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4. Jug LANS alba acuminata, Long^ Jharp-fruited 



Hickcry "Tree. 



This tree grows to the height of forty or fifty 

 feet, and to eighteen inches or two feet in diameter. 

 The leaves are generally compofed of three or four 

 pair of lobes and an odd one. The nuts with their 

 covers are about two inches in length and above one 

 in diameter. The covers, or hulls, generally open 

 into four parts, difclofing their nuts, which are 

 white, hard and thick fhelPd, having feams oppo- 

 fite the divifions of their hulls. Th-e kernel is fmall 

 and not very fweet. 



5. JuGLANS alba minima. White ^ or Pig-nut Hickery. 



This j^enerally grows pretty large, fometimes to 

 the height of eighty feet or more, and above two 

 feet in diameter. The bark of young trees is fmooth, 

 but when older becomes rough and furrowed. The 

 leaves are generally compofed of five pair of lobes 

 and an odd one, which are moftly narrower than 

 thofe of many other kinds. The fruit is fmall and 

 roundifli, and covered with a yery thin hufk or co- 

 vering, opening in divifions. The fliell of the nut 

 is alfo very thin, and eafily cracked with the teeth; 

 the kernel plump and full but very bitter. The 

 timber of this is not much efteemed. 



6. JuGLANs alba odorata. Balfam Hickery. 



This tree grows as large as the Pig-nut Hickery, 

 and much like it in appearance. The nuts are fmall, 

 round, and thin fheird. the kernel fweet. The 

 branches are flender and flexible. There is, I think, 

 a variety of this, with a rougher furrowed bark, 

 bearing broader leaves and larger nuts, having 



thicker 



