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A single tree in the Riverview Cemetery, Rochester, New York, //. B. Brown, October 11, 1912, Brown, Dunbar and Sargent, 

 October 16, 1912. 



In the shape of the terminal winter-buds, the width of the leaflets, in the shape of the fruit with its winged sutures and in the 



for with the thin shell of the Bitternut it has the large and sweet seed of the Shagbark Hickory, and as the shell is so thin the 

 seed is even larger than that usually produced by that tree. It i 

 have been found, and if the tree I 



; tree the name of C. C. Laney, the superintendent of the parks of tlu> city of 

 Rochester, who for many years has successfully and actively stimulated the study of the trees, especially the Hickories, of w. -stern 

 New York. The remarkable quality of the nute of this tree was noticed several years ago by Mr. H. B. Brown, the Engineer 

 of the Park Department at Rochester, who had been in the habit of gathering them for family use. 



Carya Laxeyi, var. Chatkacgaykxsis, n. hyh. 



Leaves seven-foliate, from 1.5 to 2 

 acuminate, finely serrate with straight or incurved teeth, 

 late, the lateral nearly sessile, often slightly falcate, and 



reddish brown, puberulous, marked by 



yellow scurfy pubescence, the involucre about three millimetres in diameter and splitting freely ko the base or 

 the middle ; nut compressed, oblong, angled to the middle and sometimes nearly to the base, abruptly narrowed and acute at the 

 apex, rounded at the base, from 2 to '2.2 centimetres long and wide and from 1.7 to IS centimetres thick with walls about 2 milli- 

 metres in thickness and a bitter seed. 



A tree, about 12 metres high, with a trunk from 3 to 4 decimetres in diameter, covered with pale close or slightly scaly bark, 

 and stout glabrous branchlets light reddish or yellow-brown and marked by many small pale 1. nti.els in their first winter, 

 becoming dark gray-brown in theirsecond year. Terminal buds ovate, acuminate, from 1.2 to 1.1 centimetres long, and covered 

 with numerous imbricated pale gray puberulous scales; axillary buds solitary, sessile, compr. and, round, d or acute at the apex, 

 yellow-brown, sometimes yellow-pubescent near the base, the outer scales valvate. tbOM of the inner ranks imbricated. 



A single tree growing in dense shade with Carya COrdtfbrmU and ( brja orata on the shores of I-akc St. Louis of the St. Law- 

 rence River at Chateaugay, near the mouth of the Chateaugay River, Province of Quebec, J. G. Jack, May 24, 1894, August 20, 

 1902, May 17, 1911. 



This tree resembles the Bitternut in the number of the leaflets and in their shape, thinness and color. The fruit is larger than 

 that of the Bitternut with a thicker involucre, and the yellow scurfy pub, scene." of that species is only slightly developed and 

 usually only near the base. It is rounded or pointed and not, like tlie fruit of the common hm of the Shagbark, at all depressed 



branchlets are paler than those of the Shellbark, and lateral branchlets in their first winter are often nearly as yellow as those 



although shorter, broader and more rounded at the :i|«-x than those of the Bitternut, have valvate outer scales and are often 

 yellowish and covered near the base by the yellow scurfy pubescence which is found on the buds ,.f that -p, ,-i. s. t . S. .v 



