


MONOECIA, POLYANDRIA. 
8. C. folioles 5, large, on long petioles, ovate-acu- 
minate, serrated, villous beneath, the odd one 
sessile; masculine aments compound, glabrous 
and filiform: fruit globose, depressed, large : 
nut compressed, whitish.—Mich. f- 
Juglans squamosa, Mich. f. 
J. compressa, Geert., Willd. ; and Muhl. in nov. 
act. soc. nat. scrut. berol. 3. p. 390. 
J. alba, Mich. fl. Am. and Pursh. 
Icon. Mich. f. Arbr. forest. 1. +t. 7. 
Shell-bark Hickory. Shagg-bark Hickory. Scaly- 
bark Hickory. 
The common shell-bark nuts which are so well-known and 
so highly esteemed, are the fruit of this tree. In all our woods, 
frequent. hk. April. 
leaflets about 5, oblong-lanceolate; sharply serru- 
late, and conspicuously acuminate, on both 
sides smooth, beneath glandular, terminal leaf- 
let subpetiolate ; fruit subglobose, pericarp thin ; 
nut partly quadrangular, small and rather thin 
shelled, mucro obsolete, truncate.—NWVult. 
Juglans compressa, «. microcarpa, Muil. 
Carya microcarpa, Nutt. 
On the banks of the Schuylkill, on the road to the falls. 
_ This is rather a variety of No. 2, as Muhl. considered it, than 
a distinct species, as it is made by Mr. Nuttall. h. May. 
4. C. folioles 7-9 pairs, slightly serrated, conspi- 
cuously villous beneath, the odd one sub-petio- 
late ; aments compound, very long, filiform, re- 
markably tomentose ; fruit globose or oblong ; nut 
quadrangular, thick and very hard.—Mich. f. 
Juglans alba, Willd. 
Icon. Mich. f. Arbr. forest. 1. p. 186. t. 6. 
Common Hickory. Mocker-nut Hickory. White- 
heart Hickory. 
This is the commonest species in our neighbourhood. The 
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squamosa. 
@ microcarpa. 
tomentosa, 
