yellow H. minima . 



End scales several, brown H. ovata. 



II. ovata, (Mill.) Britt. Bull. Torr. Club, xv, 1888. Juglans ovata, 

 Mill. Diet 1768. Carya alba, Nutt. 1. c. 1818. Shellbark Hickory. 



A large tree with rather large, dark chocolate, glabrous twigs, large, 

 eight-ranked, circular to heart-shaped leaf-scars, three areas of bundle- 

 scars and large terminal buds Lateral buds single, small, obtuse, strongly 

 divergent; terminal elliptical or lanceolate; scales acuminate, the inner 

 pubescent above. Along the bluffs below Manhattan, on the south side of 

 the Kansas river. 



II. minima, (Marsh.) Britt 1 c. Juglans alba minima, Marsh. Arb. 178-5. 

 Carya amara, Nutt. Gen. 1818. Pignut Hickory. 



A small tree with yellowish-gray, smooth twigs, sprinkled with waxy 

 atoms, especially above, as are the bud scales; five-ranked, heart-shaped 

 leaf-scars, bundle-scars aggregated in about three areas and narrow, 

 acute, curved terminal buds with waxy- yellow scales. Lateral buds two 

 or three superposed, the upper frequently long stalked. Common. 



42 CORYLUS, Tourn. Inst. 1700; L. Spec. 1753. 



C. Americana, Walt. PI. 1788. Hazel-nut. 



A shrub with light brown or yellowish-drab, pubescent or glabrescent 

 twigs, two-ranked, crescent or oval leaf-scars, scattered bundle-scars and 

 conspicuous stipule-scars Buds flattened, rounded, scales several, 

 rounded, upper pubescent. Next year's catkins conspicuous. Said to 

 occur ten miles northeast of Manhattan (S. C. Mason.) 



43 OSTRTA, Mich. Nov. Gen. 1722; Scop. Cam. ii. 1772. 



O. Vikginiana, (Mill ) Koch, Dendr. ii. 2. 1869 73. Carpinus Virgin- 

 iana, Mill. Diet. 1768. Iron-wood. 



A small tree with twisted bark, brown or gray, softly pubescent or 

 glabrescent twigs, small semi-oval or arcuate, slightly oblique, two- 

 ranked leaf-scars, three bundle-scars and unequal stipule-scars. Ends 

 conical, pointed, divergent, 5 or 6 mm. long; scales several, pubescent. 

 Next year's catkins usually present. Frequent in upland woods. 



44 QUERCUS, Tourn. Inst. 1700; L. Spec. 1753. 



Pith five-angled; twigs five-ridged from the angles of the semicircu- 

 lar, five-ranked leaf-scars; bundle-scars several, scattered; stipule scars 

 small, often inconspicuous; upper lateral buds clustered at apex of twig. 

 Ends rounded, about as high as wide. 



( Uabrous Q. prinoides. 



Pubescent ... Q. macrocarpa. 



