TREES AND SHRUBS. 



CAETA BUCKLEYI, Dueakd. 



Carya Buckleyi, Durand, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1860,547 (1861). — Young, Bot. 



Texas, 500. — Munson, Am. Jour. Forestry, i. 435. 

 Carya texana, Buckley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1860, 444 (not Leconte) (1861). 



Leaves seven-foliolate, from 2 to 3 decimetres long, with slender petioles scurfy pubescent and 

 sparingly villose early in the season, soon becoming glabrous ; leaflets lanceolate to oblanceolate, 

 acuminate at the apex or the terminal leaflet sometimes broadly obovate and abruptly acuminate, 

 the lateral leaflets more or less falcate, bluntly serrate with straight or incurved teeth, sessile or the 

 terminal leaflet sometimes raised on a winged petiolule from 5 to 7 centimetres in length ; as they 

 unfold covered with small white scales and villose with long white hairs along the midribs below, 

 and at maturity dark-green and glabrous or puberulous along the midribs above, and below lus- 

 trous, yellow or brown and villose on the midribs and primary veins, and furnished with small 

 axillary tufts of pale hairs, the terminal leaflet from 1.2 to 1.5 decimetres long and from 5 to 6 

 centimetres wide, and about twice larger than the leaflets of the lowest pair. Aments of staminate 

 flowers from 5 to 6 centimetres in length, pedunculate, slightly villose, their bracts lanceolate, 

 acuminate, villose ; bracts of the flowers ovate, acuminate, slightly villose, about twice as long as 

 the villose calyx-lobes ; anthers villose above the middle ; pistillate flowers in short-stalked spikes, 

 slightly angled, thickly coated with rufous hairs, the bracts acuminate, villose, two or three times 

 larger than the bract of the flower and the calyx-lobes. Fruit subglobose to short oblong, puber- 

 ulous, from 3 to 4 centimetres in diameter, the involucre from 2 to 3 millimetres thick, splitting 

 freely to the base by slightly winged sutures ; nut only slightly compressed, rounded at the base, 

 abruptly narrowed and acute at the apex, prominently four-angled above the middle or nearly to 

 the base, dark reddish brown and conspicuously reticulate-venulose with pale veins, from 2.5 to 3.5 

 centimetres in diameter, in drying often cracking longitudinally between the angles; shell hard, 

 about 3 millimetres thick, kernel small and sweet. 



A tree usually from 10 to 15 or rarely 20 metres high, with a trunk from 3 to 6 decimetres in 

 diameter, covered with thick dark, sometimes nearly black, deeply furrowed but not scaly bark, 

 large spreading often drooping and more or less contorted branches forming a narrow head, and 

 slender light reddish branchlets marked by pale lenticels,and more or less densely pubescent during 

 their first season, becoming dark gray-brown and glabrous or nearly glabrous the following year. 

 Winter-buds ovate, brown, puberulous, covered at the apex with long pale hairs, the terminal bud 

 abruptly contracted and long-pointed at the apex, from 1 to 1.2 centimetres long and from 6 to 7 

 millimetres in diameter, and two or three times larger than the flattened acute lateral buds. Flowers 

 in April ; fruit ripens in October. 



Common on poor sandy uplands, growing with the Post Oak and the Black Jack, northern and 

 eastern Texas to southern Arkansas. Texas : near Denison, Grayson County, T. V. Munson and 

 C. S. Sargent ; Jacksonville and Larissa, Cherokee County, B. F. Bush, October, 1909 (Nos. 

 5961 & 5964); near Houston, Harris County, B. F. Bush (No. 1596). Arkansas: Fulton, 

 Hempstead County, B. F. Bush, October 4, 1909 (No. 5931). 



This tree, which is intermediate in character between the Pignuts and the Mockernuts, has been entirely overlooked 

 for many years, and the name has not appeared in any of the recent works on botany owing, perhaps, to the fact that the 

 name Carya tezana had been used by another author for an entirely different species before Buckley applied it to this 



