shell is much thicker than that of the Webb City tr». In spite of 



to tbis new variety. 



Carta alba, var. subcoriacea, n. rar. 



Leaflets subcoriaceous, densely stellate-pubescent on the lower » 

 through the season, with long white hairs on the lower side of the n 

 the upper pair often from 1.8 to 2 decimetres long and from 8 to 9 < 

 from 7 to 8 millimetres tin. k. splitting freely to the base ; nnt oi 

 at the apex, and rounded at the broad base or abruptly narrowed at 



Coast of Virginia and southern Missouri southward to Florida an 



the apex and occasionally from 2.3 to 3 centimetres long, from 1.6 to 2.4 centimetres wide, and from 1 to 1.6 centimetres thick. 



A large tree, with bark separating in loose plates, and slender glabrous or puberulous branchea. 



New York, not rare : near Conesus Lake, Livingstone County,/. Dunbar, Sept. >mb. r 1 1. l'.M 1. April 17 ami .lm. 

 29, type), September 13, 1911 (Nos. 1 and 25); Mt. Morris, Livingstone Countv. ./. Dm**, Btftomber in, l'.M 

 58); Macedon, Wayne County, B. H. Slavin, September, 1911 (Nos. 61 and 08) ; In.li.ni K.n.t. i 



September 13, 1911 (Nos. 3, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 25-28); Canandaigua, Ontario ( '..unty. /■ //. >.-»>-,%, ft yU mber 20, 1911 

 (Nos. 80, 83, 85, 86); Rochester, Munroe County, B.H. Slavin, September, 1911 (Nos. 61, in.). 



This variety has smaller fruit than the common forms of Carya I 

 The involucre is softer and more spongy, a character which disappears in drying, 

 variations in shape found in those of the Shagbark. The t 

 common forms of the species, but the buds are generally 



Carya miarocarpa, Nuttall, Silra N. Am. i 



I suggest this name for the small-fruited | 



although the description in his Silva perhaps 



b in its fruit of all Hick- 

 ory 1 treeV. 1, It is one of the tallest of the species too, sometimes reaching a height of at least thirty-five metres, with a trunk often 

 one metre in diameter and covered with pale pay 1 ark. sometimes but not always separating into small plate-like scales, small 

 branches forming a narrow pyramidal head, slender branchlets scurfy-pubescent when they first appear and ovate obtuse or acute 

 winter-buds from 5 to 10 millimetres long. The leaves are five- or rarely seven-foliolate with slender petioles often scurfy. 

 pubescent early in the season or glabrous, and the leaflets are lanceolate to oblanceolate, long-pointed and acuminate at the apex, 

 cuneate and unsymmetrical at the base, finely serrate, scurfy-pubescent and often furnished early in the season with small axil- 



lary tufts c 



t or short-petiolulate, the t 



shape of the fruit and in t 



i all . 



splits freely t 



i and the seed, although small, i 



