M0X0EC1A MOXADELPHIA 547 



iho, J« obcordata. lVilld. 1. c. Per*. I. c. Lindl U c. 

 *J!so, J. pyritbrmis. Muhl. I. c. 



J. porcina. Purs/i, Am. 2. /;. 638. Mx.f. St/lva, Up. 19-1 (Icos, 

 tab. 38.). 

 Hoe Carta. Vtdgd — Pig-nut Hickory. Broom Hickory. 



Stem -10 to 60 or 70 feet high, and 1 to 2 feet in diameter, with a close bark ami 

 numerous tough branches. Leaflets usually in 3 pairs (but not unfreqnently in 2 

 or \ pairs), with a terminal odd one, 2 or 3 to 5 or 6 inches long, and 1 to 2 inches 

 wide, varying from ovate-lanceolate to oblong- and obovate-Ianceolate, acuminata, 

 serrate, generally smooth on both sides, sometimes a little pubescent beneath, and 

 sprinkled with minute purple particles,— the lateral leaflets sessile, the terminal 

 one tapering and acute at base, subsessile, or on a very short petiole ; common 

 petioles 3 to 6 or 7 inches long, smooth. Amcnts tcrnate, or in pairs, 2 to 4 or 5 

 inches long, slender and filiform, smooth ish, bractcate at base ; scales trifid, 

 segments lanceolate, the middle one rather longer than the others, acuminate ; 

 anthers conspicuously hairy. Pistillate Jhnccrs terminal, solitary, or 2 or 3 ses- 

 sile, and rather distant, on a common peduncle ; segments of the perianth long", 

 linear-lanceolate; ovary scarcely pubescent. FYuU rather small (about an inch 

 long), subglobose, or obovoid,— the obovoid variety often a little compressed, and 

 retuse, or obcordate ; pericarp thin, opening partially by 1 valves; nut smooth 

 and even, the shell often hard, but sometimes thin and easily cracked ; the kernel 

 often astringent and bitter, sometimes esculent. 



Uub. Low, moist woodlands : frequent. Fl. May. Fr. October. 



Obs. The young saplings, of this species, were formerly much used for making 

 splint brooms; and the tough sprouts, or seedling plants arc often employed as 

 ligatures, in rural economy, under the name of hickory icithes. The trood. of the 

 full grown tree, is used by Wheelwrights for making axles of carts and wagons ; 

 and like that of all the species, is much esteemed for fuel. I am disposed to think 

 that the C. amara, of my Catalogue, is nothing more than a variety of this. In 

 fact, I have found the varieties so numerous, and so perplexing, that I am not well 

 satisfied with the result of my examination of this genus; and therefore commend 

 it to the attention of future observers. I find that mere detached specimens, in 

 flnvcr, or with young fruit, will not serve to determine the true character of the 

 trees. The mature, or, at least, the full-grown fruit, oujht to be examined in con- 

 nection with the features of the entire plant. Four or five additional species are 

 enumerated in the U. States. 



Order 8. IVIonadclpItia. 



438. PINUS. L. jXutt. Gen. 765. 

 [Supposed from the Celtic, Pin, orPen, a rocky mountain; often its place of growth.] 



Stamixatk Fl. in raccmosely clustered Amcnts ; scales peltate, each 

 bearing 2 sessile I -celled anthers. Pistillatk Fl. in ovoid Amenta; 

 scales closely imbricated, 2-flovvercd, enlarging and becoming woody, 

 forming a cone. J\*ut winged at summit, covered by the oblong imbri- 

 cated scales of the cone* 



Trees: Leaves very narrow and linear, solitary, or fasciculate, mostly sempcr- 

 tirent; araents lateral and terminal, conglomerate, the pistillate ones becoming 

 woody cones. Nat. Ord. 228. Lindl. Conipsrjb. 



